The Abominable Pine Man was spotted in the vicinity on December 15, 2012. Unlike the Lock news Monster, Sasquatch, the photos of this super natural creature ares sharp, clean, and obvious no fabrication or some buffoon in a fur suit. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog In time the monster morphed […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by larskflem
Has the [quasi] exodus from Instagram to flickr already faded? After what future students of business may use in a case study of corporate idiocracy over their not so friendly terms of service. Reports suggested Instagram lost 25% of their users, but as noted by the New York Times, that data is based on users connected to Facebook, and that the big drop is reflected across many social media apps– because people are busy Christmas shopping or traveling (? really that activity seems prime for Instagramming).
And actually, if you take Google trends at face value, Instagram is still “hot”
It was rather interesting timing that flickr’s new mobile app came out at the same time as the Instagram’s TOS-gate scandal. There was a lot of fawning that the new flickr app had made headway on the huge Instagram audience by having more ease of use for posting mobile photos and filters.
Is that all?
Now the danger of wading in here is the human characteristic of generalizing to all the experience of one. I am more than guilty of that. You have a bad service experience with a company, then it becomes a broad brush applied to everyone and the obvious conclusion is that “MegaCorp sucks” or “MegaCorp #Fail” (I might interject that the one case this is always true os in reference to AT&T) (see, I just did it).
But the point is, we look at how we use a technology or a site or a service and frame it around our own experiences. We cannot avoid this, we do reside in the perspective of our own experiences.
Keep that in mind as I generalize my experience with photography and apps to everyone. Sue me.
How could anyone resist doing Tom Woodward’s Not Quite Norma Jean assignment? The past is strange. Remake this classic Marilyn Monroe “expressions sheet” with self-portraits or with the aid of a friend. Bonus points for the involvement of a stranger. And I thought, if Tom Woodward can pose coyly like Marilyn, than surely my stuffed […]
This next phase of GIFfest 2012 returns to the movies, and the westerns, with some slices of Hang ’em High, the 1968 western notable because it was the first one of Clint Eastwood’s westerns that was not filmed in Italy.
I’ve already noted GIFfed some of the continuity problems in the opening credits, now let’s get to the action. Right in the opening sceme, Captain Wilson, the leader of the mob that wrongly accuses Clintwood’s character Cooper of murder, issues the “Hang “em” command that puts the plot in motion.
Yes, that is Alan Hale Jr pitching in with the bad guys – how can the Skipper do that? What will Gilligan think?
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by @boetter The very beating, pumping heart of ds106 is, and always be, the architecture as Jim Groom metaphorized as the syndication bus (and properly attributes to a Brian Lamb comment quoting George Siemens, how far can you follow the attribution train?). For ds106, the pump that […]
Note: This should be moved over to CogDogBlog.com when the hippies hosting it turn the lights on) My latest video watching was Clint Eastwood’s western Hang “em High (1968), his first non spaghetti one. The story of the honest guy done wrong, his quest for revenge, is also played out on the balance of power […]
I am a sucker for road signs, and my rule is if it takes you more than a mile to question whether to turn around, you have gone too far. My first thought was the movie “Cannonball Run” and with the morning light at my back, thought it would work well with my truck in […]
What to GIF tonight? I was recalling a few photos I took of something in West Texas I spotted on my trip home in December. Then the lightning bolts flew, so thanks to Rowan Peter for the idea on my Who GIFs to include some Pete Townsend Windmill Powered GIFness I had a series of […]
Sure, the Oxford American Dictionary made the verb “to GIF” a word of the year, but they fell short– it should be noun, adjective, adverb, maybe even present past participle of the year, too. Yes, it’s the peak of ds106 GIFfest. And I did not even get close to sending out real holiday cards this […]
This year marks the fifth I have run my own “daily photo” project (2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008), going back to that first year when D’Arcy Norman had invited others to join along with him. The act of focusing time every day, for over these 5 years, has very much helped me improve […]
