2012-04-11 (Wednesday)
Writing
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The value of our historical Instagram products
Looking at the potential value of all the Instagram photos we’ve taken, with regard to Karl Marx, John Lanchester and Matt Webb.
Links
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Your Choices | YourOnlineChoices UK
Opting out of ads that creepily follow you round the web. Includes advertising services that weren’t on the Network Advertising Initiative page I linked to a couple of weeks back. (via @rooreynolds)
Tweets
HTML/CSS/JS for Client 1; to Greenwich for ace Client 2 meeting; to office; fixes for Client 3; blog post; home; 4 Whit Stillman blog posts.
@jonty I think the system is only used by a minority of flats now. Not very eco-friendly and can be smelly.
@jonty I think the Barbican Estate Office organised it, but I don’t think I’ve heard of them doing so since.
@iamdanw @jonty A similar system was invented in 1927 bit.ly/IA5s5T (plus my photos of the Barbican’s bit.ly/IA5v1s )
@rooreynolds Yeah, I eventually went from intrigued to creeped out. Opting out of a bunch of ad networks has helped: bit.ly/6UHhvH
@holgate A pleasure. For once something nagging at my brain coincided with a moment of feasibly spare time at the computer.
I wrote this, poking at the idea of whether we’ve created Instagram’s value by posting our photos: bit.ly/I3hYbm
I'll need to watch 'Caine's Arcade' again, just to counteract all the grumpy ranting Twitter delivered to me this morning. Twice.
