Social Publishing
Sand animation by Kseniya Simonova
Ever heard about sand animation? There seems to be two types of sand animation. I'm at the moment especially interested about the performance art. In this type the artist is creating series of images with sand, right in front of the viewers eyes. I knew nothing about this form of art. Not until I saw Kseniya Simonova rendering some amazing stuff on the background of Ukrainian entry for Eurovision Song Contest 2011. The video embedded here is her dedication for Chernobyl disaster back in 1986. (The actual animation starts about two minutes in, after Ms. Simonova's speech.)
Simple definition for social media
Finding a clear and simple definition for the term social media is hard. Most likely because no-one seems to quite know what it means. So here's what I've decided the definition for social media (roughly) entails: Social media are relatively easily accessible, mostly highly modifiable and scalable Internet based tools, which content is created and/or modified by the users of these tools.
Social media is...
Social media is... Social, communicative and conversational Transparent and personal Evolving What you make of it and what your interest groups make of it Social media requires... Courage to put yourself and/or your brand out there, and courage to try and possibly fail, but then try again Transparency and personality Effort and interest Imagination Social media gives... Conversations, questions, answers, feedback, info, data People: Networks, friends and other connections Opportunities to get yourself and/or your brand out t...
Like something's wrong
All these buttons are giving me white hair. First the different tweet buttons and now Facebook Like. It used to be all fine, but all of a sudden a couple of days ago all the Like buttons started to show a count of 8 likes. All. Of. Them. Including the count on all the new blog posts, immediately after being released. Today the count had climbed up to 9, which had happened as someone had actually tried to like one of my posts. Unfortunately this person (who happens to be my friend, including on Facebook) ended up liking my whole site instead of one of the posts. Well, that's not unfortun...
The most important word
Someone had asked on Quora for the most important word on the Internet. At first I thought this is a silly question. Then I thought it again and read through what others had answered. The selection was quite wide. Some said it's networking and someone even went for LOL. But I thought the answer should be clear: Communication Communication is what the Internet basically is all about. Communicating with someone or something. Communicating with faceless and nameless unknown, maybe the whole world. Communicating with known, such as friends, family members, colleagues... The technology...
The little difference
There has been quite a lot of complains about how the amount of comments on blogs has been reduced. That the amount of readers, according to the stats, has stayed as much or even grown, but the amount of comments has slowly or pretty fast been reduced. I had a blog sometime during the years 2003-2006. Well, I did have some sort of webjournalish thingies before that, but those were the years I actually had an active blog with commenting and all. That blog did receive a quite steady amount of comments. Not a lot, but some, here and there. The difference between that and Tomato Branch is clear....
Dear You
Dear friend, follower, stalker or online trekker, I'm writing this little open letter because I have noticed an interesting pattern on Twitter. When I don't tweet at all I gain a bunch of new followers. And then the more tweet (and it's really not that much compared to some) the more followers I lose. I usually don't know who they are. I use a Twitter client which shows only the number of followers, but not the names and I've set so that I won't get notices when someone starts to follow me. First of all I tweeted about this and someone answered me they rarely follow anyone who tweets m...
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