Winding curves...
Dangerously twisty ones, in this case of the learning variety.
I just spent an hour or so trying unsuccesfully to modify the last post, which it appears cannot be modified. That's going to grate on my nerves that there's no way to alter, delete, or correct entries sent in over MMS.
A little background: the last post was sent via my mobile phone. I'd just written an extensive post on the sequence of events that led up to the decision to utilize the newly-introduced Blogger feature of mobile blogging. Unfortunately, due to some kind of Blogger software/programming glitch, my entire post is lost (why does it never fail that only the posts we write in the Blogger window, instead of notepad or Word, are the ones that invariably get lost? All it would have taken on my part was a simple and strategically-timed command-A, command-C, and all would have been fine and salvageable. Grr!), and now I'm far too agitated to recreate the post from memory (not that I even could at this point.)
The thrust of it was that I'd been thinking over the last couple days, of starting a photo blog. Mike's and Alan's textamerica.com photo blogs (or moblogs, a truncation of mobile blogs, and a term I loathe for some reason) are pretty good examples of this prolific phenomena. The ubiquity of cheap camera phones coupled with the self-aggrandizing nature of this country's populace (and, I guess, by extension, of the human condition as a whole, creates an environment where there almost seem to be more photo blogs than people. Mike doesn't do a text blog, and Alan had his photo blog before venturing into the world of the written (typed) entry, so their needs are slightly differnet than mine (and one another's), making for a nice, representative needs-demographic cross-section. That being said, there's definitely seems to be a value-added component appeal to being able to post to one's blog not only from anywhere one has access to a computer and the internet, but also to be able to do so (and have an easy way to add photo evidence) from anywhere in the global GSM coverage network.
Taking my recent dearth of posting into account, it seems as though a good combinative (is that a word?) idea has been stumbled across, much like the peanut-butter-and-chocolate commercials of my youth. I still have an inherent need to ramble on ad infinitum from time to time, but in the absence of the time, attention, and opportunity to do that over the ever-increasing-length weekends, (and with Rosie's repeated urgings to post some pictures, for god's sake!) and with me finding myself in worth-a-thousand-words situations with increasing frequency, perhaps the more-frequent-and-with-more-photographic-content-but-less-wordy approach bears investigation.
I'm the first to go on at length about how I haven't owned a digital camera whose maximum resolution is 640 x 480 in something like 8 years (in fact, my first, a behemoth monstrosity of a first-generation Sony Mavica that I paid in excess of $800 for, and may still be in my brother's posession), and that, despite their increasing complexity (some are multi-megapixel and/or carry LED 'flash' units to aid in low-light photography,) the convergence of digital cameras and cell phones is decidedly NOT a good thing. It does however, amaze me that the mechanics of a device that does the same thing as that two-fisted beast of my past, can fit inside the secondary feature space of a device that weighs less than 3.8 ounces, and displaces no more than a couple dozen cubic centimetres. Simply amazing.
The second component is that I already own a fully capable and compact [dedicated, read: single-purposed] 5MP digital camera, a Pentax Optio S5i. I pretty much keep it with me at all times, and it takes outstanding 2-3 megabyte photos, that when you return from a weekend having taken 250 of these almost-infinitely enlargeable, croppable, and also-great-for-performing-detailed-skin-analysis files that invariably need to be reduced into managably smaller sizes, become a bit of a chore to manage. There probably is something to be said for the limited-application graininess and tininess of some photos being in this different format.
Well, it's after 4am, and I'm feeling the coherence diminishing appreciably. We'll see how the remote photo submission experiment works, and as always, feedback in the form of your comments are always welcome.
Ciao.
I just spent an hour or so trying unsuccesfully to modify the last post, which it appears cannot be modified. That's going to grate on my nerves that there's no way to alter, delete, or correct entries sent in over MMS.
A little background: the last post was sent via my mobile phone. I'd just written an extensive post on the sequence of events that led up to the decision to utilize the newly-introduced Blogger feature of mobile blogging. Unfortunately, due to some kind of Blogger software/programming glitch, my entire post is lost (why does it never fail that only the posts we write in the Blogger window, instead of notepad or Word, are the ones that invariably get lost? All it would have taken on my part was a simple and strategically-timed command-A, command-C, and all would have been fine and salvageable. Grr!), and now I'm far too agitated to recreate the post from memory (not that I even could at this point.)
The thrust of it was that I'd been thinking over the last couple days, of starting a photo blog. Mike's and Alan's textamerica.com photo blogs (or moblogs, a truncation of mobile blogs, and a term I loathe for some reason) are pretty good examples of this prolific phenomena. The ubiquity of cheap camera phones coupled with the self-aggrandizing nature of this country's populace (and, I guess, by extension, of the human condition as a whole, creates an environment where there almost seem to be more photo blogs than people. Mike doesn't do a text blog, and Alan had his photo blog before venturing into the world of the written (typed) entry, so their needs are slightly differnet than mine (and one another's), making for a nice, representative needs-demographic cross-section. That being said, there's definitely seems to be a value-added component appeal to being able to post to one's blog not only from anywhere one has access to a computer and the internet, but also to be able to do so (and have an easy way to add photo evidence) from anywhere in the global GSM coverage network.
Taking my recent dearth of posting into account, it seems as though a good combinative (is that a word?) idea has been stumbled across, much like the peanut-butter-and-chocolate commercials of my youth. I still have an inherent need to ramble on ad infinitum from time to time, but in the absence of the time, attention, and opportunity to do that over the ever-increasing-length weekends, (and with Rosie's repeated urgings to post some pictures, for god's sake!) and with me finding myself in worth-a-thousand-words situations with increasing frequency, perhaps the more-frequent-and-with-more-photographic-content-but-less-wordy approach bears investigation.
I'm the first to go on at length about how I haven't owned a digital camera whose maximum resolution is 640 x 480 in something like 8 years (in fact, my first, a behemoth monstrosity of a first-generation Sony Mavica that I paid in excess of $800 for, and may still be in my brother's posession), and that, despite their increasing complexity (some are multi-megapixel and/or carry LED 'flash' units to aid in low-light photography,) the convergence of digital cameras and cell phones is decidedly NOT a good thing. It does however, amaze me that the mechanics of a device that does the same thing as that two-fisted beast of my past, can fit inside the secondary feature space of a device that weighs less than 3.8 ounces, and displaces no more than a couple dozen cubic centimetres. Simply amazing.
The second component is that I already own a fully capable and compact [dedicated, read: single-purposed] 5MP digital camera, a Pentax Optio S5i. I pretty much keep it with me at all times, and it takes outstanding 2-3 megabyte photos, that when you return from a weekend having taken 250 of these almost-infinitely enlargeable, croppable, and also-great-for-performing-detailed-skin-analysis files that invariably need to be reduced into managably smaller sizes, become a bit of a chore to manage. There probably is something to be said for the limited-application graininess and tininess of some photos being in this different format.
Well, it's after 4am, and I'm feeling the coherence diminishing appreciably. We'll see how the remote photo submission experiment works, and as always, feedback in the form of your comments are always welcome.
Ciao.
posted by Gene at 4:15 AM
1 Comments:
That moblog is aljordan.textamerica.com
For those who which to peruse its contense.
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