Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

TED2013. Long Beach, CA. February 25 – March 1, 2013. Photo: James Duncan Davidson, MODIFIED: VisibleProcrastinations

Art, music, connection, trust

http://www.amandapalmer.net/news/ted/

Bye Instagram, don’t call back now

This week Instagram changed its terms of use so that it will be able to display your “username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take” in connection with advertising without you being notified or reimbursed.

Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.

Although later clarified by Instagram, The Terms of Use are still pretty ugly. This reenforces the Facebook approach that the users are the product that they then onsell.

We've heard you that the updates to our Privacy Policy & Terms of Service are raising a lot of questions. We'll have more to share very soon

—
Instagram (@instagram) December 18, 2012

Rights
…
2. Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), or under any other applicable age of majority, you represent that at least one of your parents or legal guardians has also agreed to this provision (and the use of your name, likeness, username, and/or photos (along with any associated metadata)) on your behalf.
– Terms of Use

@instagram too little, too slow, goodbye!

The only way to opt out of the new Instagram terms is to not use the service. If you log into Instagram in any way (Web site, app’s or other services) you agree to have your content used in ads.

Links:
[1] Anger at Changes on Instagram (2012-Dec-18) [NYT : Bits]
[2] How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account (2012-Dec-17) [Wired]
[3] Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photos (2012-Dec-18) [The Guardian]
[4] Instagram makes you the product (2012-Dec-18) [The Guardian]
[5] You’ve been framed: putting you in the picture with the Instagram deal (2012-Dec-19) [The Conversation]

Looking to do a Wordle of a Twitter feed?

Twitter does not make it easy to access the RSS feed for an account, in fact you need to dig around to find a method to access the RSS stream. The method I am using here is via the Twitter API and uses the screen name (screen_name=XXXXXX);

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=XXXXXX

To make a Wordle for @WeMelbourne we can use; http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=WeMelbourne. This RSS feed is then input into http://www.wordle.net/create to give the Wordle.

This leads to good things.

#QantasLuxury

* Qantas has hired four social media managers in the wake of the grounding crisis [Herald Sun]

* Qantas in new social media fail with #QantasLuxury hashtag backlash [mUmBRELLA]

* Qantas competition hashtag hijacked [The Australian]

* Qantas makes hash of tweet campaign [SMH]

* PR experts said the campaign was perhaps Australia’s greatest public relations failure and a classic example of the dangers of unpredictable social media.
– Epic fail for Qantas Twitter competition [Reuters]

Twitter Spam … from me :(

Checking my tweet stream on the way into work this morning, and there as bold as day is a tweet from me – that I didn’t send! Now this is a pretty bad discovery, it would appear that my Twitter account has been used to send spam;

How embarrassing, it would appear that I have been hacked. Off to Twitter I go and change my password.

After some further investigation, having a look through my authorised apps and there is one from 21 hours ago that I do not remember authorising. So my spam is most likely via a bad twitter app. No so much hacked as hijacked.

If affected by a bad app, revoke it at https://twitter.com/settings/applications AND change your password.

As part of the cleanup I also deleted the tweets from both Twitter and FriendFeed to make sure they are not available for someone to accidentally follow the links.

I will need to schedule regular checks of the authorised apps.

LINKS:
[1] Is your follower a spammer…or a hijacked account? (2011-Jul-21) [tweetsmarter]
[2] Compromised Twitter accounts spam out money-making adverts (2011-Aug-01) [Naked Security]
[3] Twitter Direct Message Spam Attack (2011-Jan-18) [Nick Moeck]
[4] How bad Twitter links & apps can trick you (2011-Jun-30) [tweetsmarter]

Retweet

[1] Retweet rollout continues (2009-Nov-10) [Twitter]
[2] Hate It Or Love It, Twitter’s New Retweet Style Is Rolling Out (2009-Nov-10) [TechCrunch]

Media140 today

About Media140 Sydney 2009:
Future of Journalism in the Social Media Age. An international collaboration asks “What is the future of journalism in the Social Media Age?”. Staged at ABC’s Eugene Goossens’ Hall, Sydney on 5th – 6th of November, bringing together Australia’s leading journalists, broadcasters, social media advocates and media academics. To educate and promote debate within the media industry about Twitter and realtime social media platforms and practices. — Ustream

The Media140 series of conferences is stopping in Sydney Nov. 4-5 to discuss “The Future of Journalism in the Social Media Age.”

Media140 Links:

• Sydney Media140 » sessions
• Media140 Sydney 2009 on USTREAM
• Media140 – Live Broadcast 5th & 6th November Sydney
• #media140 (TweetGrid)
• #media140 (CrowdEye)

Links to Talk notes and Opinions:

• Laurel Papworth’s Media 140 Speech Margaret Simons [Crikey]
• Media140 Sydney Case Study – Riyaad Minty [SlideShare]
• John Bergin’s Media 140 Speech Margaret Simons [Crikey]
• MEDIA#140: EVERYBODY PANIC ABOUT TWEETING (BIRDS). [HungryBeast]
• Conceptual Confusion and Journalistic Process – My Highlights and Lowlights of Media 140 Margaret Simons [Crikey]
• Media140: What do journos do better, exactly? [Stilgherrian]
• Rebooting the News System in the Age of Social Media Jay Rosen [Quote and Comment]
• Do Journos do it better? Some thoughts from Sydney’s pre-eminent Hacks & Hackettes Dominique Jackson [Media140]
• Get with the times, Jay Rosen tells journos [ABC News]
• How social media is changing political reporting [SlowTV]
• Stilgherrian’s media140 Bookmarks [delicious]
• Mark Scott’s speech to #media140 (PDF)
• The future of journalism in 140 characters Neerav Bhatt (2009-Nov-11) [ABC Unleashed]
• My #media140 presentation Wolfcat [Insert Clever Title Here]

Why mixing Twitter + DJs is probably not a good thing

Dave Hughes and Kyle Sandilands battle it out live on Twitter: @DHughesy vs @kyleandjackieo
Great viral marketing and poor use of the technology? Only the ratings will tell.

Twanalysis for visibleprocrast

Twanalysis for visibleprocrast

Twanalyst analyses your Twitter profile and your last 100 tweets (if you’ve written that many yet) – then makes some sweeping judgements about your personality based on how often you tweet, how many friends and followers you have, the content of your tweets and so on. There are more than 30,000 different possible results the site can give. If you’re offended by what it says – don’t be: it’s just a bit of fun, dude! On a more serious note, the site also analyses the above to make some practical suggestions as to how you can improve your tweeting or increase your follower count. Thanks for trying it out, and enjoy!

ANALYSIS:

• READABILITY: The readability figure is based on the Automated Readability Index – this looks at the length of sentences and individual words you use to assess the complexity of the writing. A score between about 6 and 12 represents normal prose: below is simplistic and above is technical or obscure. 14 – ok I’m technical, so sue me
• TYPE: BOFFIN (7%) – someone whose language is generally advanced or technical

1 minute twitter silence at 4pm on Friday

At 4:00PM Eastern Australia Time observe a minute of Twitter silence for fire victims #bushfires

@KevinRuddPM: 1 minute twitter silence at 4pm on Friday in memory of those who lost their lives in Vic & QLD #bushfires