At the moment my focus is being distracted from applications like the dynamic web pages of the ABC projects including ABC Open and ABC Pool, to the social applications of Facebook and Twitter.
Although I've been on it for a while, Facebook remains an eye opener, especially watching the kids coming online like its a natural extension of their daily chat. Someone once described Facebook as a list of the women you have slept with, although this doesn't seem entirely true, it does have that kind of ring of truth about it and I can see why someone would develop that idea. We tend to "friend" people as part of our discovery of each other, part of the current mating ritual it seems. Interesting concept, unfortunately I have many friends that I have neither slept with or have any intention of doing so, heaps of past co-workers and people I respect and their kids. I also have a few family as most seem to have on there.
Anyway, what was I rambling about? Oh yeah, the net. Twitter, funny thing Twitter, its role in the way news is being reported ('cos all the journo's seem to be on there) is pretty amazing. Stories and pics are passed around, mostly by links as the format is limited to 140 characters. Most of the Journo's I have followed are ABC with a smattering of political freelance. I also follow a few of the comedy producers/writers/actors like Dan Ilic from Hungry beast, they are great value, chattering away and tweeting up interesting links to youtube or other sources, often extremely funny or relevant stuff. The 2009 vid of Tony Abbot proposing a carbon tax that was eventually shown on QandA on the telly last night was tweeted by them a couple of days ago.
But apart from news and snippets of relevant humour Tweeps, (as the twitterers seem to call themselves) have great word games they play, if your quick you can catch them before the threads gets to a point where it trends and attracts the attention of the automated spam robots (bots). From there it quickly degenerates into crap.
Last Saturday Randomhouse Australia put up a thread/game :-
Let's play a game - mash up of classic book titles and Australiana #australianbooks
The meme came up with some very funny names and it kept me busy for an hour or 2 and I was truly laughing at the brilliance of some of the contributions, my personal favorite was
But check the link for others, there really are some clever people out there with not much else to do.
Day#4. I did manage to put up some more stuff into the #30daysofcreativity project as well, I cropped and posted a pic I had taken the day before, it was just too good a vision not to snap and had to share it.
Day#5 and while I was reviewing footage I had taken of myself with the intention of making an short video add (to get loose women within my clutches and ply them with drink while watching a sunset) I noticed how badly I walked on this new leg. This put a little dent in my ego and I had a bit of a think about it and wrote a short piece about how net perceptions were different to reality in "On the Net". My English teacher would have torn strips off me if she had seen it, but it was something to post, and touched a nerve with some. I even copped some feedback on Facebook from friends thinking I was depressed but it wasn't at all so.
Day#6, Well one of my favorite tweeps I follow is a hopelessly politically addicted lassy who writes under the pseudonym of Drag0nista . I am finding out a lot from her about the working of politics, mostly just by watching and reading her writings but she also is approachable and I ask her questions. Whilst I feel sometimes that these questions may seem politically naive to her, she answers them honestly and will often send me helpful links. Anyway, one night while she was discussing what's for dinner, a public discussion ensued about ordering pizza and what toppings were suitable - with said lassy eventually championing a savory meat based pizza with additional pineapple topping. Many found this abhorrent and the tongue in cheek thread #pineapplewars began.
This thread got me salivating and come next tea time I just couldn't help myself and went into town to get a pizza. Ordering a savoury pizza with half pineapple (because I'm just a diplomatic kind of guy-see comitaphobe ) I just had to duck into K-Mart and dolly the thing up for a pic. After all, it's about creativity ;) and having fun.
Day#7. I've been a bit annoyed at the introduction of those pics on the top of facebook for a little while now and saw that a few people had them in a series that made what we used to call a banner, across the top of the page. So, in my usual manner, I decided that it would be possible to make my own. A quick google revealed a youtube vid done by some smartarse kid and I managed to follow it, with lots of pausing etc, and make my own. I used the graphic I had made for the banner on this blog as a starter graphic and away I went. After cropping and chopping it all went just as he said it would and I posted it to my facebook page. I then put the whole thing up on Pool as Creative Commons with instructions and download links for my seventh day of creativity. So if you want to grab it and change your facebook banner from all those pics your friends tagged you in, feel free ;)
In the meantime..
stay Safe and Well
Scuzz
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