filling the interstitials

Small digital tasks are colonising our interstitial attention space. You know that of course, or you would if you had a moment. But you don't have a moment. It's useful time. It can be activated for any number of useful items of piecework, complete with prompts and reminders. Here's what I'm doing at the moment:

• Google guides: My reviews have now had over 20,000 views, though how many of them have been simulated by click farms is open to question.
• Google photos: My photos are as popular, with clear descriptive photos of local supermarkets way out ahead in the popularity ratings.
• Google timeline: Picks up everywhere I (or the bus I'm in) hesitate briefly outside, and when its a place that closed years ago, I do feel compelled to tell Google this is the case.
• Pokémon Go: Got to catch them all, and there are quite a lot of them.
• Instagram: In particular accurately tagged descriptive images because Tim Berners Lee told me about the semantic web when I was a low ebb and it got built into my behaviours.
• Facebook: A subsection of my social group conduct their business here, as do most of the music people.
• Whatsapp: A further subsection of my social group conduct their business here.
• Twitter: A further subsection of my social group conduct their business here, and I also use it for wildlife observations.
• Flickr: A photographic timeline of visual significance in my life.
• Livejournal: Because I'm not done with long-form blogging just yet.
• Blogger: For all things gardening, as well as whatever this is.

 That can't be all, can it? There are surely some open channels that could be used still there.

Just to catch up on what stuck and what didn't

sniff the air
Originally uploaded by Jeremy Dennis

I'm still on Facebook, but I've not gone looking for my colleagues. Bebo has gone down about as well as Myspace, i.e. I'll have one but I'm unlikely to do anything much with it. Del.icio.us just feels kind of pointless -- I'm using Tumblr when I just want to bookmark something -- Tumblr is also getting everything too embarassing for my Livejournal (ouch) but I worry that it's depleting the Livejournal. Something called Virb is too Beta to use yet, sorry, and Dandelife is great! But alas I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME (and never will). Yahoo 360 is never going to get used as it's essentially the same as my Livejournal except with a different set of bugs, plus ads and branding. YUK. LastFM is a big drag to use on my antique Macbook, but I'm persevering, for now. I've not gone back to Jaiku, because I can't take posting by text seriously. For the same reason, I'm still chirping away to Twitter. Freecycle and Flickr will be seeing more of me, the various Second Life types places won't.

For work, the two community sites identified as the most flexible, reliable and popular among the target age group (13-19) were Bebo and Myspace.

See you in the comments threads

Jeremy