icons, and FB's hidden agenda?

[charmian]

1. Give your two cents on how many icons you would want in an ideal world.

Actually, my honest answer would be "around ten or so, but I can even make do with one," so my use case is so far from what's being discussed there that it's not even funny. XD I suck so hard at making icons (I was trying to make some Ravages of Time ones, but the art really doesn't shrink down well) that I was all like "bleh, might as well just stick with this wol." For me, as a paid feature, polls are more important than having multiple icons. (And I don't really use those that much either... I must say, honestly for me, the paid features of an LJ/fork/clone don't really impact my daily usage of the site.)

I use Tumblr and Posterous (and Disqus to comment on Tumblr) and honestly, I don't really care that on those sites I can have only one icon. Heck, right now on my default layout on Tumblr, you can't even see my icon in the posts there.

2. A blogger remarks, re: FB's enhanced granular privacy features that they aren't really about privacy, but about publishing and competing with Twitter, which is an interesting hypothesis. Seems a bit far fetched, though, to claim it's also with Wordpress.

I wonder if this means that other platforms will begin to incorporate granula privacy in a manner similar to FB's implementaton of it?

Comments

Your position on icons

[fromastudio]

....word. *heartfelt*

Re: Your position on icons

[charmian]

Heh, I guess I'm not the only one, then. XD I simply can't be bothered to pick out more than one icon.

[matgb]

To an extent, notes do count as a type of actual blogging--I import there, and know friends who use them exclusively--sometimes the quality of comments on a note can be very high and useful feedback. I sometimes get more comments on an import than on the original post.

So FB can compete, and well, with anything, if that's what they want to do.

Interesting times.

[charmian]

Yeah, they are a kind of blogging. However, IMHO they don't really work well when compared to Wordpress, because of the lack of SEO etc. However, if you're more interested in journaling, I think they might work fairly well.