Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Speaking of Web 2.0, I’ve had 3+ not necessarily unwelcome, but unprepared for run-ins this week. One was on the street, “IRL” as we say on the internets. The other 2+ were online. People who live nowhere near me popped up in a way I wasn’t expecting, and I wasn’t ready for it. This is one of the both fortunate and unfortunate aspects of life in the small town that is the internet. I can run into exes I don’t want to see, or long lost friends I’ve wondered about for years. I think that on the whole, I like it, but it makes social negotiations awful tricky. I have to set my filters, friend levels, contact lists, etc, so that I’m not running into people I don’t want to run into when I’m least prepared. And sometimes I don’t like the ways I have to set them, because I’m filtering out more than I want to…

As always, the cardinal rule is “Never accept an invitation to go crazy”. If a repeated run-in is causing me undo stress, gotta do what I gotta do. As my friend Jason has always said, “It’s just the internets”.

Via Ro

Just bringing the rest of you up to speed! We’ve been busy!

In addition to just being awesome, they have nice people at the top.

(This is in regard to that “whole thing” I mentioned at the end of the last post.)

I can’t spend too long on this because I have a study schedule to stick to, but if you’ve been living under a rock… or if you just don’t spend your life on Flickr (same diff, no?!), then there was a huge upset in the photographic world yesterday. JPG Magazine, which is a print magazine comprised of themed submissions from “regular” photographers, was created by Heather Champ and Derek Powazek. Used to be (2 days ago) that when you went to JPG Magazine’s “About” page, you got this. That link tells of how Heather and Derek (a married couple) founded the magazine. Well now the site contains no mention of either of them and no longer contains the contents of the first 6 issues on the site. Flickr people are pissed, and we’re all deleting our JPG Magazine accounts.

Like I said, I don’t have time to write it all out, but here are some more detailed descriptions of what has happened:

• JPG Delete
• Digital Photography Goes To Hell For A Day
• Metafilter Discussion

And then there’s this whole thing.

Good grief!

Do you ever get sick of yourself? I’ve been feeling really sick of myself lately. Like I want to make the big humongous Abby personality get really little and fit on to one piece of paper instead of the entire damn internet. As a side effect of this overall feeling, as well as some security concerns, I’ve taken to making huge sections of my blog private. Why? I don’t know. There’s too much of me everywhere, I guess. I know I’ll never achieve wallflower status in any way, but sometimes, I like the idea of trying.