I flicked through it briefly - aargh, still have to get around to putting my DWCon photos up - but haven't had the time as yet to sit down properly and look through it.
...as for the name thing; well, yes, but there are people who annoy me when they leave the second 't' off (like my employers, or my bank); and people I don't mind so much - the person misspelling it this time around has at least misspelt it consistently for the last decade.
Imo, LJ critical mass is the point of convergence between LotR:TT & RotK and HP:CoS & PoA. You can practically draw a line through it with HP:OotP (book) & PotC:tCotBP.
The YT upsurge, imo, is totally down to Napster and when Google added a search-video facility. A lot of music vids were already on the web in squinty - picture=bad, sound=bloody great. So when Napster's legit service went live and they started charging to rent DRM locked tracks, people moved on to cheaper alternatives. iTunes went off like a rocket at about the same time - so people were previewing for free with vids found through Google Video & buying through iTunes. Then YT came along and the only thing that changed was the files moved from squinty to watchable *.flv.
That's just what I think anyway. One's a collision of two huge mass fandoms and the latter's economics & market trends.
huh. interesting. i was on the hpslash list back when it was still book-based but left before the films hit properly - people were squinting at pictures of Tom whatsisface in that Jodie Foster film and going 'er. Does not scream 'Draco' to me.' when I was on them. and remember the rumblings about lj and all the screaming about napster, which at the time I couldn;t give a toss about, since I was happy with my cds and the radio. for some reason I've always been relatively low-fi with a ridiculously cutting-edge reading list. so I heard about he trends and tech in their infancy but never used them til they were stable.
It's my brain's way of indexing things. eg, If I wanted to find something related to Magnificent 7: The Series - I wouldn't bother with LJ as the MLs were more active. In reverse BSG: New Series - hit LJ, exhaust everything then scrounge the web
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I know. I used to hear about them and then figured you needed extra time and attention and then missed half the conversation because you went away for two hours. I am not nothing if not lazy.
Which for some reason often means that I look at something in disgust as overly complex, then provide a how-to guide. With footnotes and tagging so you can find things.
'...what are you doing?' 'writing the manual on how to use the xml program for newbies. The old manual was shit and too vague.'
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That would be the post with his full name correctly spelled at the top: http://community.livejournal.com/discworld_2008/29411.html
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...as for the name thing; well, yes, but there are people who annoy me when they leave the second 't' off (like my employers, or my bank); and people I don't mind so much - the person misspelling it this time around has at least misspelt it consistently for the last decade.
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You seem to always use 'Terry' when talking directly to me though, so not sure...
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The YT upsurge, imo, is totally down to Napster and when Google added a search-video facility. A lot of music vids were already on the web in squinty - picture=bad, sound=bloody great. So when Napster's legit service went live and they started charging to rent DRM locked tracks, people moved on to cheaper alternatives. iTunes went off like a rocket at about the same time - so people were previewing for free with vids found through Google Video & buying through iTunes. Then YT came along and the only thing that changed was the files moved from squinty to watchable *.flv.
That's just what I think anyway. One's a collision of two huge mass fandoms and the latter's economics & market trends.
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I think IRC, thanks to the "I", is a slightly different beast, though.
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Which for some reason often means that I look at something in disgust as overly complex, then provide a how-to guide. With footnotes and tagging so you can find things.
'...what are you doing?'
'writing the manual on how to use the xml program for newbies. The old manual was shit and too vague.'
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