On May 15th Aday.org asks you and people all around the world to pick up your cameras and picture what is close to you. In this unique photographic event, we will work together to create a unique documentation of daily life.
Professionals, amateurs, school children, farmers, social media fans, astronauts and office workers. Cell phone camera, Hasselblad, home made or borrowed. Aday.org is looking for the perspectives of everyone who enjoys photography. The goal is to inspire perspectives on humankind – today and tomorrow.
All images will be displayed online for you and everyone to explore. Some of them will be selected for a book, others will be displayed in digital exhibitions. Every single one will be saved for future research and inspiration.
Let a part of your life inspire generations to come. Share your perspective! Read more about the project and sign up at www.aday.org.
I transitioned our family’s blog from being hosted on Apple’s soon-to-be-cancelled iWeb service over to the ever-consistent WordPress service. For most people who just visit the website: http://webelfamily.com , you will not need to do anything different, that same address will now take you to the new location. However, if you subscribe to the blog using “RSS”, then the feed has changed and you’ll need to delete the old feed and re-subscribe to the blog’s new RSS feed!
There is also an option to have an Email sent to you every time the blog is updated, so if you are not into RSS, but you’d like to make sure you don’t miss any blog posts, click on the “+ Follow” button on the lower right corner of the blog and you’ll be prompted to enter your Email address.
Come by and visit the family blog and make a comment or two – Erica LOVES to get comments on her blog posts!
Here is a good article about protecting your privacy (and the privacy of all of your friends and family) online. Warning: this is a little bit on the geeky side!
You use passwords every day to access things like your phone, your email, and social networking. But are you really keeping yourself safe?
If there’s one thing people associate with modern technology, it’s passwords. They’re everywhere, and most of us use them for dozens of things every day. Yet most people are shockingly indifferent about their password security. Most of us probably know someone who uses the same password for everything, from their computer and email to their Facebook and bank accounts — and that password might be something as obvious as their birthday or the name of the street where they grew up. And we also probably know someone who has a sticky note on the side of their monitor labelled “Passwords” (in red, double-underlined) with a list of everything from Twitter to Netflix just sitting in the open for anyone to read.
Seems that “Twitter” is becoming the latest fad in social media, there was even a Twitter showdown of sorts over the weekend. However, as we’ve come to expect with anything technology related, the next best thing is always right around the corner…
BTW, you can follow me on Twitter if you’d like! ;-)
Okay, this is geeky, but I think it’s also kinda fun…
It’s called “usernamecheck” and what it does is check a few dozen of the most popular web 2.0 sites for any username you specify to see if it’s already taken or not!
Give it a whirl, I’ll warn you, there are a whole bunch of sites that I’ve never heard of… so I’m not so sure how useful much of this info actually is…
For those of you who’ve made the plunge into the world of Facebook, you’ve probably noticed something… it’s called “targeted advertising” and it can be a little hard on the ole ego.
Facebook targets its advertising to users based on the information in their profiles. This is not a new concept, of course. Kids usually see toy ads while they watch Nickelodeon, and women get ads for birth control pills as they watch Lifetime.
But Facebook’s data miners know much more about us because we tell them a whole lot more. Facebook knows my birthday, my relationship status and which book I’m reading, among other personal tidbits. The site started turning this information into dollar signs last November with the launch of Facebook Ads, which targets users’ presumed areas of interest (or psychological soft spots).
Basically, the subliminal goal of product advertising is to make you feel inadequate and ashamed, because you’re not perfect. Your teeth are yellow. Your armpits stink. You’re fat. And hairy.
I almost always get ads about “Learning Chinese” – how did they know my Mandarin stinks? Lately they’ve been asking me if I need help with a “gambling addiction” – huh?! Occasionally I think Facebook thinks I need to get a life, because it keeps asking me if I want to know about parties in Beijing.
FB must not have got the memo about my THREE kids if they think I’m gonna jump at an opportunity to party it up in Beijing!
Medill News Service reports that the Internet has become an out-of-control habit for more and more people. In fact, experts say that Internet addiction is a growing psychological and behavioral problem.
It’s estimated that 5% to 10% of Americans may be addicted to the Internet – that could mean as many as 30 million people. And, it’s an even bigger problem in other parts of the world. As many as 30% of the people living in China, Korea and Taiwan may be hooked.
Sounds like ‘quackery‘ to me. An additional revenue source for psychologist who make their living convincing wealthy people they are sick in one way or the other and that they can get better by coughing up some cash and sitting through some ‘sessions.’
I don’t deny that some folks may have issues, my guess though is that it’s a problem that goes deeper than “the internet.”
The percentages don’t even make sense. The report from ‘experts’ say that “30% of the people in China” are suffering from internet addiction… Based on the number of people in China who use the internet (38% according to the Pew Research Center), that would mean just about every person who uses the internet in China is also addicted to it… I don’t think so.
I guess with $4 dollar gas, everyone has to find new ways to get by. Airlines do this by charging for things you thought you already had paid for, it seems psychologists do this by inventing new ‘illnesses.’
On May 15th Aday.org asks you and people all around the world to pick up your cameras and picture what is close to you. In this unique photographic event, we will work together to create a unique documentation of daily life.
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