Episode 4 Show Notes
The fourth episode is an exciting adventure involving discussions of the various ways that you can “keep the magic alive” after you return from a trip to Walt Disney World or Disneyland. These ways to keep the Disney withdrawals at bay are certified as heart-healthy by some organization…probably.
One thing we discuss is social media. We talk about Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ during this segment. Our preferred form of social media is MySpace (jokes concerning this dinosaur never get old, do they?!). Actually, we like Twitter and Google+. You can find us on Twitter here. On Google+ here.
We further discuss editing photos and posting them to Flickr or 500px. There is no ISO 5571 Flickr or 500px group, but you can find each of us on both sites.
Finally, Tom discusses trip reports, scrapbooking, and making countdown calendars. (Click each of the linked-to words there to see some samples.)
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Hey! Loved the 4th show, as always, but again I’ve got a few comments.
Facebook:
There’s actually no limit to the size of a file you can upload. Facebook does compress photos when you upload, but it’s much better than it used to be.
That said, I agree with the idea that Facebook isn’t really the best place to share photography, though it’s worth noting that you’ll get a lot more people to view photos who are non-photographers if that’s what you’re after. (It all depends if you’re going for sharing with photographers or others.)
Also something really cool about Flickr and free accounts. I forget what the daily/monthly limit for photo uploads is, but you’re only allowed to have 200 photos in your photo stream showing at a time. HOWEVER, once you go over your limit, Flickr still keeps your old photos, but you can only get to them once you pay. So, technically, you could backup all your photos that fit within the limit, and then only pay once you need to download them again…
This podcast is definitely not Communist. Well, maybe we can’t say that for future episodes yet.
Good stuff, guys! Looking forward to more.
OK,
I really don’t understand the preferring of Twitter over Facebook. I only use Twitter to see the people that I care about that DONT use some other form of social media. I absolutely HATE the Twitter apps – it’s painful to see all of the information and comments on posts to follow through all the @ links.
I use the Twitter client on the web and on my phone, and I really really hate it. It drives me nuts when I see something like this: “@kurtmiller I know!”, then I have to click through 3 different conversations just to get the gist of what was being said. Facebook’s method of displaying conversations in a single scrolling stream and allowing you to ‘like’ certain comments and comment on those comments and to see ALL of that information in one list is far superior. Also, with Facebook, you get a little thumbnail of the picture that was posted. With Twitter, you get this: “Posted a picture: http://www.foobar.com/foobar.jpg“, again requiring me to click at least the post to see the image (maybe tweetdeck does a lot of this for you, I don’t know). With Facebook, I can just scroll through the stream and I can see everything at a glance with minimal clicking.
You guys mention that Facebook limits photo size, but Twitter doesn’t really allow you to store photos on it anyways – if you post a Flickr link on Facebook, your followers get the picture, a little snippet of the image’s Flickr Description, and a little thumbnail. How is this NOT better than just getting a crummy URL in Twitter.
I hear your complaints about people posting mundane things, but you can have the same stuff with Twitter. Tom and Ryan even mention that. Stop following those people, then.
I was getting all of those annoying app notifications in Facebook, but I just turned all of that crud off.
Am I missing something here?
I agree with you about Facebook. I prefer it to Twitter. Facebook is where I really create connections. It’s people I know and have things in common with. I also feel that Twitter is used more for advertisement than for the day-to-day activities. I haven’t been able to create any connections through Twitter since people rarely respond when you mention them or ask them a question. At least on Facebook the connections are already made. And for me I actually find it easier to share pictures on Facebook.
As I (think I) mentioned in the show, perhaps I’m just a bit biased against Facebook for Disney purposes because the people with whom I have connections there are from college (I’ve had Facebook since a few months after it first launched) and they don’t care about Disney. These are people with whom I want to keep in touch, so I don’t want to “unfriend” them. At some point I should probably go through and manage the lists better so that I post relevant content only to relevant groups.
I do find myself using Facebook a lot more as of late for my website’s Fan Page, but I still prefer Twitter. It’s not that it’s necessarily better…it’s just what I use.
As for Kurt’s complaints about Twitter’s interface, that is definitely an issue. A foreign Twitter competitor called Weibo does a much better job with this.
I’ve been enjoying the episodes so far.
I wanted to mention scrapbooking. A lot of people associate scrapbooking with the sticker sneeze layouts. Scrapbooking has really come a long way though. Digital scrapbooking is not new and I was happy to hear what Tom was doing. There are many communities online where you can get inspiration and supplies to be used in programs.
One topic I thought about a few times listening to your podcasts is technically perfect pictures vs. emotionally perfect pictures. As a scrapbooker, I prefer a not so good picture that truly makes me feel. As beautiful as some technically perfect pictures are, they leave me stale. They have no emotion to them. Of course the best pictures are those that do both. When you are shooting in the parks do you think about this or do you just shoot. I definitely know when I’m in the parks sometimes I feel like I should take a picture just because but when I get home I pass it over because it means nothing to me. If I can’t connect to a picture it doesn’t matter how technically perfect it is.