I confess having some difficulty with blogs. I wasn't going to say it, but since you broached it. I don't really want to do all the reading that a blog presumes I do, and I don't like clicking on the inevitable thumbnail in the blog to get to the larger version of an image. I find most blogs present even the thumbnail in such an unappealing manner that I'm not inclined to click. On a photography list I'm going to the blog to see the photo not read about it.
And finally maybe, somewhat rudely, but not intended so, I find a blog a bit akin to watching someone's home movies. They tend to mean much more to the creator than to the audience, and so come across, to me at least, as somewhat mundane. My own blog of course would be very interesting and compelling. I much prefer a single link to an image, or a gallery of thumbnails, as opposed to an image thumbnail surrounded by a lot of text. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > I'm manly lurking... real life at the moment is complicated enough... > (including a dead keyboard for a bit) but I'm hopping on > to second Doug Franklin's approach... having been around in the days of > Shel, Dobo, Mafud and the like when > nastiness took up too much space . > > I prefer email from the to blogs because I download it all in to a separate > folder and it is easier to deal with. It seems a bit less "out there" > than blogs, too. I'm leary of blogging, though at some point I suppose I > ought to do it. > > Bear in mind, too, that there are any number of people on this list whose > real life occupations are far far more important in the general > scheme of things and away from the web. that the get pics up here at all is > a frigging miricle. > ann > annsan.smugmug.com > > There is also > > Doug Franklin wrote: > >> On 2010-06-29 16:15, eckinator wrote: >> >>> In a nutshell I would love for the >>> etiquette of this list to make room for more critical comments, I >>> rarely see anyone saying an image doesn't work[...] >> >> >> I'll praise a photo in public, but if I'm going to criticize it more than >> a little, I'll typically do it privately by direct email. >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
