Category Archives: Technology

Thriving Industry of Facebook Like Farms

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I’d love to say I invented the phrase Like Farm, but it’s entirely possible I read it somewhere before as a brief search turned up other articles on the growing phenomenon. For awhile now, I’ve been watching my own news feed fill up with random images and slightly saccharine quotes. It’s been one of those things that ebbs and flows, but recently the flow has seemed stronger? Part of my recognizing this issue is an ongoing angst with how much of it is simply stolen content. I’m sure many of … Continue reading →

The One in Which Google Images Angers a Great Many Webmasters

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I don’t think Google’s latest changes to its image search has made many friends. Yet, outside of possibly visual artists and webmasters, I’m not sure the rest of the world cares yet. Still it’s been interesting reading all the fuss lately! What did Google do the rest of you may be wondering? Well, I’m sure a few of you along the way have used Google Images to search for something. Even if you didn’t directly search for an image, you may have seen image results on the first page mixed … Continue reading →

No Such Thing as Most Recent on Facebook

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I know, I know, the people who actually read my blathering posts are seeing the word “Facebook” in the title and sighing inwardly if not audibly. But it’s one of those topics that bubbles to the surface rather frequently. Today was because of a conversation amongst a group of photographers – of which I was a virtual fly on the wall. One stated that Facebook users are generally lazy. His feeling was that Facebook provides all these tools (interest lists, etc.) to pick and choose what people and pages they … Continue reading →

Facebook – Please Make Edgerank Optional

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I’ve posted more than my share of thoughts on Edgerank in my blog over the past several months. And as I’ve said before, I consider my speaking on this issue as to be in the same vein as commenting on an issue in one’s community. It’s not intended as a criticism so much as a concern about the future of a place I interact with friends, etc. For those who have missed the previous posts or stumbled onto this and have never heard of Edgerank. Edgerank is the name of … Continue reading →

Search Engines Should Reward Original Works

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That search engines such as Google should reward original work is a thought that I’ve had in mind for awhile now. I’ve even brought it up to friends and on various discussion boards several times. But I never quite got around to blogging about it until today. Today the idea came back to the top of my mind. I had a message from a friend. Not only had she run across one of my Egypt photos that was not credited to me. She had found it with the watermark of … Continue reading →

Facebook – Originality Not Rewarded

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This is the last post on the subject of Facebook and Edgerank for awhile, but today’s post is something I’ve had bubbling in the back of my head for awhile now. Each previous post on the subject this topic seemed too far off to include and those posts were long enough as it was. Before I go any further, I want to preface this post by saying that this is not an indictment on the things my friends share, just an observation about the way Facebook’s news feed currently operates … Continue reading →

Formulas for Relevance

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With great irony only a couple of days after my last post on Facebook’s new promote feature, I posted a new photo to my Facebook page and it wasn’t even relevant to me! Seriously, the only place my own post on my page appeared to me was in Facebook’s Ticker sidebar! I thought for a second, maybe Facebook flipped me to the “Top Stories” view and I hadn’t noticed. Nope, I was on most recent view and no amount of refreshing my browser brought my own page post into my … Continue reading →

Facebook Promoted Posts – Business As Usual?

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I’d been reading various places that Facebook was going to roll out “promoted posts” soon – most interestingly, the earlier bits of info. I’d read on it indicated it was for individuals not Facebook Business pages, i.e. you’d pay for your friends to read your news if it were dear enough to you… I still won’t be surprised if that comes to pass! As the option came to my own Facebook Page yesterday, I wondered what others thought about it and ran across this post that not only covers the … Continue reading →

Pinterest – More of the Same

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Well, today Pinterest released their revised terms of service and while I’m glad to see they’ve removed the language about “selling” things that are pinned, but I never thought that was a real thing to begin with. How were they to know whether material ‘pinned’ to their site was done so by someone who had the right to enter into that agreement in the first place? I look forward to hearing an actual lawyer’s take on the new TOS, but as far as I can tell, the liability issue remains, … Continue reading →