Google+ Oddities Part 2

Oddities Part 2

I just wanted to add one more thing to my earlier post about the strange ways of Google+. One of the most annoying things about G+ has got to be the way they require you to post. I understand their theory and principal of sharing certain things with certain circles and communities. However what I don't agree with is that if I want to share with multiple communities I can't and on top of that when I go through the process of sharing with multiple communities it shows up every time in my feed. For example if I share a photo with 10 different groups the same photo will show up 10 times in a row in my feed. This is just not a problem for me that is annoying on my own feed, but also annoys me when I look at someone else's profile and have to scroll and scroll just to get to their next post, because G+ finds it necessary to show me that they shared the same pic with 10 different communities. 

So my advice for G+ is.... STOP IT!! 

I really don't have much time to get into the next subject on my hit list, which would be about the way G+ handles pictures, I'll save that for part 3.

A nice little article about SEO

Hello everyone, today I just want to share this article I came across on Zite, here that gives some tips about what photographers should do to increase their visibility on the web. To be a little more specific to help your site show up higher in the search results on Google. One of the tips involves linking, which I have done here, although they will not be linking to my blog( because I have the exact problem they talk about, and that is not being known, I'm trying to work on that) but that's okay hopefully someone will read this blog, and in turn link back to my blog ( hint hint) anyways give it a read, I really think it has some useful pointers and is not too awful long of a read.

No Bueno

No Bueno

Well I put out some flyers, around town haven't received one nibble yet. I am going to design a new one and try again, but time is running out on my idea of freelancing instead of getting a part time job. School starts on May 19th so after that it will be too difficult to keep up my efforts. I paid for an on Facebook for my side company Photo Saver (check it out and like my page please) which got me a lot of paid views but not one single person contacted me about it. I think that in the case of that page I need to educate people a little more on the services I provide. So I will continue to try, because I will never give up, however there is some good news, the weather here is finally starting to improve, which has given my motivation a boost.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #27 - Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels

This photo was taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a few years ago using My Sony DSC-HX1.

There is not a whole lot that I can say about this picture except that life sized Hot Wheels are pretty awesome! 

B&W Photo Challenge Day#25 - Tornado Damage 1

Tornado Damage

Back on November 17, 2013 an F2 tornado ripped through my city here is a picture of one of the buildings that got damaged. I'll post a link here for a little more info on the damage if you're interested.

Pretty crazy stuff, but one of the most amazing things is that nobody died, so that is always a good thing. I shot this photo a few days ago with my D5100. My next photo will be of another business that was damaged and now they are rebuilding.

 

 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #22 - Coming Home From Chicago 2008

Coming Home

This is the joy of living in the Mid-West, after driving really slow for over an hour and almost crashing, from listening to Eli Manning's ESCAPE in the Superbowl. I finally got a chance to stop and clean off my window and wipers. My wife took this photo, and I think the blur is a nice touch, reminds me of a book cover. This is another photo taken with the HP PhotoSmart Mz-60 (I never planned on having so many photos from this camera, but that's just how it has worked out) 

Tumblr?

Tumblr?

Tumblr, stylized in its logo as tumblr., is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.^[4][5] Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.

As of February 7, 2014, Tumblr hosts over 170.2 million blogs.^[2] The company's headquarters is in New York City.

I got this definition from Wikipedia  

What the hell is microblogging?

Maybe I'm out of the loop?

Maybe I'm not that cool?

So I am not on Tumblr, but I have been looking at a lot of posts on there thanks to the app Zite. Don't get me wrong I like it and think that there are a lot of cool things on there and maybe it's just the posts I've been seeing but it seems like it should not be considered a blog site. I mean it might as well be Pinterest, because all I see is a bunch of pictures that are by other people and they re-blog them from other users, really no original content, and definitely no writing. When you "like" something they call it notes which is kind of funny to me. And let me just say there are a lot of strange people on there that like a lot of strange things; don't get me wrong I like some of of it because I'm a little strange too, but we all are. I would probably join if I thought I had time, it just gets too overwhelming to try to keep up multiple Blogs and sites. I have a hard enough time keeping up with this, backing up pictures between Google drive, Sky Drive (One Drive), Pinterest, Facebook, Deviant Art, Flickr, as well as some others. That is about all I have to say about this for now, although I won't rule out that I won't join someday and if I do I'll let you know.    

Take on more? That is the question?

Maybe

Maybe not