Posterous-Flickr-Twitter

Posterous-Flickr-Twitter

Writing: Blog entry - define your technology as an electronic writing space and/or tool and give it’s history (can be in as many entries as you see fit – make some rhetorical choices).
I find it fascinating that there are so many outlets for different interests of exposing or working with one’s interests in the arts-literature. Other than the three I have mentioned, I have signed up for four others as well to see how they all interact with my life.
My assignment was made easy by Thao our teaching assistant; she has been my savior throughout this digital learning curve. She recommended Posterous. The text book definition of Posterous which is a simple micro blogging platform started in May, 2009 funded by Y Combinator. It boasts integrated and automatic posting to other ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous.
The definition and history of Posterous indicates through its claims, that its the most innovative blogging platform available today. Evidently, Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. Email at post@posterous.com which replies instantly to your posterous blog. Using email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. Posterous has designed a blogging platform where the entire focus is on email. Evidently you can jump over to your drafts folder to start or continue a post.
Attachments-When you attach files to an email post, posterous acts intelligently. Photos are resized and become slideshows, videos are flash encoded (!) and embedded, mp3s are added to a flash player and links are parsed. (i.e. youtube links are replaced with an embedded player)

FLICKR

Flickr is another tool/space that I have not been familiar with. This past weekend I signed up and paid my US $ 24.95 for one year as well a gift certificate to my friend in Vietnam. It seems to be a program I can use. I probably have 10,000 accumulated photos plus, from family and travels. Recently, my obsession with Vietnam, has added another several thousand. I need to organize them if I am ever to use them. Flickr seems like a good space to begin?
Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004.
Axel Bruns, in BLOGS, WIKIPEDIA, SECOND LIFE, and BEYOND, points out in number of interesting facts and ideas associated with Flickr.
Flicker is the home to an increasingly active range of communities engaging in produsage proper, and indeed showcases through its tools and services especial the communal and collaborative aspects of produsage. Flickr provides a range of means for setting up groups and communities of users, and collecting images on the site into photographic ‘pools’; this has given rise in the first place to groups which collect and comment on photos defined by certain common characteristics (ranging from specific subject matter to geographic commonalities shared by photos or photographers, as well as to particular photographic and other techniques employed in create the works).
Flickr-in concert with now standard image editing tools and software-also provides a space for communities engaged in the active co-creation of content, however: groups such as aptly named ‘remix’ community on Flickr, for example engage in the mutual reediting and remixing of one another’s content as contributed by members of the group…it is evident that Flickr is in reality a ‘Space’ for sharing any form of still image, not only of conventional photography (234-235).
Produsage: highlights that within the communities which engage in the collaborative creation and extension of information and knowledge the role of ‘consumer’ and even that of ‘end user’ have long disappeared, and the distinctions between producers and users of content have faded into comparative insignificance. I many of he spaces we encounter here, users are always already necessarily also produces of the shared knowledge base, regardless of whether they are aware of this role-they have become a new, hybrid, produser (2).

TWITTER-
I signed up for this several days ago. From the explanations of its function, it appears to be a tool, in the sense that it is an information access system. Twitter’s sight states: Twitter’s system attracts millions of users globally as it gives users the chance to get real time information about anything that might be occurring in the world in a simple way. With an increasing velocity of tweets, it has become an escalating challenge to find data from this real-time information archive, made even more difficult by the limitations of the company’s default search engine, which only displays information in the last week to two weeks.

Searchtastic is a system that has the capability to search for historical tweets and provide users with an improved search functionality that happens to be better than the one displayed by twitter itself by default. The site was designed in a simple way and users can search for the most relevant tweets and tweeters in a totally uncomplicated way. Like other Twitter search sites, Searchtastic lets you search Tweets for a particular keyword or hashtag. It provides instant access to the most followed users on the Top 100 page. What makes the search engine interesting is the ability to pull up Tweets from weeks or months ago, which Twitter’s own search engine doesn’t allow you to do. Searchtastic is currently in beta. The company behind this application is open to your feedback as well as any media or business development inquiries – if you have any thoughts.
Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Since late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors.[3][4] All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as "SMS of the Internet."[5] The use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving text messages by other applications often eclipses direct use of Twitter. What we have to do is deliver to people the best and freshest most relevant information possible. We think of Twitter as it's not a social network, but it's an information network. It tells people what they care about as it is happening in the world.
—Evan Williams [6]