I’m getting around to reading some of the other articles in this month’s Time magazine. There are some short articles about how people are using the web, in conjunction with the Person of the Year article.
Ali Khurshid from Pakistan is profiled about his use of Flickr. Check out his photos – they’re really some beautiful, rich colored photos. As you can see, he has a simple camera, which captures amazing photos.
SHAKIL ADIL FOR TIME
Ali Khurshid takes a photograph at Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.“I love how the best pictures are usually taken with Holgas and other toy cameras,” he says. “It just confirms my belief that the eye is supreme in taking a brilliant photo. The camera is secondary.”
Then there’s the #1 reviewer on Amazon.com. She has almost 13,000 book reviews, which is a book every day for 35 years. I thought I read that wrong, but nope… she’s a freaky speed reader. This excerpt made me laugh out loud.
Now she goes through four to six books a day. “It’s incomprehensible to me that most people read only one book a week,” she says. “I don’t understand how anyone can read that slow.” (haha!)
…Klausner is a bookworm, but she’s no snob. She likes genre fiction: romance, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror. One of Klausner’s lifetime goals—as yet unfulfilled—is to read every vampire book ever published. “I love vampires and werewolves and demons,” she says.
And last but not least, Tila Tequila, the person on MySpace that has the most friends – over 1.5 million. I checked out her page and watched a couple videos. I like her. She’s really cute and seems to have a fun personality.
Her self-published single, the profane and attitudinous F___ Ya Man, now playing on her MySpace page, has logged 13 million spins. (To listen to it is to hear the sound track of a million parents’ dreams dying.)
“There’s a million hot naked chicks on the Internet,” she says. “There’s a difference between those girls and me. Those chicks don’t talk back to you.”
I think I’m too old. I don’t get MySpace. I’d rather have five friends that visit my blog than five-hundred that I barely know. The other night, I thought I’d give it a chance. The furthest I got was signing up for a MySpace. I couldn’t bring myself to do anything with it after that.
December 18th, 2006 at December 18, 2006 - 2:19 pm
i don’t have a huge number of friends on myspace, and the ones i do have are all pretty much people i know personally or bands i really enjoy. i like that it is sort of a simple way to blog for people who wouldn’t normally blog and i can read about what all my friends are doing and stay in touch with them more easily. human interaction is down the drain, i guess, first it was the pop-in (but who wants to go out in the cold on a three day wagon ride just to say hi), then letters (too difficult, too slow), then the phone call (even that’s a chore sometimes now), then email (ummm…) and now…it’s the myspace comment…takes a second, gets instant gratification!
i also like to use myspace to check out indie bands and advertise my blog and photos.
http://www.myspace.com/thesecondlayer
December 18th, 2006 at December 18, 2006 - 3:31 pm
I think in the coming year, I’ll give it a try. I’m trying to figure this Wordpress thing first, before putting my energy into myspace.
You’re right though, it’s really easy for people to just drop a couple of lines… especially since EVERYBODY and their kid sister has myspace. I would practically hear the word “myspace” used at least once a day when I took classes at PSU.
December 19th, 2006 at December 19, 2006 - 7:47 am
I don’t have a myspace, I haven’t even heard of it before! Phatgirl, are you ashamed to know me?
December 19th, 2006 at December 19, 2006 - 10:48 am
You haven’t even heard of myspace?!? Are you guys still riding horse drawn carriages and churning your own butter in Edmonton??? Your students probably have a myspace… if they could reach the keyboard to type, that is.
I’m not ashamed of you!
It’s nice to have someone that still sends me snail mail.