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Post by Milowent on Nov 12, 2013 10:23:31 GMT -5
yeah, i've never liked Facebook's forum capabilities, i've found it odd they've never branched that out, but neither did myspace or bebo, so they must feel the functionality is not needed.
there is a news trend now of reporting that younger people are not using facebook as much, and are migrating to places like instagram and snapchat, which are really much more simple social networks with one or two leading features. facebook has been dominant, for what, five years now? that's a long time in internet years. although the rate of change on the internet seems to be slower, i have to imagine that facebook will lose its dominance at some point.
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Post by Milowent on Nov 12, 2013 9:41:56 GMT -5
hadn't seen ThugNotes before, I am learning how much i've been missing by not having Anchor Cove peeps to keep me informed. YouTube's educational offerings really have grown well. I've enjoyed John & Hank Green's 'crashcourse' history videos. They are really packed with information and humor, I've gotten my two older kids to watch some of them. I find myself having to explain some of the jokes, because i want them to know about history *and* obscure humor. :-) www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
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Post by Milowent on Nov 12, 2013 9:34:11 GMT -5
I love that he's like an urban legend these days So people still remember MMbot? He is still out there? Did anyone ever uncover even a little of who he was? He was so mysterious. Hi its Chris/Zane. Used my facebook avatar to be more recognisable with this name. Milo already got excited and asked me if it was a anagram to solve welcome chris! :-) i've had some communications with modelmotion in the past six months, around the disappearance of lgpedia. miles says he's working on it, in response to tweet-bombs orchestrated by mm. (i'm sure GREAT THINGS are RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER on that. haha.) i've messaged mm about this board via facebook, but he remains mysterious in many ways.
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Post by Milowent on Nov 12, 2013 8:26:24 GMT -5
Hi Jenni! Nice to see you around I tried to find the Miles one that MKU sang (perhaps whilst drunk?)... I need to hear that again! what?!?! that one you'd think i'd remember!
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Post by Milowent on Nov 12, 2013 8:24:29 GMT -5
to translate this all to my language, Geek & Sundry is the best record label any band would want to be on. :-)
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Post by Milowent on Nov 12, 2013 8:20:41 GMT -5
like one day i'd never heard of her, then I heard "Royals" one time on KROQ (LA music statoin), and then it was on every local station everywhere. until right now (when I looked) I even thought her album name was "Pure Heroin" which is a lot more badass than "Pure Heroine". however they created "Lorde", they must be rich now.
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Post by Milowent on Nov 12, 2013 8:14:38 GMT -5
welcome romy, micfranxon, jenni, TJ, and anyone else I missed! great to see you all!
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 22:45:43 GMT -5
I wonder what the appeal of networks really is? What are the benefits and do they outweigh the headaches? Anyway... its more of a manager/agent relatonship than a network, isn't it? someone to get you to do the shit you actually need to do, with connections.
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 21:54:32 GMT -5
Welcome skunk! Good to see ya! I miss the #breefm and irc generally! Matthias says that modelmotion still lurks on some of those rooms even now!
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 19:21:36 GMT -5
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 19:00:01 GMT -5
Remember when people used to learn html and make home pages? HOMEPAGES! when i first got on the internet in '96, i used to love to check out this "worst website of the day" site, which was sometimes someone's terrible home page. Then MySpace and Facebook came along and now people just have generic profile pages. I think it is the same with message boards. Back in the day, I used to be a big Usenet person because I liked being able to discuss different topics from politics to TV shows. Now Usenet is mostly doa with most ISPs no longer carrying it. Mass sites like Twitter are convenient for blurting out short 'observations' but do nothing for creating communities and in depth discussion. exactly, it seems the format of a message board should still have some traction whenever web 3.0 comes along. its not an exciting technology to wall street, but having a dedicated place to have threaded discussions allows more interaction than twitter ever could.
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 12:04:35 GMT -5
I recently ran across this July 2011 post by Virginia Heffernan (before she left the NYTimes for Yahoo) about the declining health of online message boards. Do you agree? I don't know if this has been more broadly discussed, but it seems to me message boards provide a means of healthy conversation and communication that sites like twitter and facebook don't really encourage, so there should still be a place for them even in 2013. Most message boards I used to participate in have gone defunct in the past few years, including yahoogroups boards, ning sites, etc. Reddit is sort of like a forum, but sort of its own animal. Forum-central large sites like fark are continuing to survive, but tons of smaller forums have not. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/remembrance-of-message-boards-past/
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 11:53:11 GMT -5
I actually think the Guild is a poor example as it would probably be even more successful if launched today. YouTube audiences are much more use to watching series via the web these days then they were 6 years ago. Plus a niche show about video games is perfect for YouTube - just look at Video Game High School. I don't know. I'm not really following "webseries" per se anymore, but I sorta sensed that's the way it is more generally - no one is paying much attention to them as a genre. There has never been a "Guild 2", and if there was a viable market for it, you'd think it would happen by now. Internet is merging with TV, but the movement coming more from the TV side than internet side, don't you think? People watch TV using DVRs all the time, having the watch a show when its "live" is the exception now, not the norm. TV shows can be more complex now since viewers can follow difficult storylines by not missing any episodes (and using the internet to confirm plotlines if necessary), and binge-viewing is easy to do. If a show is only available online, people can watch it on their TVs, its becoming easier to do that. The YouTube music awards that were recently held were only streamed only, but that fact wasn't a big deal as it would have been in 2007.
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 10:07:44 GMT -5
Also, what ever happened to that guy jackwinderberry? he disappeared, unlike me, i guess.
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Post by Milowent on Nov 11, 2013 9:53:09 GMT -5
Terry & Lisa are pretty spot on. (and I totally forgot about VanillaFlava's site!) We were in IRC one night, I believe it was Sept 4, 2006, discussing that the phorum at lonelygirl15.com was getting very busy but no one was actively moderating it, but that the people behind the show were probably also following our investigations too closely and would be acting to foil us. (The contradiction of the Creators having no time to moderate, but having all the time in the world to crack our private messages and divert our sleuthing theories went unnoticed.) Alissa simply went to proboards.com and started the site while we were discussing needing the fan-run site. That's why the url was "alissabrooke.proboards.com", alissa just used her screen name instead of thinking of an lg15-centric name (which soon occurred to her as a dumb move, but it was too late ...) The first person to join after Alissa posted the link was John Green, who was in IRC at the time. The site was busy and active *immediately*. The Message from the Creators came on September 7th (crashing the lonelygirl15.com site and thus helping anchor cove), and the frenzy continued. The start: alissabrooke.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=bin&thread=1617&page=1Here is the timeline of lg15 hunt i created back in september 2006:
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