This is a long article -and I had already posted it in a couple of other places, but I feel it is an important discussion for those of us who live part of our lives in these spaces ( Read more... )

If anyone here is on Mastodon, I'm there as
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FWIW, I'm on Mastodon here:

https://mastodon.social/@fflavio

It hasn't gone the way of all the twitter would--be killers, at least yet, but although it does look like it has a busy core of people, I don't know anybody in it so posting there feels a little bit like the wheel-man in Kentish Town going round on his monocycle stream-of-consciousness ( Read more... )

Just in case it might be of interest:

I'm on Mastodon, at:


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I've had this account in Mastodon for a while. So far, I have one follower. I don't know anybody there but also I don't know anybody who uses it. In case you want to go there, I'm @fflavio there, or @fflavio@mastodon.social. I'm not entirely clear on how it works, it seems to function in a similar way, in terms of distributed server, to, what was ( Read more... )

I must be one of the few people still using Google Plus. There are a few peeps there that are not on FB or LJ/DW; I also follow a few communities (mostly on classical guitar, science-fiction, pop science… I’m predictable like that). One of the feeds I read is that of NASA. It is nearly always interesting but I have to refrain from reading the ( Read more... )

A few days ago I posted link to a youtube video of me playing a Leo Brouwer piece at a recital in January. I posted it in about 10 social media/etc sites. Have got 18 views. This is a little less than two views per site. Vagaries of the internet..

Yet another Facebook killer:

http://www.tsu.co

Looks ok, it's quite busy at the moment and has several interesting angles (some of which in their Wikipedia page). Do they have a chance? Erm... probably not. So many have come and gone. The main problem with Facebook is not features, it seems to me, ( Read more... )

A very soggy Monday morning, with the counterpoint between my normal (ok, I call it normal) life of getting up early, saying happy birthday to a couple of people on Facebook, sipping coffee and setting out for lessons, while getting ripples of the Venezuelan election results with Chávez having won in what seems from here to be a credible way. And a ( Read more... )