Comments on: Project X http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/ part three of the ever-exciting adventure Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:32:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Matt http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-213 Matt Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:39:36 +0000 http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-213 Will, you know damn straight I'd be using originoWabson the minute it poked its much-missed head around the door. I've been looking for a decent way to use photos re my blog for /years/ now - since, in fact, the point at which originoWabson stopped. It'd be nice if there was some way to link the reincarnatoWabson into our individual blogs a bit more - like, have a "most recently on Wabson" photo link for the blogs? Or something like that? Hope you've having fun in London, anyway. I may well give you a call this weekend... Hugs! Matt xx Will, you know damn straight I’d be using originoWabson the minute it poked its much-missed head around the door. I’ve been looking for a decent way to use photos re my blog for /years/ now - since, in fact, the point at which originoWabson stopped.

It’d be nice if there was some way to link the reincarnatoWabson into our individual blogs a bit more - like, have a “most recently on Wabson” photo link for the blogs? Or something like that?

Hope you’ve having fun in London, anyway. I may well give you a call this weekend…

Hugs!

Matt
xx

]]> By: Jamie http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-208 Jamie Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:23:17 +0000 http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-208 Hello there! I like living in Liverpool. Anyway, as I like to try and buck the trend as much as is possible (so long as i don't get in trouble for it) i'd be up for offering my menial services to create a wabsonV2 if the whim so takes you, and i'm sure many other people would be up for helping out too. Flickr is fab, but i adore the personal approach. BTW, i'm v drunk. x Hello there!
I like living in Liverpool. Anyway, as I like to try and buck the trend as much as is possible (so long as i don’t get in trouble for it) i’d be up for offering my menial services to create a wabsonV2 if the whim so takes you, and i’m sure many other people would be up for helping out too. Flickr is fab, but i adore the personal approach. BTW, i’m v drunk. x

]]> By: Will http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-207 Will Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:19:55 +0000 http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-207 Oh, and I did CSE :-) Oh, and I did CSE :-)

]]> By: Will http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-206 Will Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:18:02 +0000 http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-206 Laurie - I agree that Flikr and Blogger are both great tools, but note that with Blogger (i) a Blogger user can link to my non-Blogger weblog in their blogroll, and (ii) I can comment on their entries even though I don't have a Blogger account. This openness means I can have a blog with another provider (or set one up myself!) and we can still communicate. I'd like to see if this approach can work for photo sharing. Breaking down the entry barriers for web publishing is a marvelous thing, but people should have some degree of choice over which provider they're going to pay their subscription money to, rather than being locked into the same provider their friends are with, as is currently the case with Flikr. Laurie - I agree that Flikr and Blogger are both great tools, but note that with Blogger (i) a Blogger user can link to my non-Blogger weblog in their blogroll, and (ii) I can comment on their entries even though I don’t have a Blogger account.

This openness means I can have a blog with another provider (or set one up myself!) and we can still communicate. I’d like to see if this approach can work for photo sharing.

Breaking down the entry barriers for web publishing is a marvelous thing, but people should have some degree of choice over which provider they’re going to pay their subscription money to, rather than being locked into the same provider their friends are with, as is currently the case with Flikr.

]]> By: Artemis http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-205 Artemis Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:32:31 +0000 http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-205 I don't use flikr becaus ei like my pics on my own blog. anything to make this easier would be great, and i miss the old wabson!! I don’t use flikr becaus ei like my pics on my own blog. anything to make this easier would be great, and i miss the old wabson!!

]]> By: Laurie http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-204 Laurie Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:11:01 +0000 http://www.wabson.org/wabson/index.php/2005/11/09/project-x/#comment-204 The reason flickr is better than hosting your own photos is because of the network effects -- you don't just see your own photos, you see the photos of your contacts, you can comment on them, you can put them into group pools of similar photos. All of that is difficult to maintain -- but not, I should make clear, at all impossible. It's just that most people are lazy and/or not technically knowledgeable enough to set up their own system. On flickr all the tools are built for you -- in the same way that blogger works for people who aren't clued-up enough to set up their own blog. As for the "heterogeneous" nature of the afterlife set: you, me and Tal are the only ones who set up our own blogs, and we all happened to do CS. Everybody else is hosted on either your server or mine (and very welcome they are!) and we maintain their blog software for them, or in my case, I set it up and completely fail to maintain it ;-) Flickr and Blogger are both great tools precisely because they lower the barriers to entry for people who want to share their writing and photos but don't want to waste time doing admin, and they are happy to pay flickr's reasonable annual fees for the privilege. Also, there is nothing wrong with Yahoo, and everyone should become a member. I am totally unbiased about this ;-) The reason flickr is better than hosting your own photos is because of the network effects — you don’t just see your own photos, you see the photos of your contacts, you can comment on them, you can put them into group pools of similar photos. All of that is difficult to maintain — but not, I should make clear, at all impossible. It’s just that most people are lazy and/or not technically knowledgeable enough to set up their own system. On flickr all the tools are built for you — in the same way that blogger works for people who aren’t clued-up enough to set up their own blog.

As for the “heterogeneous” nature of the afterlife set: you, me and Tal are the only ones who set up our own blogs, and we all happened to do CS. Everybody else is hosted on either your server or mine (and very welcome they are!) and we maintain their blog software for them, or in my case, I set it up and completely fail to maintain it ;-)

Flickr and Blogger are both great tools precisely because they lower the barriers to entry for people who want to share their writing and photos but don’t want to waste time doing admin, and they are happy to pay flickr’s reasonable annual fees for the privilege.

Also, there is nothing wrong with Yahoo, and everyone should become a member. I am totally unbiased about this ;-)

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