About Facebook

For all facebook users. I came across this article today. There is a growing movement to quit facebook because of privacy concerns. I don't need to quit facebook as most people know.

Even someone as into internet openness as Cory Doctorow (fiction writer) has quit it.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2915364.htm


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/31/2913982.htm

feeds added

Technorati state of the blogosphere feed and a feed to my delicious account are now on this blog at the bottom of the page. I put two feeds that kind of fit with the site.

Technorati

Technorati is a search engine that searches blogs and rates them with a value it calls "authority".

To have your blog considered register and submit it for inclusion at technorati.

To rate a blog Technorati makes use of analysis of the number of blogs linking to the blog, as well as tags on the blog which set up the way technorati categorises information. (from wikipedia).

Each year Technorati publish a report called "State of the Blogosphere" which aims to give a series of statistics, interviews and general information about blogging:

http://technorati.com/state-of-the-blogosphere/

A good example of the statistics is this article which suggests that to have a successful blog it is a good idea to post about 300 posts a month!

http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-3-the-how-of-blogging1/


Bernard

Project Bluebird

http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/bluebird/
This online ABC series is an interesting experiment in a new form of internet based story telling that utilises on line video, social media real documentation, and even has the characters interacting with the audience. Bluebird is a fictional story about climate change and geoengineering. In my opinion anything like this requires an effort to get into, but one of these days someone will come up with the right balance to make things like this work. Still working out if this does.

Bernard

HTML 5

I am planning to research what is happening with alternatives to flash like html5. Though incomplete it seems pretty straightforward so far. I figure that this will be pretty useful in terms of internet stuff over the next year or two. I think this is at the core of the debate between Apple and Adobe. In the end the non proprietary thing will win I think, at least in terms of performance and quality, and you will be able to make it in a wysiwyg way in dreamweaver and flash anyway.

Here is a link to the first HTML 5 and CSS3 capability add in for Dreamweaver.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/html5pack/

And this link has code snippets for video and audio in the html 5 format.

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp


Just click on the specific tags to get more code and information on how to apply it.

It seems that HTML 5 video, so that no plug in like flash is required will be well supported before too long, with options for it already in vimeo for example.

I understand that not all browsers have much support for the basics of html 5 yet. Still I think it is worth working towards where things are going rather than where they have been. Otherwise it is a matter of learning things that are obsolete before I have chance to work with them in a year or two.

It seems from this comparison that it is primarily internet explorer that is the prime problem (as usual).

http://caniuse.com/


Bernard