I love The Big Picture
I love The Big Picture
Two Italian brothers, incredibly, monitored the radio transmissions of the US and Soviet space race in the sixties. It’s a fascinating story of their ingenuity, the intrigue of the Cold War, and the possibility of a secret, behind-the-scenes Soviet space program.
They recorded a number of chilling transmissions which they claim are of lost cosmonauts from the black space program, hushed up and hidden by the USSR.
“It was a signal we recognised immediately as Morse code – SOS,” said Gian. But something about this signal was strange. It was moving slowly, as if the craft was not orbiting but was at a single point and slowly moving away from the Earth. The SOS faded into distant space.
Thanks, Guy, for the intriguing pointer.
Mt. Etna volcano as seen from the Space Shuttle, thanks to The Big Picture.
And this and Disqus both require that the person doing the comment establish an identity association with some service: it seems you gotta sign up. That’s adequate but not great.
For Disqus, an account is just a convenience, not a requirement. A person can comment through Disqus without an account.
But, I didn’t mean to proffer Disqus (or the others like it) as The Way, just as an answer to your specific question. The point I was trying to make, in fact, was that it’s not The Way.
The Way is for commenters to reply in our own web space, however we prefer, linking back to the subject. I’d rather we spent time building tools to help people locate and manage the distributed conversation than tools that, contrary to the nature of the web, try to centralize it.
Tumblr’s built-in reblogging mechanism is an interesting tool for tracking the conversation. It only does so amongst the Tumblr community, but it encourages the linking back to the subject that allows for broader tools.
Brier demanded I start a tumblr thingie.
“Now I have a place to put my hand.”
And, incidentally, this is a comment, you weiner.
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So, this is awfully disappointing. A “web” application that requires you to be using a Mac or a PC. This screenshot is taken with a supported browser, just not on a supported operating system, apparently.
It’d be silly, but okay if that Continue button took you to the application after the warning about recommended browsers, but it doesn’t. All you get from Firefox 3 on Linux is this page.
It’s not so useful if I can’t get to my data from any web browser.
“Depending on which side of the bed I wake up on, blogging is either the vainest possible act of self-puffery, practiced by those who want to believe they are a lot more important than they actually are, or an unprecedented revolution in human communication, no less important of a historical record than the hand-written letters and journals of centuries past.” — Steven Frank