The battle lines (or shall I say blog lines) are drawn.
Our forces are now connected to a Bloglines account and are receiving information from two Civil War related correspondents. For some long I've been hesitant to seek information from the blogs because I couldn't keep track of all of them. With the aggregator it's a snap! One mouseclick and I can receive the latest intelligence (sometimes more and sometimes less). In addition, if I'm surfing the web and find a blog or newsfeed I want to follow I can add it to my Bloglines account with another click.
We shall make great use of this technology in our effort to defeat our greatest enemy - ignorance.
A. H. Talkov
Brigadier-General Commanding
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
General Orders No. 2
Richmond, Va., October 20, 2008
We have conducted our reconnaissance into the territory controlled by the Flickrs and, in the immortal words of Captain James T. Kirk, "Too... much... information... makes... my... brain... hurt."
I did a search for 'Civil War' and came up with a collection of images related to the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and whatever is happening in Iraq that they refuse to call a Civil War. I'm not sure but it seems as though Flickr might not run on a Google-type search engine that brings up the most popularly visited sites. As a result, what you get is a bevy of images that may or may not really relate to your search. That said, I suppose Flickr is mainly a resource to share images as opposed to a search engine to locate images. As far as UGC (user generated content) is concerned, my problem is that most users don't have anything particularly interesting to say... and some are downright vile. With all the information out there it seems like it would be difficult for a VHS Flickr page to be found among the vast sea of information and, if found, to get a critical mass of loyal users to stay committed. Given the fact that any images (of events for instance) that the VHS wants to promote could be promoted on our website makes Flickr probably less useful for our applications. I'll have to think on this for a bit though...
I did enjoy using the Flikr spelling tool and loved my Flikr chia-pet...
A.H. Talkov
Brigadier-General, Commanding
We have conducted our reconnaissance into the territory controlled by the Flickrs and, in the immortal words of Captain James T. Kirk, "Too... much... information... makes... my... brain... hurt."
I did a search for 'Civil War' and came up with a collection of images related to the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and whatever is happening in Iraq that they refuse to call a Civil War. I'm not sure but it seems as though Flickr might not run on a Google-type search engine that brings up the most popularly visited sites. As a result, what you get is a bevy of images that may or may not really relate to your search. That said, I suppose Flickr is mainly a resource to share images as opposed to a search engine to locate images. As far as UGC (user generated content) is concerned, my problem is that most users don't have anything particularly interesting to say... and some are downright vile. With all the information out there it seems like it would be difficult for a VHS Flickr page to be found among the vast sea of information and, if found, to get a critical mass of loyal users to stay committed. Given the fact that any images (of events for instance) that the VHS wants to promote could be promoted on our website makes Flickr probably less useful for our applications. I'll have to think on this for a bit though...
I did enjoy using the Flikr spelling tool and loved my Flikr chia-pet...
A.H. Talkov
Brigadier-General, Commanding
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
General Orders No. 1
Richmond, Va., October 7, 2008.
Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the South (of the James) where we have always seen the backs of our enemies; from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him where he is found; whose policy has been the attack and not defense... Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
A. H. Talkov,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the South (of the James) where we have always seen the backs of our enemies; from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him where he is found; whose policy has been the attack and not defense... Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
A. H. Talkov,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
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