ersinhan ersin: tapeography - "turkish designer ersinhan ersin deconstructed old cassette tapes to create a series of images and typography he calls tapeography." http://www.designboom.com/weblog...
turkish designer ersinhan ersin deconstructed old cassette tapes to create a series of images and typography he calls tapeography. the handmade font was originally created for a school project about music, but ersin carried the concept to a variety of projects. the letters are made from the tape’s ribbon and pieces of the mechanics. by rearranging the elements, ersin is able to create letters from the alphabet and images such as a skull and cross bones. http://www.behance.net/ersinha...
- Ebru Baranseli
I'm confused: why is it FFers complain about strangers, "rude new comers" noise, etc etc etc but will then turn around and talk about how FF growth is flat? Call me crazy, but you can't have growth without newbies folks.
+1 Tina. I agree. If you keep chasing off newcomers, you're doing more harm than good to FF. Sure, spammers should be run off. But if someone is just annoying to you, that's no justification for attacking them and chasing them away from FF.
- Jason Huebel
Complaining for some is their normal interaction with the world. When we all started using social media tools, we were all aggravating to a degree. Need to lay off the newbies a bit, unless they are going down the path of relentless marketing and get rich quick posts, then it is smackdown time! ;-)
- Eban Crawford
I think my example this week with VerothicA from deviantART is a good one. I could have easily blocked the user and thrown abuse back but I don't see that as being healthy for me, for the other user and for the community.
- Kol Tregaskes
I thought it was the old timers who were annoying. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm passionate about new users as the services needs them to grow and feel that FF doesn't support them very well, e.g. no proper tutorial upon completing registration and the issue with the suggested users list. It's one reason why I've created the FF-Beginners group here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... and why I check for new users (as best I can) daily and welcome them aboard.
- Kol Tregaskes
Scoble, is that you trying to instigate a "Get off my lawn!" moment? ;-) I definitely try to welcome the new users I come across and answer any questions as best I can. And yes, I've run into people who make me want to bash my head in with a ball peen hammer in the process (both new and old), but I handle them the same way I do in real life: polite interactions only when necessary.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I do have to admit it's taken me quite a while to find my feet here at FF. It also took me some time to find my way on Twitter, too. I'm finding myself using both services for different things now. It also takes me more effort to find people I'd like to subscribe to on FF for some reason. Maybe because new people keep getting chased off? ;-)
- Darren Landrum
You mean kind of like how the flood of AOL newbies helped grow the Internet back when? But please let's not restart to old game of duping them in to posting "me too" like back in the alt.news days. ;)
- Michael Leonard
Darren, my first month on FF was no fun at all. I followed maybe 30 people, no one was following me, and I got my main feed in my feed reader. The result? No interaction on the items I posted, I didn't interact on items other people posted, and the posts that DID get interaction drove me nuts by reappearing all the time in my feed reader. Once I threw my hands up and decided to just hang out here and have fun with it, my experience completely changed..
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It definitely takes time to understand how Friendfeed works. I was lucky when I joined in that a few people subscribed right away, so I got to see some interaction in progress from the start. Even so it took a few weeks to really learn the system.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I think starting on FF can be hard, people don't follow you automatically when you follow them as many do on Twitter, if you don't have a decent feed no one subscribes to you but it is unlikely you will have the motivation to have a decent feed with no audience. On Twitter you will be followed mostly by bots and people that will never read your tweets but your followers count increases...
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- M F
I think a new user tutorial should include an live interactive post and comment part at the end, with something generic like "Hi just joined FriendFeed" in the title. Then us old users could choose to have a saved search that seeks out these posts and welcomes the new user?
- Kol Tregaskes
Well, I just decided to turn off all of the "Publish FF to Twitter" options on my account here. No need to look in two different places for replies to something I published to only one. I think this will help me adapt a lot.
- Darren Landrum
I don't know, Kol, that almost seems kind of forced. With the system as it is now, I as a new user would probably find good people to follow by search. If there's an interactive signup tutorial, perhaps it'd be worthwhile to have a part where you enter three words or phrases that you're interested in. Me, I'd pick 'hilarious', science, and a specific turn of phrase. Use those words and setup custom searches in the tutorial, and you have a ready-made list of people with interests similar to your own.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I will make people mad but... SOME early adopters get BIG on a site when its just early adopters there... then Mainstreamers get involved... and they wanna see kitties and boobs and not talk about bandwidth and apps and unique visitors! But there is way more of them and the numbers are moved off the Techie Early adopters and it goes to a Kardashian... This pisses off SOME early adopters and they bitch about the newbies. Then they move to a new product. Cycle of life! (My uneducated thoughts!)
- Cody Heitschmidt
You have a point, Cody, but I really do think FF offers features that can prevent that. 1) Only subscribe to people when you want to see the MAJORITY their content. 2) Hide imported services you don't want to see. 3) Use saved searches to find content of interest to you based on keywords rather than poster. I post a lot of useless crap so I don't expect certain people to follow me....
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I completely agree with you FF Kicks a huge pile of ass. i love it. i was just trying to give my opinion on why early adopters (again just SOME of them) bitch about newbies. Early Adopters are famous in the Early to Kinda early adopter crowd, but 75% of the world never heard of Robert Scoble (maybe more) (I use Scoble as an example cause I don't consider him a whiny early adopter, the...
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- Cody Heitschmidt
"Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading, tracking and kerning. We have selected 60 Most Stunning Typography Inspiration of All Time. Please feel free to suggest your favourite ones as well. Enjoy."
- A. Khmelevsky™
from Bookmarklet
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Wizetux: I think the word "suspect" went away as soon as he fired off his gun. Haha. I bet the description "clean underwear" went away as soon as he saw that dog clear the car roof.
- d.l.martin
this is so crazy! i cant believe the dog jumps over the car like that! i just retweeted this.
- Jason Pollock
The cops came around the bowling alley after all the customers left and ended up doing a training exercise with the dog. Someone put on a sleeve. It was awesome!
- Rodfather
Oops !!! are you sure that is dog ??? :)))
- CRASH3R
That's incredible. Not one iota of hesitation.
- Rick Cogley
training exercise but that dog would do the same in real - and a few bites are better than a bullet even for the perpetrator.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
actually technically he said "martini's are like nipples," etc., I was trying to PG-it a bit. Turns out he's a self professed "nipples guy," whole table was laughin their heads off. And so began the evening...
- Marko Bon
"Alfie, a 10-year-old Shire-cross, is said to flee if he thinks he is in danger of getting even a trim.The horse also refuses to let staff at the stables in Bitton, Gloucestershire, into his stall there for fear that they will remove his whiskers."
- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet
That cat is Canadian, so I think we can consider this International Terrorism... take appropriate action, people, before it sings.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
The generation after me is even worse - no common sense, common courtesy, manners, critical thinking skills, ugh. They make me sick. Wow, I feel old lolol.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you think so? Do you have any statistics on this?
- Meryn Stol
every generation feels that of the next ones - they forget how young, clueless, unaware etc. they were at that same age, and they think they had it harder, had to work more, had to fight more than the younger generations. rinse, repeat :D Every generation also think that the older generations don't "get" things, that they have figured out things the previous generations haven't, and...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Ok so Mona is joking? I really don't know how the next generation is doing. When I read about the dire state of the American school system, I can get worried at times.
- Meryn Stol
Joelle, that may be common sense to you, but where did you get this wisdom? I like to believe you of course, but my question is, do we have any hard facts to support this?
- Meryn Stol
I don't have statistics but I work with a bunch of idiot interns that only do what they are told - mixed backgrounds, a lot from top tier schools. We're working on a new employee filtering process.
- Mona Nomura
So, you weren't joking?? Ok, confusing this.
- Meryn Stol
What I'm suspecting is that all these generations are far from homogeous, and that some people are observing the elite, while others the bad apples. - or anything in between. Maybe the differences within groups are getting larger. Today, a smart kid can teach himself five languages and all the sciences all through the internet. Just as well, a smart kid can get sucked up into games or drugs and practically not learn anything.
- Meryn Stol
Not to say that games absolutely don't teach you anything, but only playing games can result in a kind of limited skill-set.
- Meryn Stol
It has more to do with ego. Because they think they know everything, they are arrogant and a lot of the times, lazy and unreasonable.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, don't most people think they know everything? Given that, there'd just be difference of opinion. I mean, are you willing to consider that they are right and *you* are wrong in cases?
- Meryn Stol
Also, it's somewhat understandable if people are not willing to work hard for superiors which they consider stupid, or when they've been given "stupid" work (like: an ineffective method of achieving something, or a goal which they don't care for).
- Meryn Stol
Meryn - I don't mind my statements being questioned but my objective here is not a philosophical exchange or 'learning about myself'. That said, to specify: they think they know more, compared to other generations - especially armed with Google.
- Mona Nomura
Well maybe because they're armed with Google, they actually do know more. It could be. Digital literacy is very empowering.
- Meryn Stol
The reason for my inquiry is merely to understand how I should place your previous assertions.
- Meryn Stol
Utilizing only one source is insufficient more often times than not, to back up bold statements and actions. Thus, leading back to lack of critical thinking skills. To add, digital knowledge is empowering when utilized resourcefully.
- Mona Nomura
Hmm.. You think people in earlier generations actually keep track of their sources for their knowledge? One known source (say Wikipedia) can be better than not knowing where your knowledge came from. Indeed, multiple sources makes you safer. But I think you're in 0.1% of the adult population who do this. You're talking about academics then I think.
- Meryn Stol
meryn, most of my sources is the amusement you can get from reading texts from roman and medieval times writing about the youth of the day, and saying things that you hear people say today etc.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"Also, it's somewhat understandable if people are not willing to work hard for superiors which they consider stupid, or when they've been given "stupid" work (like: an ineffective method of achieving something, or a goal which they don't care for)." <--- that's their problems. All work, even "stupid work" is work. If they really think something is ineffective - prove it. Most superiors (if they are effective managers) are open to suggestions, not complaints.
- Mona Nomura
@Mona but... you don't use Wikipedia http://friendfeed.com/e... , so you are *baby boomer against gen Y* case too ;)
- A.T.
Joelle, you're basing yourself on the "patterns" in how people speak then. This can be a very strong indicator. Some people can recognize "defensive" language, "skeptical" language, or "condescending" language and such. This kind of emotional states (for lack of a better word) put to writing can give indication that there some psychological "biases" at work, instead of pure objective analysis.
- Meryn Stol
Joelle, may I ask how you would characterize the kind of language you're talking about? What you're recognizing? I wonder what kind of adjective you'd choose for that.
- Meryn Stol
*Waves* Exception to this, both as employee and employer. Though, the article wasn't actually all negative.
- joey
A.T., I just do not have the tolerance or patience to deal with know-it alls. If you yapp, back it up, otherwise shut up.
- Mona Nomura
of course it is about how people feel, my claim was about how each generation seems to feel similar patterns towards those before and after tham, all the while feeling very much unique and different in history
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle, yes, I understand. How would you call that? Feeling "superior"? Feeling "morally superior"?
- Meryn Stol
I'm now looking in my thesaurus: Patronizing, haughty, disdainful?
- Meryn Stol
Aren't we just talking Generation Gap 101 here? Gen Y works well with other Gen Y's, but less so with Gen X, and even less so with Boomers. Each generation is motivated by different things, and in different ways. The negative attitudes usually emerge because one generation doesn't understand what motivates the previous or subsequent generation. This is a prime example of why it's often times better to listen with the intent to learn, rather than speak with the intent to judge.
- Rick Kaiser
"This is a prime example of why it's often times better to listen with the intent to learn, rather than speak with the intent to judge." How did you become so wise, Rick? :)
- Meryn Stol
I don't see this as wisdom. We all know this. We just need to be reminded sometimes.
- Rick Kaiser
"The experience of 'looking out of the corner of the eye' using peripheral vision is commonplace but it conceals a unusual fact about attention. That is that we probably spend a lot more of our time than we might imagine with our 'mind's eye' looking in a different direction to our eyeballs."
- April Russo (app103)
from Bookmarklet
This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor.
- Robert Scoble
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;)
- Moved to Facebook
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it.
- April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know.
- Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost)
- Naor Mark
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum.
- Andrew Leyden
Heath And Safety in the UK would not approve....but I do!
- Toby Graham
"but has only earned 62 likes". This currently stands as the most-liked Flickr photo of all time.
- Vezquex: God of FF
I forgot about that photo. It does work, though. Everytime I visit friendfeed's offices I see the dollar and I'm careful not to trip over it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
That's dumb. Why couldn't they afford to run the cord somewhere where it wouldn't be in the way in the first place?
- Robert Peña
As an IE I can state that's definitely not something to publicize. Definitely not OSHA Kosher.
- Adi
Reminds me of the deli counter in grocery store in Scotts Valley across the street from NorCal offices of MetaCreations (the Fractal Design arm of it). Local companies'd go there for lunch daily. PROBLEM: Deli counter pencils (for marking your sandwich menu) disappeared at frightful rate. SOLUTION: Deli affixed pencils with price label. Price: $100.00. Pencils stayed at store. :)
- Susan A. Kitchens
Haha I like that trick for keeping Pens from going missing Susan!
- Garin Kilpatrick
It;s tough to tell.. Ii am always left asking what exactly does a woman prefer? I guess it all comes down to neatness, if it looks good keep it.. else leave.. seriously i have seen people on whom a mustache doesn't suit one tiny bit.. yet they keepp those long ones.... correction HUGE ones
- Sardar Mohkim Khan