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A quiz, I'm bored. And FOAF.
Feb. 23rd, 2004 03:23 pmHuh, who'd've thunk it?
I found this quiz while pootling about looking at the FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) site, which looks interesting. It's a way of creating simple machine-readable pages, ie, a page with simple fields (using RDF and XML) that lets the computer read and piece together information from the web. You fill in the FOAF sheet and upload it to your site. I'm not sure what its ultimate purpose is - a way of creating social networks, or to make searches simpler? Another way of finding information about people? I made myself a foaf sheet for one of my other sites (the ones I show to family and friends, of course), just for the curiosity value. There are only certain fields at the moment, such as name, phone number, place of work and names of friends and their email addresses. As a way of tracking groups and friends it's really interesting, but at the same time I'm slightly dubious about shoving my friends's emails and names on the web without asking first.
That reminds me, I was thinking that the tracking meme that recently went round really needs another part; where you make bar charts and graphs showing who the lj connectors are, or those people who seem to act almost as an lj introductory service. As far as I can tell, these sorts of people often rec a lot, have fairly diverse or large friends lists and often have a vibrant online personality. I can think of a few on my friends list who I'd call connectors. There are certain people who have either large or multi-fandom, eclectic friends lists and I know that I like to read their friends list just to see what's going on in other places/fandoms/people's heads. Friendsfriends in other words, except for the bit about having the paid account.
Is anyone a member of Orkut, just out of interest? It's another social networking site, but you have to be invited to join.
I found this quiz while pootling about looking at the FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) site, which looks interesting. It's a way of creating simple machine-readable pages, ie, a page with simple fields (using RDF and XML) that lets the computer read and piece together information from the web. You fill in the FOAF sheet and upload it to your site. I'm not sure what its ultimate purpose is - a way of creating social networks, or to make searches simpler? Another way of finding information about people? I made myself a foaf sheet for one of my other sites (the ones I show to family and friends, of course), just for the curiosity value. There are only certain fields at the moment, such as name, phone number, place of work and names of friends and their email addresses. As a way of tracking groups and friends it's really interesting, but at the same time I'm slightly dubious about shoving my friends's emails and names on the web without asking first.
That reminds me, I was thinking that the tracking meme that recently went round really needs another part; where you make bar charts and graphs showing who the lj connectors are, or those people who seem to act almost as an lj introductory service. As far as I can tell, these sorts of people often rec a lot, have fairly diverse or large friends lists and often have a vibrant online personality. I can think of a few on my friends list who I'd call connectors. There are certain people who have either large or multi-fandom, eclectic friends lists and I know that I like to read their friends list just to see what's going on in other places/fandoms/people's heads. Friendsfriends in other words, except for the bit about having the paid account.
Is anyone a member of Orkut, just out of interest? It's another social networking site, but you have to be invited to join.
Questions, questions
Dec. 15th, 2003 12:04 pmWhat's a mun? I saw it on the info for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
theatrical_muse. I sort of twigged what a pup was. But why mun? Speaking of odd fannish terminology, I came across an article about smarm. Smarm as in a fannish term for the stories that make you go a bit squooshy. Yeah, I'm being clear aren't I? Soppy but in a good way, I suppose would be another word. The part of a story that gives you that nice sensation in your stomach. I've no idea if people still use the word smarm much in its fannish meaning- I certainly never see it used but then I'm only really in two fandoms. Apparently it came to have its fannish meaning through a misunderstanding; Person X described a particular scene in a story as'smarmy'. The person reading the comment, who didn't know the word, thought, as she'd liked that scene very much, that smarmy meant, 'something in a story that makes you squee', to use another fannish term. And she spread the term around amongst other people who'd also never heard of the word 'smarm' before. Which is funny because smarm for me, in its non-fannish useage, means pretty much the opposite. It has negative connotations, and I could never dream of using it to mean anything else. Is smarm a popular fannish word?
In other news, the Yuletide fic is up, running and smarming towards the finishing line. I really should get back toit work.
And, I've still got some Christmas cards left if anyone else would like one. I suppose it might arrive a bit later now though. Email me here: louise @ edfrank .fsnet.co.uk
theatrical_muse. I sort of twigged what a pup was. But why mun? Speaking of odd fannish terminology, I came across an article about smarm. Smarm as in a fannish term for the stories that make you go a bit squooshy. Yeah, I'm being clear aren't I? Soppy but in a good way, I suppose would be another word. The part of a story that gives you that nice sensation in your stomach. I've no idea if people still use the word smarm much in its fannish meaning- I certainly never see it used but then I'm only really in two fandoms. Apparently it came to have its fannish meaning through a misunderstanding; Person X described a particular scene in a story as'smarmy'. The person reading the comment, who didn't know the word, thought, as she'd liked that scene very much, that smarmy meant, 'something in a story that makes you squee', to use another fannish term. And she spread the term around amongst other people who'd also never heard of the word 'smarm' before. Which is funny because smarm for me, in its non-fannish useage, means pretty much the opposite. It has negative connotations, and I could never dream of using it to mean anything else. Is smarm a popular fannish word?In other news, the Yuletide fic is up, running and smarming towards the finishing line. I really should get back to
And, I've still got some Christmas cards left if anyone else would like one. I suppose it might arrive a bit later now though. Email me here: louise @ edfrank .fsnet.co.uk
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Jun. 26th, 2003 11:48 amI've watched 'Once More with Feeling' twice over the past few days. One of my favourite bits is at the beginning, when Buffy sings (something very like) '...we'll do or die, and I've died twice.' Giles looks at her and gives the sweetest smile, and I turn into a little puddle of goo.
I'm deep into my second reading of OotP, and am noticing so much more than I did during the first frenzied read-through.
( the obligatory OotP cut )
I'm deep into my second reading of OotP, and am noticing so much more than I did during the first frenzied read-through.
( the obligatory OotP cut )
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Jun. 18th, 2003 10:31 amI always meant to do this meme, but never got round to it, so was pleased to see it surface again on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carmarthen's journal.
( My Fannish Love Affairs )
carmarthen's journal. ( My Fannish Love Affairs )
