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Good Morning
Oct. 17th, 2016 07:46 am
Maple pancakes perhaps?
Oct. 17th, 2016
Maple pancakes perhaps?
Mostly it has been a day of reading and listening to the radio plus listening to some CD's. I have been reading some more on modern European art from the Impressionists. I have been reading another few pages from the Letters To Sartre, and started to read the other Joan Didion book my brother gave me.
One of the programs on BBC Radio 4 i was listening to was The Digital Human. The half hour programme today was discussing the online early webcam history of Jennifer Ringley who started the first livecaster account of her everyday day life. For those early starters of the internet she is known for creating the popular website JenniCam. Previously, live webcams transmitted static shots from cameras aimed through windows or at coffee pots. Ringley's innovation was simply to allow others to view her daily activities. She was the first web-based "lifecaster". In June 2008, CNET hailed JenniCam as one of the greatest defunct websites in history.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z414z
"In the spring of 1996, an enterprising American college student named Jennifer Ringley connected a webcam to her computer and began seven years of uninterrupted self-exposure. JenniCAM, as she eventually named it, was the first no-holds-barred lifelogging experiment on the world wide web. Every 15 seconds, the webcam uploaded another still image - from the mundane to the erotic - exposing the uncensored life of a young woman coming of age.
The web at the time of JenniCAM was still in its infancy: this was before Google made it navigable, before the dotcom bubble began to inflate, and before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was out of short trousers. Compared with the modern world of universal broadband access, instant feedback and streaming video, it was achingly slow: websites with pictures took entire minutes to download, and publishing anything required expert knowledge in at least one computer language.
JenniCAM represented our self-aware future, the place we inhabit in the second decade of the 21st century, now that 82% of American adults use the web, and the average amount of time we spend online doubles every five years. We have evolved into the people that JenniCAM represented: both the voyeur and the viewed.
Twenty years after Jennifer first switched on her webcam, we retrace some of her steps and wonder why, at a time when everyone else has gone online, she's switched off..."
Fascinating radio.
One of the programs on BBC Radio 4 i was listening to was The Digital Human. The half hour programme today was discussing the online early webcam history of Jennifer Ringley who started the first livecaster account of her everyday day life. For those early starters of the internet she is known for creating the popular website JenniCam. Previously, live webcams transmitted static shots from cameras aimed through windows or at coffee pots. Ringley's innovation was simply to allow others to view her daily activities. She was the first web-based "lifecaster". In June 2008, CNET hailed JenniCam as one of the greatest defunct websites in history.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z414z
"In the spring of 1996, an enterprising American college student named Jennifer Ringley connected a webcam to her computer and began seven years of uninterrupted self-exposure. JenniCAM, as she eventually named it, was the first no-holds-barred lifelogging experiment on the world wide web. Every 15 seconds, the webcam uploaded another still image - from the mundane to the erotic - exposing the uncensored life of a young woman coming of age.
The web at the time of JenniCAM was still in its infancy: this was before Google made it navigable, before the dotcom bubble began to inflate, and before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was out of short trousers. Compared with the modern world of universal broadband access, instant feedback and streaming video, it was achingly slow: websites with pictures took entire minutes to download, and publishing anything required expert knowledge in at least one computer language.
JenniCAM represented our self-aware future, the place we inhabit in the second decade of the 21st century, now that 82% of American adults use the web, and the average amount of time we spend online doubles every five years. We have evolved into the people that JenniCAM represented: both the voyeur and the viewed.
Twenty years after Jennifer first switched on her webcam, we retrace some of her steps and wonder why, at a time when everyone else has gone online, she's switched off..."
Fascinating radio.
Just Wondering
Oct. 17th, 2016 06:39 pmWhat is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
Who made the last incoming call on your phone?
Do you have a door bell, a door knocker or something else?
Who made the last incoming call on your phone?
Do you have a door bell, a door knocker or something else?
31 Days Of Halloween #17
Oct. 17th, 2016 06:43 pm
Seeing this has made me wonder and hence i pose this question.
Have you ever taken part in ballet or had any ballet training?
A big 9-0!
Oct. 17th, 2016 06:55 pmLorna's mum has reached the great age of 90! Here is a pic of L and her mum.
and another one.
and another one.
Monday Music Selection - Mixed up
Oct. 17th, 2016 07:43 pmI haven't done a selection of tunes for awhile , so here is a mixed bag of them.
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
( More music here )
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
( More music here )
Recent Pics
Oct. 17th, 2016 08:17 pmTime for some pics i should have posted from last week -
These are from Bromley last Thursday.
( More pics here )
These are from Bromley last Thursday.
( More pics here )
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