Year: 2006

Back to Gmail-USSR

(please, forgive my untalanted Beatles reference)

My email requirements have changed again. This time the changes are so significant that I am re-considering GMail. It looks promising.

Why so? Well, the nature of my email discussions has changed so that GMail threads conversations handle my load best of all. Also GMail is nicely integrated with Google Calendar, which I am using extensively lately. And another feature that I immediately grew into is multiple account management.

If you feel like dropping me a line, [email protected] is my GMail address. Also, if you need any invites, let me know – because I have a few.

Your pictures are out there

Girl with a one-track mind wrote an insightful post about pictures taken during the “romantic moment”.

Women across the world have one thing in common … what I am talking about is this: if a woman has had erotic photographs taken of her by a sexual partner, these will, at some point appear on the internet – usually without her knowledge.

She says that it happens more often than you can imagine.

Time and time again, I have received pictures of men having sex with their ex-girlfriends, in some shape or form; my hard drive is filled with images of anonymous women I will never meet; women whose readily identifiable images are freely available to all on the internet.

I bet none of these women gave their consent for their pictures to be used in this way.

She explores some of the reasons of why this happens.

Being so disposable, having their image being a mechanism for a man to exploit, well, I guess in this day and age – where women’s bodies are sexualised commodities for capitalism – it’s no surprise that their consent isn’t asked; why should men think of getting permission when it’s so acceptable to profit off these images in mainstream society? What would make a man think differently, when he is surrounded by images of women in various states of undress, selling everything from magazines to cars?

And she also provides some answers.

So what’s the answer? I’m afraid there’s only one: if you don’t want to run the risk of your erotic pictures being shared on the internet, then you can’t EVER let any be taken. Seriously.

Overall, that’s one nicely written post. Go read it.

Daily blog posts: yes or no?

I came across this blog post that argues that posting to your blog daily is a thing of the past. Eric Kintz, the author of the post, gives ten good reasons for why he thinks so.

I somewhat agree wit Eric, but I find his post a bit narrow. One of the important things that he leaves out is author’s discipline. Daily posts help authors, especially beginners, to “get into it”.

I would’ve never built my curent blogging skills without daily posts. And even now, when I don’t have any troubles writing a couple of one page long posts a day, I feel that daily blogging helps me in maintaining and improving my skills (language, typing speed, focusing ability, research methods, etc).

By the way, if you feel like you need to do daily blogging, but realize that you have writer’s block at this very moment, here’s a helpful post for you to keep handy.

(both links were found via Weblog Tools Collection)