My first Youtube video!

9 de fevereiro de 2009

Hi y’all :)

Please watch my first video in YouTube: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3D3XO2TLN8

I recorded this video a few days ago and now I decided to upload it to youtube as my first contribution to the world amateur media. :)

No sound this time hauehae but I think i’ll try and do a better video later.

Yo People!

31 de janeiro de 2009

Hello you all! :)

It’s been a time since I gave some attention to the English version of this blog. Maybe even the Portuguese version of the blog is quite forgotten for at least a month, though the last time I tried to post something we got a server error and the results were unbearable. 

I’m still not so sure about what to write in the English version of the blog, as it seems quite not right to translate everything to English. Also, I’ll be honest and confess I’m also not sure on what to write. Yeah, sad isn’t it? XD I don’t want to re-post news and technology updates from other websites nor hotlink images just to make the blog beautiful. That’d be death!

Beyond that, that’s always the perfectionism issue. If it’s to write something it has to be the best way possible. I know things don’t happen like that and a great text will only come as long as I write and practice my English, text and editing skills. But, I think this kind of feeling it’s not only felt by me. Many starters in the blogging platform also feel insecure on what/how to write until they start to get some good feedback.

I wonder if it’s plausible for me to write about more than just technology and Internet. It might be wrong not to concentrate the blog subject in a well delimited area and so lose the focus of the whole project, but there are times in which I don’t feel confortable to discuss technology matters. I guess that’s the reason why someone created the “Random” category. LoL

I thought it’d be quite interesting to do some podcasts but that requires time, attention and audio editing abilites, something I have but not as a pro. What’s lacking in me is organization. I NEED to Get Things Done urgently, because if I don’t I’ll be known as the guy who creates many blogs and don’t write in any of them :P Frustrating, isn’t it? XD 

So, for now on let’s only focus in social media and technology matters regarding the digital inclusion and so on. If the co-writer of this blog, Demolution, wants to write anything about the gaming experience he’s free to do it, just don’t expect for me to do such thing, readers :)

I hope this post don’t fade away as the other one I created days ago. See you in the next post.

Take the right pill

30 de outubro de 2008

I’m not sure if I’m going to translate every single word from the Portuguese version of this blog to here, once it’d be really artificial just to copy posts there and paste them here in another language without considering the cultural background our english readers might have different from the ones in my mother language.

This blog, as I said in the About page, is a blog which focus on the cyberculture subject. I’ve seen many bloggers who write about technology, how this affect in our daily life and many of them are really great, but there’s something else to be written. Indeed, one might say I just didn’t find any place to read about cyberculture probably and I’ll reply: I had. It’s just that I feel like I also have something to say.

Nevertheless, I also feel obligated to at least try and make a brief comment on the cyberculture concept. As I did with the Portuguese version I now summon Wikipedia:

Cyberculture is a wide social and cultural movement closely linked to advanced information science and information technology, their emergence, development and rise to social and cultural prominence between the 1960s and the 1990s. Cyberculture was influenced at its genesis by those early users of the Internet, frequently including the architects of the original project. These individuals were often guided in their actions by the hacker ethic. While early cyberculture was based on a small cultural sample, and its ideals, the modern cyberculture is a much more diverse group of users and the ideals that they espouse.

As a matter of fact cyberculture extends its influence to many people nowadays, and like culture itself, sometimes it’s not even realized by people. Yet, many people like me, or the reader, has at least the idea of the greatness of such concept and contributes with the cyberculture vividly: be it in blogs, fotologs, participating in digital social networks, whatever. The range of this culture though, for me, is much more extensive. There’ll be a time that anything we want related to our lives will be in the Internet (hasn’t this time already arrive?)

Anyway, I can’t explain cyberculture much more or I might be in distress and lose the grip of what I want really to say and what I’m going to write in the next blogs. Nevertheless, I anticipate many of the debates we are going to initiate in here: we’re gonna talk about gaming, trolling, socializing in the web, et cetera. We may be able to have fun I guess, unless someone hack us :P

If this is to happen, I’m won’t hesitate to be hacked if the hacker is someone I would love to meet sometime in the future: