Professional Apple MBP curser and screencasting guru Michael Pick has announced the lunch of WordPress.TV.
It’s a pleasure to see how far Michael, whom I have worked with on Tubetorial during my time for Splashpress Media, has come. From subliminal pr0n evangelist to WordPress guru. Although the ‘guru’ thing can be debated ;).
Not many things can make me go silent, but reading a post yesterday evening certainly did not help my recently increased sleep problems. Go read it yourself. Send Lisa a little prayer. Give her a minute of your time.
I’m off again, reading about one more friend probably not winning the battle with cancer just weighs too heavy on me.
Update: Luckily Lisa Lisa hasn’t given up yet still a very sad day.
Blogging. The epitome of an introverted person enjoying the living spotlights.
The internet the best thing since sliced bread and before The Fifth Element on Blu-Ray.
The will to share, the possibility to share. The ease of sharing.
The eternal chase for that special invite to a closed, private beta. The fear of missing out on the next big thing, only accessing a new service when they launch publicly.
Over the last two days I had the joy of both meeting one of my favourite photographers on flickr and helping him with a removal.
The beauty of social networking finally has come to reality: I have met someone I first met online in real life.
The irony: we only lived about 700 yards away from each other.
It was a pleasure to finally be able to connect the virtual world with reality.
Sadly my thighs and legs don’t agree though. :)
But now, I’m back online.
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What Does Flickr Need
As Andy and I were chilling tonight after a couple of really hectic days, chilling in the beer garden with some pints of cider, obviously flickr soon became the main topic of the conversation. The popular Yahoo photosharing site has been the topic regularly here already. But somehow, flickr needs something more.
Photophlow certainly is a great addition to flickr, but in the end it’s nothing more than _one more social network_. A waste of time.
Unless… flickr had something more…
What flickr really needs are blogs. Yes, one step _back_ and be prepared to the already traditional flickr members backlash, but blogs are needed.
Why?
Not every flickr user will daily post new pictures, but sometimes they might live events which could be directly linked to their flickr presence. Like Andy and I did yesterday. So far the only way to link this up with my flickr account is to write an entry on my own blog. An entry totally independent from my flickr account. And from our mutual social network contacts. Differently said, noone on flickr really is aware about how our firstly virtual social contact now became reality. IRL reality.
Was it worth it? Yes!
Was it wirth blogging about? Frakkin’ yes!
Is it an experience to share with my flickr contacts who only follow our pictures and not our personal blogs? FFS YES!
But there’s no way to do so.