Let's call this the Twitter of art: a painting reduced to 140 circles. Guess before you click through. |
I'm now on Google+ but I'm struggling to figure out how and why to use it. Addressing the "how", here's a cheat sheet for Google+ with 11 handy tips. As for the "why", I'm not sure why I'd use Google+ versus Facebook and Twitter.
This photo of 4 moons transiting Jupiter's face is #47 on the list of the top 100 Hubble images. |
Visual.ly, a website dedicated to the promotion of infographics and data visualizations, launched this week. I'm an enabler: here's a family tree of the Emacs editor. Creo Sketch is PTC's 2D sketching tool - and it's free. This video makes it look pretty easy to use.
I will not link to the crazy nastyass honey badger video. (That does not mean I haven't favorited it on YouTube.)
Just wash that fallout down the drain with Flobar. source |
Just a little eye candy: video of a brief abstract animation: Divide. Aviation pr0n of the week: video of the F-35C during a jet blast deflector test (a plane never looked so good going nowhere). For my quilting friends: improvisational quilts. Haven't had one of these in a while: the periodic table of search engine optimization.
Get a God's-eye view of any location on the planet with Earth View. |
So much to read, so little time. Here's a list of the top 50 entrepreneurs ranked by their tweets and blog traffic. I follow 3 of the top 5 but my readership drops off dramatically after that.
Thank you for reading.
...than it is to dispose of dreams. ~Don DeLillo (Americana)
4 comments:
Wow, I wouldn't have guessed I'd be able to spot-identify the painting in 140 dots.
As for Google+ - I've been wondering the same thing. The best theories I've come up with, in no particular order:
a) It gives me the opportunity to fill out Yet Another Personal Profile while copying all of my existing work from Flickr to Picasa, for example;
b) It's for the folks who were on/liked Orkut before Google lost interest in that project and let it become taken over by spammers;
c) A temporary safe-haven from CastleYouMafiaFarm WarsVille.
Things I see it has going for it include being able to define (imaging the strike tag being here for cleverness)groups(close strike tag) circles of people (my favorite circle name: OHSHITBEES) and filter out that way. Facebook used to have a similar thing, but in their bimonthly watering-down of security, removed the feature. And certain people I'm obligated to friend on Facebook are not there. Plus, the deletion of a circle is worth doing at least twice.
I continue to despise Blink.
The Mona Lisa was pretty easy. It's one of those things that looks deceptively easy to do. I was tempted to try it myself but then started thinking about how to do it and gave up when it got too complicated.
I think you hit the nail on the head with respect to Google+. Do I really want to repost all the stuff I already post on Twitter and Facebook? Or, how do I know what to post where? Do I use FB only for friends and family, Twitter for work? And Google+ for what? "In case you didn't see my Tweet..."
Also, it gives me a list of people I might want to add to a circle, but there's just 400 names and faces and absolutely no description of who they are. Kinda like an out-of-the-blue LinkedIn request. If I don't recognize the name and they don't remind me, it goes in the bin.
John --I've been reading but not commenting because I have been too damn busy to do anything and I'm hot and old and just finished restoring a rental property.
I'll be back soon. Thanks.
(And I need more time on the Einstein graphic explanation of time relative to light.)
Old. check
Hot. check
Bulging Disk. check
We can compare maladies when you've recovered from your renovations.
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