Hi Dave, Writing for yourself on your blog is the best way. I always use mine for writing exercises or developing thoughts. Since we're sharing, ehre's mine:
www.memecortex.net/blog www.memecortex.net/vlog www.keepartevil.net I'd be interested in anyone else's blogs if they wanted to share, it would be nice to gather a collection of good reading on arts or anything else people on netbehaviour are thinking about. Cheers Mark On 15 Jul 2011, at 18:31, dave miller wrote: > Hi Ana > > "I feel the lack of an audience, tha'ts the reason I try new > platforms" - that's so true - often I feel I'm writing to myself on my > blog: http://davemiller.org > > In fact I know I am! How sad ... still I find it useful way of > recording my interests and ideas, though more goes into my notebooks > (pen and paper) to be honest. > > Recently I started using Facebook again, as I was trying to promote a > campaign - I found both facebook and twitter very useful for this - I > did reach a lot of people. I hate becoming part of this corporate > network, but it felt sort of ok using them just to promote something > which isnt about me. I see marc uses Facebook for this. I know others > who use it for bookmarking. > > Mark - I enjoy using Facebook to try out different persona - well, I > did it for a while, I was a 28 year old French bloke. Nothing exciting > or even interesting happened though, but it did confuse people, and > hopefully messes up Facebook's data. > > dave > > > > On 15 July 2011 16:09, Ana Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Mark and thanks for an intelligent approach. I agree with you, but >> sometimes I feel the lack of an audience, tha'ts the reason I try new >> platforms. >> In the Ninetie's in Sweden I wrote three or four articles a month for >> Swedens largest morningpaper, Dagens Nyheter, 400000 copies every day... >> It's difficult to substitute those numbers of readers :) >> Marc, what kind or articles you wanted? About the discussion about it's >> worth or not invest time and money in to be present in all those social >> media storefronts? >> Ana >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Mark Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, James, Ana, >>> >>> I wouldn't bother with any. Starting a blog and posting links to things >>> you've written has got to still be the best way to independantly engage with >>> media, hasn't it? >>> >>> Having said that, I bloody love social media platforms and have constant >>> fun changing my job status and creating a false, idealistic persona through >>> updates and work, education details. I see it as a kind of literary >>> narrative experiment. Social media is the perfect host for trickster >>> playfullness. Last month I was the Chief Satirist for Baader-Meinhoff. I can >>> only imagine how that skewers the marketing info about me? Not been asked to >>> buy weapons yet though, so maybe it doesn't work? >>> >>> Ana, have you got any links to news articles about this? It bypassed me. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> On 15 July 2011 15:06, Ana Valdes <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> James you go the opposite way that many! :) the most ppl I know >>>> (including myself) are leaving Facebooks for more user-friendly platforms, >>>> Google +, Diaspora, Scoop.it, Twitter >>>> For me the bottom was raised last week, when Facebook provided Israel >>>> with lists of American and European Palestine activists, to help Israel >>>> blacklist them and prevent them from entering Palestine. >>>> I want very much be your friend but not in the Facebook evil empire >>>> Zuckerberg is building with our names and content. >>>> Ana >>>> >>>> Skickat från min iPhone >>>> >>>> 15 jul 2011 kl. 15:49 skrev James Morris <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> As I am too scared to make direct friend requests on facebook, i am >>>>> requesting semi-blindly here. i only have 15 facebook friends so i >>>>> feel that i'd like to be a bit less of an outcast, will you be my >>>>> friend please? my target is 20 friends by the end of the month! i >>>>> realize i've been on occasion a bit of an annoyance on the list so >>>>> i've not got my expectations up. that being said, i will probably be >>>>> upset if no one wants to be my friend but i'll try not to let it >>>>> embitter me. so if you'd like to be my friend, it would be an honour. >>>>> i won't trouble you with anything other than you might get to see a >>>>> video on youtube i like from time to time, and maybe some personal >>>>> pictures i post, but my activity is fairly low so not too much of an >>>>> annoyance like people who post their daily horoscopes or shopping >>>>> habbits or crap like that. >>>>> >>>>> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002250404575 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> mostly sincerely but a pinch of salt might be required, >>>>> james william morris >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> >> -- >> http://anavaldes.wordpress.com >> http://passagenwerk.wordpress.com >> http://caravia.stumbleupon.com >> http://www.crusading.se >> Gondolgatan 2 l tr >> 12832 Skarpnäck >> Sweden >> tel +468-943288 >> mobil 4670-3213370 >> >> >> "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your >> eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long >> to return. >> — Leonardo da Vinci >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > -- > ============================ > Sign the petition: Close residential streets on Sundays so children > can play out: http://uservoice.com/a/cVvU6 > ============================ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
