This can be baffling when just starting out, but this article is one of the best I've seen giving a quick rundown of how to apply the encoding settings for export to H.264. As it says, some degree of trial and error will eventually help dial in your own work, but these settings are a great place to start!
Cinetic Studios: My workflow for exporting to Web for best quality
Tips, tricks, ticks, and other stuff involving the creative process, technology, social media, and whatever else seems to fit in!
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Showing posts with label Premiere. Show all posts
Monday, November 2, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
Multicamera Editing in Premiere
Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Multi-camera editing workflow: "Premiere Pro lets you create a multi-camera source sequence using clips from multiple camera sources. You can synchronize clips by manually setting In points, Out points, or clip markers. Or you can use audio-based syncing to accurately align clips in a multi-camera sequence."
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Premiere - Time Remapping | No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith | Adobe TV
Time Remapping | No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith | Adobe TV: "Time Remapping, or “Speed Ramps” in some programs, is a visually dynamic editing technique that we can’t seem to get enough of these days. Premiere Pro has a unique and powerful way to control not only the speed changes, but also the transition from one speed to another. See how easy it is to create and edit time changes directly in the timeline and how to copy and paste this same keyframes right into After Effects. As an added bonus we’ve included Timewarp in After Effects which allows you to create new intermediate frames with the ultra smooth Pixel Motion effect."
'via Blog this'
'via Blog this'
Friday, November 14, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Adobe Audio Workflow Basics
Audio for Film Basics: http://filmsound.org/
Basic Audio Design: http://designingsound.org/
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/learn/tutorials/audition.html#fundamentals
Meet 64-bit Adobe Audition | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials:
Import audio files and browsing media | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Import audio files and browsing media"
Manually adjust audio level | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Manually adjust audio level"
Setting up multitrack sessions | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Setting up multitrack sessions"
Premiere Pro to Audition | No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith | Adobe TV: "Premiere Pro to Audition" (CS5.5)
Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Audio Enhancements | Adobe at NAB 2013 | Adobe TV: "Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Audio Enhancements"
Clean up Premiere Pro audio clips with Audition | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Clean up Premiere Pro audio clips with Audition"
Remove noise tutorial | Remove noise from audio files with Adobe Audition CC: "How to remove noise from audio files with Audition "
Conform to broadcast standards with the ITU Loudness Radar panel | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Conform to broadcast standards with the ITU Loudness Radar panel"
Basic Audio Design: http://designingsound.org/
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/learn/tutorials/audition.html#fundamentals
Meet 64-bit Adobe Audition | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials:
Import audio files and browsing media | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Import audio files and browsing media"
Manually adjust audio level | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Manually adjust audio level"
Setting up multitrack sessions | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Setting up multitrack sessions"
Premiere Pro to Audition | No Stupid Questions with Colin Smith | Adobe TV: "Premiere Pro to Audition" (CS5.5)
Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Audio Enhancements | Adobe at NAB 2013 | Adobe TV: "Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Audio Enhancements"
Remove noise tutorial | Remove noise from audio files with Adobe Audition CC: "How to remove noise from audio files with Audition "
Conform to broadcast standards with the ITU Loudness Radar panel | Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials: "Conform to broadcast standards with the ITU Loudness Radar panel"
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Snip.it: Final Subscriber Scorecard
Final Snip.it Subscriber Scorecard. January 17, 2013.
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Farewell, Snip.it (& thanks!)
So, Snip.it was bought by Yahoo and is being shut down. They've put together a "Hall of Fame" of contributors and I was named as one of the top contributors in the "Politics & World" category...
From an email I received from their Content Director:
I want to personally thank you for all your amazing contributions to the product, both in your snips and in your feedback to us. I’ve been continually impressed by all the interesting, unique content you’ve unearthed, as well as your thoughtful commentary on it. The quality of your contributions made the site an absolute joy to browse.
To honor all of your support and contributions, we’ve included you in our Snip.it Hall of Fame, a place to celebrate our top snippers. We’ve included your Twitter handle, so people can continue to follow your insights.
We've also created a Snip.it Hall of Fame, where we’re honoring some of the top contributors to the Snip.it community. We’ve included their Twitter handles so you can continue to stay connected and follow their insights.
I joined Snip.it while it was still in beta and have posted to it more days than not since then. They’ve been cool, it’s a great service, and their staff has been very supportive. From nearly the beginning, they featured my content, which I was pretty proud of, and I seem to have attracted quite a few followers there.
Supposedly, they will be reinventing themselves with Yahoo. I hope so. They were a great service.
We are thrilled at the opportunity to bring Snip.it's vision to a larger scale at Yahoo!. While we can't share the specifics of what we'll be building, we are excited about the opportunity to take social news to new, exciting heights at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! team is passionate about inspiring and entertaining the world’s daily habits, and certainly sharing news and information is something we all do every day. The vision and energy at the company is contagious, and we’re so excited to be part of all that is to come.
So now, I just need to figure out what to do with the links I’ve saved there. There are a couple ways to download them for future use, and I’ll be taking a look at how to get these back out there, when I have a little time…
I just deleted the Snip It button from my browser. That makes me sad.
Unfortunately, in life, with both the good and the bad, “This, too, shall pass…”
Snip.it: All My Base Belong To You - HTML Links
Snip.it: Democracy In Distress - HTML Links
Snip.it: Favorites
Snip.it: Retrovirus Lab - HTML Links
Snip.it: Rubble - HTML Links
Snip.it: Suburban Eschatology Part Two - HTML Links
Yahoo Is In Talks To Buy A Site We Actually Use, Snip.It
Snip.It is a social site that resembles a mash up of Pinterest's collections and Instapaper's ability to save links for consumption later.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-acquires-snipit-2013-1#ixzz2IoskdMnR
Yahoo Poised to Acquire Content Curation Site Snip.it - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD:
Snip.it was founded by Ramy Adeeb, who was formerly a principal at Khosla Ventures, and has funding from Khosla, True Ventures, Charles River Ventures and SV Angel.
Yahoo is paying “mid teens” of millions of dollars for the company, according to a source.
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Kara Swisher yesterday described Yahoo’s new approach to content:While one might argue that Google is already the Google of content, the plan is to make Yahoo more relevant by tailoring it to the individual and make the site a “trusted destination to get them to where they want to go and keep going back.”
Thus, the thinking goes, while Google is the place people come to search for links, Yahoo then becomes the place users come to find content. That means more partnership deals from third-party sources, with an additional social component layer and synced across a number of devices and platforms, especially video.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
One Day On Earth: 12.12.12… So it begins
Pretty much the same post I threw up in late October about NaNoWriMo 2012.
Between working on this project and finishing the NaNoWriMo novel (I did get over 50,000 words in during November to “win” the event), I won’t be posting much on the blogs until 2013.
I wanted to do something quick and easy for One Day since the more complex idea a friend and I had will be impossible, since I am in Sacramento and not Portland, but things happen and after doing some planning and discovering that there is a theme for this years event, my idea for this year will be pretty complicated to edit.
Of course, I won’t be filming until Wednesday 12.12.12, but before then there is some prep work, and after there is going to be a whole bunch of editing. And a whole bunch of writing on the novel. And a whole bunch of major life stuff.
So the blogs will remain on hold for the time being.
Yes, this is being reposted everywhere…
One Day on Earth - Film on 12.12.12 from One Day on Earth on Vimeo.
One Day On Earth - 11-11-11 - Gresham and Portland, Oregon (720p) from A. F. Litt on Vimeo.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Marketing on Pinterest
Well, I am slowing down, not completely stopping! Getting these long infographics to appear properly is a pain in the tush, but click through… It is worth a glance.
Actually, full disclosure, while I may not be worrying about marketing my RubbleSites for the time being, I am going to be helping the ex one with some on-line marketing projects of her own. After watching her wallowing in some semi-legitimate, shark infested pools of online marketing slime for a while, I’ve decided to take a little time to help her get on a proper track.
Pinterest is going to be right out there on the front line of our strategy.
Now, I very much agree that Pinterest is a great way to generate brand attention for small startups, but the real question I have, it is going to be a source of sales?
Even this graphic spends more time talking about potential future customers than actual customers.
I think the answer is: Time will tell.
How Pinterest Can Get Your Brand Attention [INFOGRAPHIC]:
While shaping your brand’s image on Pinterest, remember to take into account the specifics of the site’s userbase. A recent study showed that home, arts and crafts, style/fashion and food are the most popular categories on Pinterest. The food category is the fastest growing segment of Pinterest.
Source: mashable.com via Aaron on Pinterest
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
How I learned to stop worrying and to ignore my statistics: The evolution & extinction of my online marketing strategy…
A little bit of navel gazing this morning… It is early and I am not feeling well, so this might wander and ramble a bit. You’ve been warned.
No More Stats (For now)
First of all, I am, for the time being, not going to be posting my statistics here any more. Those posts were mostly for my own benefit and I find that I am not interested enough (for now) to invest the time it takes to collect that data every month. This has a lot to do with my evolving philosophy about my blog sites and my online activities in general.
Last fall, I was looking at the idea of trying to grow these sites quickly and to try to use them as a way to generate some income. This is no longer a primary goal of mine at this point in time, so those statistics are not as interesting to me right now.
Overall, growth has leveled off a bit the last couple months since growth has become a secondary goal to content creation.
However, that being said, I noticed it has almost been a month since I posted here. That is too long. It is not that I have forgotten about this blog; I haven’t. It is not that I am giving up on this blog; I am not.
Tech Blogging (Or the lack of it)
I suppose one of the reasons why posts have been few and far between here actually goes back to the creation of this blog. I, originally, was going to post about tech and social media topics on my Suburban Eschatology Part Two blog, where my general posts about life live. I did not think that I would be posting often enough on these topics to justify a dedicated blog. A tech blog was not part of my original online strategy at all.
However, a couple months back, I realized that I had so many posts going up about tech and new media that the SE2 blog was looking a lot like a tech blog, which is not what I wanted for that particular piece of online real estate. So I created this blog.
This is not to say that I am regretting that decision. I feel that I do have enough to say and share to justify the existence of this blog but, realistically, it is not ever going to get the attention from me that my other sites receive. I started this blog during a period when I was posting a little more often than usual about tech issues, so I may have misled myself about the frequency of posts that I should be expecting here but, more than that, my philosophy about the content of my blog posts has evolved a bit.
Since creating this blog, my approach to blogging has changed, with my blogs now being my primary forum for content creation and with various social and microblogging venues being the focus of content curation.
I am still interested in tech and social media topics, but I am not writing that much about these topic at the moment. Mostly I am sharing links, and those posts are appearing under the All My Base Belong To You banners on Snip.it (http://snip.it/collections/6911-All-My-Base-Belong-To-You-Tech--New-Media), Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/aflitt/all-my-base-belong-to-you-tech-new-media/), and LinkedIn, but I generally have little commentary to add, so those links are not being posted here.
New hows, whys, and wheres of posting
Posting to one of my blogs requires a greater time commitment than throwing links up onto social media or microblogging sites, and my blogs are not the best venue for posts that are nothing more than shared links.
Unless I have something to add, or unless the link is something that I really want cataloged for later retrieval using the more sophisticated tagging and searching functions of the blog, I see no need to take the time to post them to my blogs. These types of posts usually (usually, but not always) involve links to videos, and with the topics I want to focus on with this blog, there are usually not a lot of related videos out there. The recent video on Rubble of the history of the moon falls into this category of post. It is not my content, but it is very cool and something I will want to be able to easily locate years from now.
For the most part, this approach effects my tech posts the most. This is not because I have nothing to say about the tech and social media links I post, but because I have a lot to say. More than a few words. But each link usually only touches on one small element of the topics that I am thinking about at any one time, so I share them through the microblogs and social networks and then sketch out big posts to work on later for this site.
And I have a few of those posts in the works, drafts in various stages of completion that will see the light of day over the next month or two. But these longer posts, because of the time commitment involved, are few and far between. Even if I write one longer, substantive post a week, that means, if distributed equally between all my blogs, that only one a month is going to land here.
I suppose this is a clunky way of sketching out and describing my evolving social media strategy in general.
Basically, I want my blogs to focus on content creation, not curation. This does not mean that I will not share material created by others on these sites, but that I want the majority of the posts to primarily feature content that I have created myself. At the very least, when I do post links to other people’s material, I want to contribute a few original words to the post. Some observation or commentary.
These are not strict rules, but they are guidelines that I am trying to follow for the most part.
Also, on Retrovirus Lab, this policy does not strictly apply, since it runs contrary to using that blog as a forum for sharing music I like or find interesting for some reason.
Of course, fewer, more personal posts means slower growth on these blogs, but growth is becoming a secondary goal of mine.
Evolving Social Media Priorities
Last fall, I noticed that I was getting a lot of hits for my content across the web and that two of the three blogs I had at the time were receiving a lot of traffic.
At the time, life was a little more complicated and frustrating. I was stuck between the need to get back to work and to make some money and the need to take more time at home to work with my special needs children and my disabled ex-wife. This was a lose / lose situation.
Finding that I was receiving over 20,000 hits a month for my content on the web suggested a new option - generating income via my websites. 20,000 hits a month seemed like a good starting point.
What I discovered over the next couple months was that, yes, those hit counts were a good starting point, but that is all. To really generate any useful income, it would take a lot of work, a lot of time, and a pretty serious revamping of my online footprint.
Sharing cool stuff and selling cool stuff is two very different things. Driving traffic to generate advertising revenue is something else entirely.
It became apparent that generating income would be possible, but there would be a lot of work involved, distracting me so much from my family’s needs that I might as well have been working outside of the home. I ran the flag up the pole for a couple months to see how the wind was blowing, but, all things considered, I found that it was just not a good fit for my life right now. It was not an efficient way to accomplish the current goals in my life. Better serving my needs would be focusing on using this online footprint as a portfolio to assist with the hunt for more traditional sources of income, otherwise known as getting a real job.
Since then, over the winter, the financial situation has improved a little and I am able to relax and to take a little more time working with my children, making sure that they will be prepared for the time when I have to give up my current role as a stay at home dad. This is good, because my family will be facing a lot of challenges over the next two or three months and the demands on my time for meeting everyone’s needs has never been greater.
I’ve already described, in general, how this has effected my approach to posting. But I must admit, I am still working a lot of the details out. My mind is a bit scattered when it comes to all of this stuff and I am still getting settled down into my new goals. Hell, I am still defining my new goals.
I suppose what it really boils down to is that I really want to be using what little free time I have over the next few months to really focus on personal projects of a more creative nature. On photography, video, and music. Maybe even some creative writing. I want to spend a lot less time on social networking and content curation.
I’ve been fighting a nasty cold the last couple weeks, and during this time I haven’t had the energy to use my free time for much other than “content curation,” though, which means sitting around for a couple hours here and there staring at the internet and sharing a few links to justify the time expenditure as being a “productive” use of time.
But this is not really how I want to be spending much time in the future. If my goal right now was to drive traffic, there would be more value to these activities, but since this is not my goal right now, these sessions leave me feeling hollow and empty. I sit and feel like I’ve been “working” for a couple hours, but then I look at what I’ve done and I feel like I have accomplished nothing.
I’d rather be working on music, writing stories, or editing photos or videos.
I think what I really want right now is to stop worrying about maintaining traffic and growth entirely.
I want to go back to the mental zone I was in last fall where my online activities were entirely self-centered. My posts were purely about entertaining myself, saving stuff I liked, and sharing stuff I worked on… Posting what I wanted, where I wanted, at what frequency I wanted without any concern about what others might think. Besides, that approach actually seemed to work very well. Traffic was growing.
This is not to say that these worries matter much to me right now either, but they do lurk more than I’d like in the back of my mind. I really do not worry much about what other people think when I post anything. What I worry about, though, is maintaining traffic. Making sure I am posting interesting enough content frequently enough to maintain interest in my boards on Snip.it and Pinterest, on my Facebook profile and pages, on my Twitter feeds…
Worrying about building traffic on this blog when I am only inspired to write here once a month or so…
This is what I am working on shaking right now, not worrying about these things. It is hard, though, to ramp down those considerations, but I need to.
Because, with my current content model, I am fighting a losing battle anyway.
In order to really drive growth and build readership, I would need to drop all but one or two of my blogs and focus all of my energies towards one topic. If I wanted to make any real money doing this, that would be the only real way to proceed.
But that would not be fun. I like writing about politics, but these sites are about recreation, not vocation, and, for fun, I like to write about a lot of different things. I like photography, but I also like writing about politics, and in order to really sell my photography online, I would not have any time left to blather on about the tragicomic antics of the GOP presidential contenders. I am fascinated by tech and new media issues, but spending more than a few hours a month on these issues starts feeling like work and not play very quickly…
So my goal for the next month or two, until I really gear back up into a job hunt, is to just have fun with these sites. If some task involving these sites starts feeling like a chore, I am probably not going to spend my free time working on it at this point in my life.
Life is full of unpleasant chores right now. My free time should be fun. And if I do not feel like posting out of some odd sense of necessity, I am not going to do it.
The result of this will be better and more interesting posts. More interesting links on the boards. Wittier comments on the social media sites. But less frequent posts all around.
No longer a blogger
I suppose a clear way of explaining my new intentions is this…
For several months, I was trying to be a blogger. To me, this means that I saw my blogs and social media sites as an end in and of themselves. That my end goal was the creation of content for these sites with the primary purpose of promoting these sites.
More clearly and specifically, this means I spent too much time doing things like writing a post on politics because I felt that it had been too long since I posted on Democracy In Distress, not because I was really interested in writing a post on politics at that particular time. I also have been spending too much time actively looking for interesting links for the boards and social networks instead of just throwing stuff up that I come across along the natural course of my day.
I am taking a break from those sorts of activities. For the next, indefinite period of time, I am just going to be a parent, photographer, writer, and musician who happens to also have a blog (or four).
And if people get bored and turn away from these sites, that is fine. I will be having fun and that is fulfilling enough for me right now. I am not going to be worrying about the wolulda, shoulda, couldas of running a successful online/social media marketing strategy with my sites at this point in my life. I don’t have the time or energy right now and, at the end of the day, I just don’t care enough right now.
Just because I can does not mean that I must take the time to do. But I can still write about how to do it from time to time, when it suits me. When it is fun.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
The Three “Ps” of Identity: Presentation, Protection, & Preference (plus a look at Facebook profiles vs. pages)
Allison Cerra writing on Brian Solis’ blog. I stole a decent chunk but the entire post is worth a read.
What’s Love Got to Do with It? The 3P’s of Identity - Brian Solis:
We visited with respondents in 30 homes across the country, observing them for hours in their natural habitats going about their ordinary day. We followed up with a quantitative study to more than 5,000 consumers across the US from teens to mid-lifers to isolate psychometrics, behaviors and values. Our goal was ambitious: How do the devices and networks connecting us each day affect our view of ourselves and those serving us?
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To answer the question, we first had to understand how respondents view themselves in the networked world that keeps them connected. Through the research, we derived the 3P model of identity.
First, there’s presentation, which speaks to the image I attempt to reflect depending on my context. Before the days of devices connecting us in a 24×7 always-on world, life was simpler. Specifically, managing my image was simpler. My presentation at work may have been different from that at home, church, social gatherings or other venues. But, the networked community surrounding us demands a pervasive and constant reflection of who we are. And, I am no longer in control of how I appear, but anyone with an opportune cameraphone or texting fingers is capable of casting my image in the light they see fit.
Next, there’s protection, in which my worldview shapes what I choose to reveal or conceal about myself and loved ones. Protection-centric stories typically steal the headline of the day – whether it be in their scorn of companies that suffer security breaches or some other misstep in infringing customer privacy. Predictably, the public is fascinated with tales that expose how vulnerable we can be in the virtual world that surrounds us. Not all violations are created equal of course; an annoying spam message doesn’t carry the same consequence as a debilitating identity theft crime. In the protection realm, navigating the connected world requires an ability to discern innocuous from more harmful threats – despite not having our more primal, physical sensory capabilities to arm us in doing so.
Finally, preference is a psychological orientation toward targeted products, services and individuals. There is an abundance of choice in a hyper-connected world. Preference seekers long for the targeted offers or opportunities that appear just at precisely the moment they need them. Even better, these individuals crave personalized options that magically materialize even before a conscious need arises. In this space, the constellation of mouse clicks, channel changes and location updates presents a compelling view of who I actually am through my behaviors.
The 3 Ps exist in each of us simultaneously. While some of us may more psychometrically align with one P in particular, we make conscious and unconscious tradeoffs between all three multiple times each day. Should I post that picture about myself on my social networking page? It depends on how strongly I believe it aligns with a particular presentation important for the unique audience. Should I reveal my location to others through my social networking updates? It depends on how protective I am of leaking such information compared to how strongly I prefer a targeted interaction or service benefitting from the same. Should I opt-in to receive targeted advertisements? It depends on how certain I am that such personalized information will be used to help me, not harm me.
Another in a series of recent posts on Solis’ blog where he is presenting some very interesting metrics while not necessarily telling us how to apply them. However, the application is fairly obvious with most of them.
This one, obviously, is a way to look at both how we present ourselves and how we understand our customers. In my particular case, my customers are the readers of my blogs and my followers on social media. What is suggested to me, though, is that how we present ourselves via these Three Ps will determine which customers engage with our content. This is not a chicken and egg approach; here, A does come before B.
This is particularly interesting to me today. Today I am realigning how I present content on my Facebook profile and pages. Before, I used my personal profile as a portal to the content I created, and then threw a bunch of links and images into the mix as well. In many ways, this watered down my own content and much of it got lost in the torrent of information.
But this was not the only drawback. My two primary blogs are Rubble, which is primarily used to present my nature photography, and Democracy In Distress, which is primarily used to argue my political views. Because of this, most of the content on my Facebook profile was links to artistic articles, photos, and videos, and links to political content centered around a center-left viewpoint.
I think the problem is pretty clear.
There are not a lot of analytics available for personal profiles on Facebook. I am pretty sure that I lost few “friends” after posting a picture of Mt.Hood, but I know I lost “friends” after posting too many anti-Republican articles in a row, some disagreeing with my politics, some because they just did not want any politics in their feed at all. This was not the content they were interested in and my one or two photos a day were no match for the much more ubiquitous political postings when making a decision on whether or not to friend or un-friend me.
So I have a presentation issue affecting my online identity. In my case, somehow I ended up gaining a pretty solid following around the politics, most of my followers, “friends,” who were not people I actually knew in the real world, were there for the politics, not for the photography. My efforts in the artistic realm were being buried and lost in the flood of political material I was posting to keep the majority of my profile’s followers interested.
Presentation is not my only problem. Because I have been using my personal profile as more of a page than a profile, I also have a protection issue.
With a page, the goal is to get as many followers as possible. To get as many eyes on my content as possible. I do not need to or even want to know all of them personally. And with pages, this is fine. However, when following this practice with my personal profile, this creates some problems.
Between friends on Facebook, some layers of protection are eliminated since we are supposed to be responsible for those layers of protection ourselves, not the site itself. We are supposed to be vetting our friends, and once they get through our gate, they then have increased access to the profiles on our friends list. Of course, every user can tweak their setting controlling the amount of access these friends of friends have to their own profiles, but the default settings are pretty open.
These friends of friends also can send messages to the people on our lists. They can whether or not they are our friends, but with access to our lists they can also send messages such as, “Hey, since we both know that Litt guy, why don’t you check out my totally worthless spam and my potentially hazardous link? You know Litt wouldn’t lead you astray, right?”
No, I wouldn’t. Intentionally. Especially if I am using my profile correctly. However, using it as a page, while trying to vet most of my followers to some degree, some bad seeds do slip through since I am inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to new contacts.
This happened to me recently, and it was the final factor leading up to the changes I am implementing today.
After a couple weeks of warning, I am moving the majority of the political content to a page for the Democracy In Distress blog. This is certain. I am, for now, also moving the photography to my new A. F. Litt page (as opposed to my personal profile). This way, those who do not care for the political content can enjoy the photography, and those who enjoy the politics can be spared the landscapes pictures, etc. if they wish.
It streamlines and clarifies my presentation, targets my specific followers better, and it creates a more secure environment for my existing friends while still allowing me to purse new, unvented followers.
Unfortunately, it is not a win-win scenario. In Game Theory, it is a non-zero sum scenario.
Overall, I may not lose any followers or friends, but I will, hopefully only for the short term, be sacrificing click throughs to my blogs and other online accounts. My Facebook profile is my second largest traffic source behind Google Search, with Snip.it and Pinterest coming in third.
By not posting these links on my profile, I could be reducing my traffic by quite a bit (not to mention killing my Klout score!), but I do not want to flood my friends’ feeds with multiple posts of identical links. Already, my most dedicated followers have “liked” the pages they are interested in, and hopefully, overtime, the new pages will build the following my profile has.
Because of this, these changes were not the easiest choices to make. There were some difficult decisions involved. But it is better to do this when I am approaching 600 followers instead of approaching 5000 followers.
If I could go back and do this all over again, I would have created these pages as soon as I revived the Rubble and Democracy In Distress sites last year. In the future, putting together a social media marketing campaign, there would be no question of this.
However, there was not a lot of planning going on last year as my blogs slowly came back to life. I was posting here and there for the fun of it and the idea that I would start getting the traffic on these blogs that I am never crossed my mind. By the time I realized that things were taking off I was just rolling with it. Only over the last few months have I sat down and tried to bring some order to the chaos.
The fact that I would need to migrate my content to pages was obvious then. The only question was when. Now, or wait until my friends list reached its upper limit? The protection factor was the deciding factor in making this change now. Also, I’ve seen too many people trapped with having to maintain identical content on two different pages/profiles – profile content for their first 5000 followers and page content for everyone who came along later.
Another trap I’ve noticed is accounts with 5000 friends on the profile and nine followers of the page.
By making this change now I hope to avoid both of those problems in the future.
Really, what I am doing on Facebook is no different that what I did with my blogs last year, I sorted the content by subject matter, knowing that some people would be interesting in certain topics more than others. While with the RubbleSites, this has led to five different blogs (Arts & Sciences, Music, Politics, Tech & New Media, and Family Life & Parenting), I am breaking these five down into three pages on Facebook: Music (Retrovirus Lab), Politics, and everything else, with the everything else being split between my personal Page and Profile depending on the content’s presentation and protection factors.
I will depart with humor. This was spotted by Kelly Rossi on Facebook earlier.
I like the last one. I still haven’t figured out why G+ is worth my time, other than maintaining some place holders just in case it takes off in the future.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Old Post Migration (Part One)
I created this blog in December because most of the recent posts at the time on Suburban Eschatology Part Two were tech posts. I realized that the old blog was in danger of turning into a tech blog. However, there were so many of these posts that I decided a tech blog was not a bad idea.
So I’ve spent some time today migrating the first batch (about half) of those posts over here from SE2. I tagged them, slapped on a crappy little graphic, and plopped them down here. Later, I may go through and post them to the actual dates they were created on, but since they are all still fairly current, I probably will just let them stay where they are…
That is all. Just a quick bookkeeping note.
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Facebook 101 [COMIC]
Note: Cross posted from Suburban Eschatology Part Two.
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There are some people who think Facebook has become too complicated. There are other people who agree with those people.
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Tips for landing a cherry tech position
Note: Cross posted from Suburban Eschatology Part Two.
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Created by: Masters Degree
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Found this on Mashable... I'd prefer to work in high tech manufacturing, my preferred area. But, I'll write for anyone! This chart is geared more towards the hard core programmers, not the English majors who happened to grow up and start their careers in Seattle, like me, and who, inevitably because of the time and place, landed in that industry off and on over the years. And it looks like moving north, south, or east from Oregon would be a good idea for landing one of these types of jobs.
Hot Tips For Landing Jobs at Google, Apple and Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]:Google, Apple and Facebook are the tech trifecta, so we found facts that could help you land a job at one of these companies. No doubt, there will be stiff competition: Nearly one in four young professionals wants to work at Google, for instance, but there’s more room in the Googleplex for software developers. Facebook gets 250,000 applications a year and sifts through them to find the cream of the crop, preferring those who build things, whether they’re apps or organizations. And Apple wants, well, Apple fanboys to help create the next generation of gadgetry, but you ought to have a reference from an existing Appler.
Created by: Masters Degree
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Top 10 Features Users Want From Google+ Brand Pages:
Note: Cross posted from Suburban Eschatology Part Two.
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Top 10 Features Users Want From Google+ Brand Pages:
It’s still too early to tell what will come from the recently launched Google+ brand pages.
We asked our followers what they hope to see added in the future, and after reading hundreds of comments, the key things appear to be multiple administrators, app integration and more customization.
'via Blog this'
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Pre-Photoshop Soviet Historical Correction Machines
Note: Cross posted from Rubble.
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For some reason, these Soviet machines made me think of this…
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Obsolete: Photoshop Before Photoshop | Motherboard:Yes. I am sure the Soviets used this technology purely for improving the contrast on old photos!
In this Sesame Street-reminiscent vintage Russian clip circa 1987, we learn how images were edited before the days of Photoshop.
For some reason, these Soviet machines made me think of this…
Censorship of images in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
After Joseph Stalin rose to power in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became Soviet leader, he initiated a number of purges that eliminated perceived enemies. At first, a purge meant expulsion from the Communist Party, but after the Great Purge in the 1930s members were arrested, imprisoned, sent to gulags or to internal exile in Siberia, or executed. The Soviet government attempted to erase some purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images, destroying film, and in the most extreme cases, killing off entire families.
File:The Commissar Vanishes 2.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Stalin, (Nikolai Yezhov, censored) and Molotow at the shore of the Moskwa-Wolga-Channel. After Yezhow was executed he vanished between 1940-1990 from this pic too.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
~36,489 Views Last Month: December 2011 Statistics Wrap-Up
Up nearly 12,000 hits over November, even though I took several weeks off from posting much in the way of new content. Up and to the right. I’ll take it.
Rubble:
November: 3,377
December: 3,822
Change: +445
All Time: 15,305*
Democracy In Distress:
November: 6,129
December: 5,945
Change: -184
All Time: 21,469*
Retrovirus Lab:
November: 1,312
December: 1363
Change: +51
All Time: 4,290**
Suburban Eschatology Part Two:
November: 873
December: 255
Change: -618
All Time: 1,730**
All My Base Belong To You:
November: N/A
December: 120
Change: +120
All Time: 120
Panoramio.com:
November: 5,998
December: 11,383
Change: +5,385
All Time: 30,617***
Photobucket.com:
October: 855
December: 7,546
Change: +6691
All Time: 25,726****
Picasa Web Albums:
November: 471
December: 741
Change: +270
All Time: 5021*****
YouTube:
November – Channel Views: 110
November – Upload Views: 953
December: 314
All Time: 1,829
* Blogger has been keeping stats since May 2009, these blogs have been around much longer. However, since they were essentially dormant until March 2011, they do reflect the activity on these blogs during their current, active incarnation.
** These blogs were created in August 2011.
*** Since August 2011, when I first started posting on this site.
**** I hate Photobucket and I rarely use it. I believe 11,007 is the total since May, not March, since I had 10,909 hits on June 15. I've arrived at this static by adding the monthly counts since June to 10,909, which is probably more accurate, but still leaves 15 days worth of hits unaccounted for.
***** I began recording statistics on Picasa in March, 2011. I was posting to the site earlier, but not by much, so this should be a fairly accurate statistic.
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