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Technology
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08.16.07Facebook and the perils of prodigious sociabilityAnother post in the series of musings about Facebook as user experience and social microcosm... The trouble with Facebook is that it's a confused social space. There are too many different facets of personality being exposed through social openness. So much so, in fact, that it gets a bit difficult to manage. For example, at present on Facebook, I have (among others) the following listed as "Friends": My husband Several people I've known since I was 11 College friends I haven't talked to in 15 years My boss A couple of people from university I'd lost touch with Several people I know from t'internet, but haven't met / ...
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08.14.07Confessions of a lifelong badgerWhen we were young, we had a shoebox, filled with badges - cheap trophies and souvenirs of places visited and events participated in, or illustrating a particular epoch or mood. From memory, there was: at least one Blue Peter badge a big one with a picture of a screw on it (the significance of which completely eluded me until I was much older) a yellow Guardian one with the slogan "have breakfast with a friend" one with the Laxey Wheel on it one from the Puffin Club a gorilla one from LondonZoo a brown one from Beamish, with a silhouette of a coal cart on it one from the ...
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08.13.07Colour-shift conundrumI've noticed that the photos which I import from my camera into Adobe Lightroom, tweak and then export, look completely different when I look at them on Flickr. I realised, in fact, that the slightly washed-out look is something to do with Firefox, rather than Flickr, because the same images in Safari retain the colours from the Lightroom versions. Here's an example of an image from that Girly One-Track photoshoot a while back, which I've loaded in both browsers, Firefox on the left and Safari on the right - the line down the middle is the OSX window shadow, because the Safari ...
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08.07.07Gonna look you up on Facebook (and poke you)*When I was at college, in Canada, I had a facebook. In fact, everyone at the college did. It was a physical thing - a slim volume handed out at the beginning of the year, containing photos and pertinent information about each student and faculty member. The photos we'd had taken in a classroom a couple of days after we arrived young, blinking and mostly jetlagged onto the campus on the western edge of Canada, photos which had been used already on student IDs and bus cards, were reprinted in the book along with the scantest of details - each person's ...
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07.21.07Convergence, babyI've just added two long-overdue links to the navigation at the top of this (and every) page: you'll now see a link to my scrapbook (on tumblr) and my photos (on flickr). I've done this by making pages in Wordpress, and using the Page Links To plugin, which allows me to auto redirect pages to external URIs. In this way, I've been able to bring my presence on these two external services - which I use all the time - to be part of the navigation on this site. Sweet! Of course, what I *really* want is a tumblr plugin, or export ...
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07.07.07Girl next doorI've noticed quite a few searches recently on this site by people looking for info about Girl With a One-Track Mind. I *think* this is because Fridaycities recently published an interview with her, illustrated by a photo I took. So, in the interests of disclosure: Girly One-Track is a friend of mine, and in April she asked me to take a series of shots of her which could be used for publicity. I whisked her down to the South Bank (stark architecture, interesting textures, interesting location which establishes her as a confident, modern, urban woman), took about 300 shots and later whittled ...
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06.25.07Complete that lyricSo, for the last few weeks, I've had a fragment of a pastiche song lyric floating in my head as I sit idly on the tube, but haven't managed to get any further with it. In the spirit of harnessing our collective wisdom/crowd-sourcing, I thought maybe you might be able to help. The tune: Coldplay's In My Place (video link) The lyrics so far:On MySpace, On MySpace Were contacts I couldn't erase Just get lost Oh yeah Well, I said I hadn't got very far. Over to you.
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06.12.07On the subject of sidebarsThe keen-eyed among you may have noticed that I've also added a little link to Moreish - my tumblog, which can be found at http://megpickard.tumblr.com/, which is a different sort of collection of stuff altogether. In the spirit of Humphrey Littleton introducing One Song To The Tune Of Another on ISHAC: if my wanderings around the web were a trip abroad, then.... ...this blog would be the wordy What I did On My Summer Holiday post-return writeup, mixed up with various fieldnotes scrawled in the margins of whatever I'd been reading beside the pool. My Flickr images would (natch) be my ...
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06.12.07Old Guard, New TricksSo, anyone who reads this site at meish.org rather than via the feed might have noticed (via the little speaking events chunk on the right hand side of this page) that I'm speaking at NMK Forum tomorrow. Actually, I'm participating in a panel in the morning, which wil explore the following burning questions:How is so-called MSM (Mainstream Media) facing up to the new wave of interest in social media? Is it absorbing social media strategies or ignoring it? What does social media mean for the bottom line of big media? And how do the social media startups view their efforts? Forum ...
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06.11.07Women, Business and Blogging. And cake.I spent last Friday at the Women, Business and Blogging conference at DMU in Leicester, at which I was giving a talk about new ways of thinking about content and publishing in the era of the social web. My presentation essentially covered the different sorts of content activities and their established and emergent forms online. This then provided a context for talking about...well, context, actually, as well as publishing models and control and the lack thereof. I wound up by talking about community, and more specifically, user engagement and community management, including the ways that communities can be nurtured and supported for growth. ...
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