Storytelling, online
There’s nothing technical about this post (sorry for all those that expect me to be a techie 24×7). It’s about story telling, and my realization of a few things. Yesterday I made a lead, you know, a lead to plug two things, or as Wikipedia says, “An electrical connection consisting of a length of wire”. I hear you asking, “um, what’s the online bit of the title”, well, I Flickr‘d and Twitter‘d it as I went.
- 01:38 PM Argh, I don’t have the right leads to plug my studio monitors in. I need loud music fix.
- 01:38 PM Screw it! Out comes soldering iron/mini blow torch, audio leads, connectors & adapters etc. Real hacking kids.
- 02:05 PM The prototype works, http://flickr.com/photos/bu… now the soldering. Note how I ran out of real tape, brown had to do.
- 03:21 PM Prototype to finished product, http://flickr.com/photos/bu… & successfully listening to music on studio monitors.
I had great fun with this. Yes, it was basic, but I’m not really good with wires (yet, I’d love to learn more), onto ‘my realization of a few things’:
- It’s always software these days. Seeing finished objects (no matter how small) rocks. It’s so easy to forget this when we deal with software day-in-day-out. Touchable, real world “stuff” is where it’s at.
- Eargasm is a word (well, by Urban Dictionary standards)
- Story telling is another subject I’m not great at, but I’m getting the feeling Twitter is good for telling your story. What your thinking & doing. It’s obvious, but what with Twitter being full of people just @replying sometimes it’s worth reminding yourself
The more technical bit
Ok, couldn’t resist. If your eagle eyed you may have spotted that I machine tagged the photo of the final product, I’ve thought for a while it’d be cool to have a service that tracks specific conversations on Twitter, you could also pull images from Flickr about that conversations.