Dark now we have the cloud there is no real centralisation even with email.
Do we know for example where all our info is, where its stored and
where it goes off the top the top of our heads?
I don't and I don't think anyone else does either.
My point, centralised nets are the thing of the past now days.
I don't care for facebook mainly because I spend to much time online as it is.
The family want me out more and to be honest I have slowed down quite a lot.
If I had facebook, regularly tweated and followed notifications on my
phone I'd never get out.
With the level of tech i currently have I find it extremely difficult
to get away.
On top of that, to be honest things change so fast including the
security and update side of things that its hard to follow things.
Being self employed its easy enough to take time to keep things
running but I can sometimes wast a couple hours making sure they are.
I know vary well that in the last 10 years my gaming style has
changed, and how I have switched away from playing to designing as
well as playing, listening to tv, podcasts and web brousing with a
bit of security and such in the middle.
I do gym work every morning and some afternoons as well as walks and
family outings taking all that standard stuff into concept here the
time I have online has halved forcing me to work into the night
sometimes I spend half the night working my rear off.
It would be impossible for me to try to follow more than I do.
I follow the forum, email, several blog twitter and web feeds, not to
mention several websites for security podcasts and updates.
On a good day without anything to see or do I can get round in a
couple hours and have some time left.
On a bad day, I can have everything from updates to hardware and
software failiers, remote gps clouds crashing and the like pluss
several things on the go.
Even if I go on vacation outside the net collective for even a week
it takes me almost as much time working all hours to catch up with
the current state of the net including the current dropbox projects
not to mention my torrent sync feeds.
I guess I could fit one more group in but I couldn't post all the day long.
I can barely keep up with the reading as it is.
Never mind if I get work, life, distractions etc a few hours work
becomes a day's work.
And if I don't finnish the days work that day there is just that bit
more to do the next day.
And if I slack off which I often do especially when its hot, thats
more time I need to catch up on.
So I couldn't handle any more.
In fact to be honestif things got bussy I may have to cut back.
At 04:51 a.m. 11/02/2015, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
Lack of centralization is indeed a possible concern. The
audiogames.net site news and the fact that there are many members in
common does tend to mean that the major stuff gets passed on, but is
more of an issue for miner things or things that are very new, for
example this morning a member called Stirlock posted a message about
a new mud, Flux world, with apparently some access fixes. I've not
tried it, and I'm not experienced enough with muds to coherently try
to paraphrase Stirlock's message, but that is just one example.
On the other hand, (and even speaking as I said from the fact that I
don't personally like facebook), there are already some major
communities which, if not actually specifically audiogames related,
are so close as to have a lot of useful info that sometimes gets passed on.
I'm thinking here of places like Applevis, the BGT forum, the Gma
mailing list and possibly Klango (although Klango has sort of
become the audiogame cracker's heaven from what I've gathered).
So to an extent we might already be in the situation you mention,
and sinse facebook is a visible platform it might be helpful to have
some sort of stronger presense relating to audiogames there? That is
why audiogames.net has a facebook page, although as I said I don't
think it says anything too different to what is in the site news.
So, I see pros and cons either way, although I confess even if it
weren't for the fact that I'm not a fan of facebook anyway, I
probably wouldn't want to get heavily involved in another audiogames
community, just on the basis of time, heck, much as I do like the
Applevis site I can't exactly call myself a contributing member.
Perhaps that is another major concern, that whatever else most of
the people who would be interested in participating in a facebook
group are perhaps already involved with one or other or both
audiogames communities, so how much time they'd have to spend on
facebook I'm not sure.
Really I don't know whether this is a good idea or not.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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