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Re: Blogs to tell you things you don’t know

JayCruz — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:05:12 -0000

Thanks for including TND in this really cool list. As in blogs I would recommend there are too many, but one I've fallen in love with is Snarkmarket http://snarkmarket.com/blog/ and I recommend it because is not as well known as it should.

Re: The Daily Death: When A Celebrity Dies Every 15 Minutes

JayCruz — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:45:22 -0000

We mythologize the dead because they can never deny or confirm our presumptions about them.

Re: Why one guy is quitting social media and why this is important

JayCruz — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:45:47 -0000

Thanks for sharing the post around and for offering a really great reaction. I was kind of scared that it was going to turn out too lecture-y. :) I don't think is something that drastic though. That's another assumption about social media that's overblown. The idea that if you're not on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, you're missing out. I guess the speed, but I find that to be more of a disadvantage. I'm slowing it down like Dr Dre with Dr Pepper.

I'm definitely not planning on quitting the blog however. This can sound hypocritical because blogs are thrown into the social media tag, but the expectation and purpose is clear. I write, you read. Maybe I get comment, maybe I comment back. :) But I'm definitely out of the following-being-followed thing. And hey, I can always make a blog post of what I had for breakfast.

Thanks again Mark. I always appreciate your thoughts.

Re: Is the real-time Web all that it is cracked up to be?

JayCruz — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:06 -0000

The problem with the "real time web" and "social media" for that matter, is the premise of it's selling point: That everything that happens is news, that sharing anything is dubbed content, and the unrealistic expectation of socializing without triviality, banality, or noise.

Re: jayCruz - Daniel Bat for Lashes Daniel to scenes of The...

JayCruz — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:47:59 -0000

The song is the regular version from the Two Suns album... I think. Now you got me confused. The video was downloaded from a Karate Kid tribute from Youtube. I just cut and edited some scenes with iMovie. :)

Re: On Tumblarity; My Tumblr Feature Requests

JayCruz — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:24:22 -0000

I don't know why people think that Tumblr, and the web for that matter, has been a non-competitive utopic community of intimate friends. Not that you can't have that experience in a semi-public kind of way, but if you don't really care about popularity, then it shouldn't matter. If you truly want an "intimate" experience then have it. Stay in Facebook and add only the real real friends. Use your email, chats, and stuff that is truly more private and intimate. Make your Tumblr private.

That said, I understand the concern. There's been this shift in the web with the whole web 2.0 ideal of participatory audience. The Social Media thing which is Web 2.0 gone haywire. People are giving themselves an unnecessary pressure to be "useful" and donate "valuable" content and I'm not sure if that has made the web better at all.

In the end Tumblr is what you make of it. You can look at the stats, see what you can do about that and if it matters, or you can just ignore it and keep posting photos of your breakfast.

Re: The Gospel According to Gillmor

JayCruz — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:30:02 -0000

Since a lot of sites and blogs have created Twitter feeds, it can replace the rss reader if that's all you do. But I thought that Twitter was about following people, so I find that kind of odd.

Re: jayCruz

JayCruz — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:14:41 -0000

This actor is on my to pay attention radar from now on.

Re: Twitter and Posterous

JayCruz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:03:31 -0000

You just explained exactly how I feel about Twitter, but articulated it way much better than I ever could. There's this idea being sold about the "importance" of Twitter and how it's going to change the future of media that's just ridiculous.

Re: Why do we participate in group projects? | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:34:37 -0000

There's "Egoboo" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoboo but that's just another form of intrinsic motivation. I think the four things that you mention are about it.

Re: The blogroll still lives but we are killing it off | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:10:17 -0000

It's definitely lost its power for the reasons you mention like linking to Twitter and sharing feeds. Another reason why it has lost it's power is because of the buddy-blogger-link exchange-thing. Readers learned to ignore that part of the sidebar because it got too cumbersome. I still like the idea though, but that's because I'm kind of "old school". :)

Re: Bibliotherapy?

JayCruz — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:53:01 -0000

It's the first time I hear about Bibliotherapy too. I think it makes sense that books can be used as therapy.

Re: jayCruz

JayCruz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:10:44 -0000

If Im not mistaken, I think Gladwell also talks about Godin in his book The Tipping Point, but I'm not 100% sure. He's definitely one of the great thinkers and communicators out there.

Re: 10 mistakes from 2008 that I hope I learn from | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:25:56 -0000

I'm taking you're #9 goal, but in reverse. I want to be less "afraid" to publish because of quality. It's really hard to reach a balance with that.

Re: sigh, Twitter.

JayCruz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:29:22 -0000

I usually use Twitter search using keywords, check out profiles, read a couple tweets, and then decide to follow. There are some tools to check out "featured" users, http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/9-useful-sites-for... the link has couple of tools, but you have dig a little deeper.

Re: Do link blogs suck? | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:46:43 -0000

If you mean using a platform like wordpress or blogger to just putting hypertext, then yes, I agree. If your going to do just that, then something like twitter, digg, or delicious would be a better option. But you could be a good "link blogger", as in pointing to things you find online, if you offer some context.

Re: Is creative content going to atomize even further? | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:35:14 -0000

Music wise, I think that's the trend that you will keep on seeing. I don't know how good or bad it is, but the web has influenced different media to be more immersive. More participatory. If I'm not mistaken, Beck released some singles for people to mix and then he put the best mix on the album. That's the good part I guess. The bad part is that attention spans are getting shorter and shorter.

Re: How to deserve an audience

JayCruz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:26:28 -0000

I don't know, but I don't think Twitter is a good place to look for an "audience." The majority of the Twitter users I have encountered have a really short attention span. They seem a little bipolar. One minute they're angry about something, the next they're eating a sandwich.

Re: Star Trek XI Trailer, Sneaky Camera Version

JayCruz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:40:37 -0000

The trailer is definitely more Star Wars-ish, but less Trek-ish.

Re: Do you think blogging is dying? | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:04:56 -0000

You know, these articles about "Blogging is Dead, Long Live Blogging" are popping out left and right recently. It's like a new genre, a new niche even. Like "blogging about blogging," blogging about the the death of blogging has turned into a link bait headline. I have read a lot them, and I somewhat agree, but only when I have in my head the definition that "blogging" isn't blogging if it isn't "personal." That's what they mostly mean when they say it's dead and yes, I get it. Writing about your cats and how they got lost for several hours is not going to have a big impact on the web, but that doesn't mean that the form is dying and offers no value anymore.

I wouldn't worry. Like you said, it's a form that keeps evolving. It's the oldest form, but in my opinion the best way to publish things online, which people happen to call blogging.

Re: louisgray.com: You Control Your Online Noise Velocity

JayCruz — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:32:58 -0000

"Noise" is a concept that only exists in peoples minds and only happens to people who feel obligated to follow everything they encounter, when they now they can't handle it.

Re: A page full of thank yous for some great people | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:12:28 -0000

Danke! :)

Re: The comment mash-up experiment | Broadcasting Brain

JayCruz — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:26:27 -0000

This is a great mental exercise that helps to understand better ones thought process.

Re: jayCruz

JayCruz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:54:23 -0000

I'm guessing that they wrote the bit about the Ocean 13 heist conspiracy first and stayed up late last night writing and drawing the things that really did happen like the Chicago speech and people going out in the streets celebrating.

Re: Tape Noise Diary

JayCruz — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:50:11 -0000

Exactly. They are usually "honest and unmerciful" about music that they think is bad.