Flux & flexibility

I was especially struck by the sentence I've bolded here:

Technorati : ACD, social_networking, teen_girls
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Dayumm, I just identified the chick who dumped me from her MySpace friends. From Phuket Province, Thailand, subsequently to become famous for tragic reasons, but living in Bangkok, her flirty notes in my comments section gave me a boost in the months I was trying to shake off the sadness of a breakup. It is odd that one can feel so hurt about losing so very tenuous a friendship. Come to think of it, I felt something akin when Xanga friend Stacey in Michigan -- who talked me into getting a digital camera -- rehabilitated herself by enrolling at a Christian university, stopped posting pictures of herself and blew off all of us lechers.

About that camera -- I'm so excited and impatient about the low-light Fujifilm Finepix F30 that is imminently to be available. Supporting the suspicion is that B&H Photo today started listing a price for it, $10 less than what J&R had been advertising for pre-order. The one annoyance with the Canon Elph has been that it just isn't okay for low light when one cannot keep the camera steady. And the flash looks awful! This Finepix model even has a mode where it will quickly take the same picture with and without flash.

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Attention Crave Disorder (ACD) -- this is the explanation for the popularity of online web communities this century: AsianAvenue, Xanga, Friendster and now, almost notoriously, MySpace. I was so pleased with this insight after first talking about it in my LiveJournal blog. Actually , it started days earlier when I observed competitive preening of chicks in a classroom. Then I saw this Sinfest strip featuring Monique. And as I walked through Central Park this evening, I saw the celestial revelation that Attention Crave Disorder (ACD) is the reason for the MySpace boom.

Too bad that Technorati has already associated ACD with "Activity-centered design." (WTF?) Can I change perception of the acronym.

Incidentally, I felt guilty that I neglected mention in my last post of my #1 MySpace girl, Sara from Albuquerque, who was a freshman at University of Vancouver when she consented to be my friend. A more easy-going, fun-loving good soul would be hard to find -- I remember her joking that she was my first non-Asian. The reason for that was that I was very used to knowing only Asians online because of my initial experiences in the heyday of AsianAvenue. Even when I joined MySpace, figuring I'd use my presence there to promote Firefox, it seems to me that Asians still were by far the largest contingent. Only in the last year has an older WASP demographic moved in, I think. And the truth is that MySpace isn't as interesting as AsianAvenue was five years ago. I still think somebody can move in and steal Tom and Rupert's lunch.

Technorati : ACD, Attention_Crave_Disorder, MySpace
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The first news as I compose this (using the Performancing extension in Flock 0.7) is that I easily established a claim in Technorati. [The bad news is that nothing from Performancing took with Technorati, so I'm revising and reposting using the Zoundry blog editor.] After I've published whatever here I'll be best able to see how effective at getting tag notifications out to the world this is. If the test is passed, I'll have to buckle down to meddling with the template. Truth told, it was the ease of altering the LiveJournal template that made me use that as blog home. But, I now see that it makes good sense to have different blogs for different facets of my interests. Making the Blogger/Blogspot site specific to audio codecs and especially the hot new HE-AAC format seems an outstanding idea, since I discovered I am the source of most English language tags on that. But, what best would fit here I do not yet know. [Yeah, now I do -- this blog is to exploit the monicker "Attention Crave Disorder" -- ACD. I'm gonna try to make it the new buzz phrase!]
I made one of my ever less frequent visits to MySpace last night, just to check in the SpreadFirefox group. My reason for joining two years ago was that I didn't think Mozilla developers were taking needs of teens into account. Most definitely, they weren't offering support to help the user of Xanga, Friendster or Myspace who couldn't see her friends' dogs'-dinner pages of plugins. And, as it turned out, the initial release of Firefox 1.5 was a wretched mistake because the testers overseen by Peter(6) didn't do any testing in such sites. That was the reason that horrific memory leaks came out in an official release.
When I looked in MySpace today (I'd asked Justin, the lead hacker for Kiko.com, to be my friend -- he accepted, w00t, w00t!), I discovered that there had been 140 page hits in eight hours. Not that I gained friends -- I actually lost one. But I did see that a rising Pinay model named Rashel had read my bread-and-butter note thanking her for commenting me back after I'd congratulated her on a contract at Wihelmina. [Reminds me of that 17-year-old, Malaysian Mui on AsianAvenue who got over 500 love notes per day and actually responded to a fair number.] I discovered Rashel from a pic in the comments section on Thuy Li's page, whom I fell for initially via a page with stolen pics by a girl named Vicky in Honolulu. Thuy has a policy of not responding to anyone unless they're fellow dancers, import car show models or customers at LA clubs. Presumably that has to do with her move into a commercial adult-rated web model business. Anyway, I couldn't see the point of having her as a friend, so she's now in my long history of girls I loved and lost. ***sigh***
In the SpreadFirefox group on MySpace were a few comments on experiences with IE7. I proffered that an increasing number of Web 2.0 apps are really designed for Firefox and some won't work at all in IE. What's so much fun in that is that I still remember drumming up a protest in MySpace when "Tom" sent a message to all asking that we use IE only and not Firefox.

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I had a free LJ account and was getting pings into Technorati, but that's stopped working.
Now I have to find an alternative.