‘Take that, Google!’
I did start the account creation process with Google [so I could upload my videos to Youtube], but when I was asked to verify both my email address and my phone, I started to get goosebumps, and not in a good way. This is a small part of Google’s privacy [sic] statement:
It was about this point that my survival instincts kicked in again and I aborted the process, or at least I tried to. I very much fear that my phone number is forever in Google’s possession. Given that it’s an Android phone I’m very glad I have GPS turned off. 😦
Anyway, with Youtube no longer an option, I went looking for alternatives and discovered that WordPress.com allows Vimeo videos! Yay and double yay. 🙂
So here is my rather ambitious Plotagon video entitled ‘Prepare for Induction’:
cheers
Meeks
Meeka's Mind 
January 19th, 2020 at 1:59 am
That was so cool. Nice job on the vimeo. 🙂 That looks complicated. Was it hard to do?
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January 19th, 2020 at 8:52 am
Thanks, Diana. 🙂 No, not hard to do, just time consuming. Trouble is, you don’t notice the time passing and suddenly it’s dinner time and there’s no dinner… 🙂
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January 19th, 2020 at 9:22 am
Ha ha ha. We have scrambled eggs on those nights. 🙂
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January 19th, 2020 at 10:37 am
Ahem, yes. We call them ‘fry ups’ and yes, they feature eggs… 😀
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January 18th, 2020 at 1:42 pm
“…I promise noting will go wrong.” Hah! … run girl, you are in danger!!!
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January 19th, 2020 at 8:58 am
-giggles- Awww Widds, you guessed!
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January 19th, 2020 at 2:41 pm
😀
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January 18th, 2020 at 12:31 pm
So cool!
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January 18th, 2020 at 12:31 pm
And hella worrisome about Google and FB. Ugh.
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January 19th, 2020 at 8:59 am
Yeah. No one ever reads the so-called privacy statements. ‘Free’ is this poisoned carrot dangling in front of all our noses. 😦
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January 19th, 2020 at 9:00 am
Thank you, thank you. 😀 😀
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January 17th, 2020 at 2:26 pm
Actually that is a very cool video! I must admit I hesitate before allowing any of these third-party mega-corps to have personal information about me – some of it, alas, can’t be helped. What worries me is the amount they are likely siphoning anyway. And it’s not so much what this private data will be used for by the collector, it’s what happens to it after that, particularly if an end-user applies the “2 + 2 = 5” principle and criminalises the innocent. for unwittingly or coincidentally matching whatever they judge to be wrong. Oddly, Frank Zappa predicted just this outcome in the corporate-commercial dystopia he portrayed in ‘Joe’s Garage’ (1979).
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January 17th, 2020 at 2:38 pm
Thanks, Matthew! And I agree. It’s naive in the extreme to believe that all of this personal data isn’t being siphoned off, or even on-sold to underworld types who then use it for their own, malicious purposes. In fact, I’ve often wondered how much of these big hacking events are related to information hoovered up by the social media behemoths. After all, if that info can be used to identify individuals, and it can, how hard would it be to work out the passwords used by individuals working in sensitive areas? My guess is, not hard at all. Most of us are pretty uncreative when it comes to passwords.
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January 17th, 2020 at 9:05 am
I was reading recently about the importance of doing many things, of not pigeon-holing ourselves. Well, you are doing that in spades! I know you have always loved techie things, and here you are, combining your writing with your technical knowledge to make new goodies for us!
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January 17th, 2020 at 10:33 am
-grin- Thanks Anne, but it’s just me being a Jill-of-all-Trades and master of none. I do have fun though, and learning new things keeps the creative juices flowing. Anyway, you can’t talk, from botanical drawing to tapestry! 😀 😀
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January 17th, 2020 at 4:48 am
That’s good. How long did it take to put it together, including the learning curve?
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January 17th, 2020 at 10:43 am
About 2 days, including the learning curve. I have to tell you though, the part that takes the longest is experimenting with the different ’emotions’ because they change, subtly, depending on what comes before and after. That friendly, slightly quizzical look on Kenneth’s face comes from the ‘Happy’ option, but I found it quite by accident because I certainly wasn’t aiming for him to look happy. So yeah, a lot of experimentation. I have a feeling that the emotions appear slightly different depending on which combination of facial features you choose.
Bottom line though, it’s /easy/. And fun. 🙂
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January 17th, 2020 at 4:19 am
I use Vimeo too.
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January 17th, 2020 at 10:47 am
High Five! The last couple of days have been a real learning curve for me. I’d seen vimeo videos but it never occurred to me to use the site myself. Honestly? I assumed vimeo was for the seriously arty types. -blush- I’ve been so pleasantly surprised. I’m using the Basic but it’s more than enough for me to test the waters. How are you finding it?
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January 17th, 2020 at 11:12 am
I really like the animations in particular. So many truly talented people on Vimeo. I feel I am reaching into another world.
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January 17th, 2020 at 11:39 am
I haven’t done much exploring yet, but there’s an honesty to vimeo that I like. It has free and it has paid plans and it’s all up front. Youtube is now this nagging hybrid with Big Brother peering over everyone’s shoulder.
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January 17th, 2020 at 11:42 am
I love Vimeo. Thank you for putting it into words. It does feel like I am more in control.
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January 17th, 2020 at 4:11 am
Hey. You use Plotagon too. I have been through the same experience with You Tube. I think all this is now an unfortunate reality of the modern world. They know everything about us. I love watching the ads and trying to work out , where I have been pigeon-holed. For me decades ago I was of this. Long story.
I have also switched from You Tube, owing to the new, confusing regulations.
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January 17th, 2020 at 10:51 am
I still use Youtube to find music videos, and how-to videos, but for new stuff, I much prefer Soundcloud. It’s just for music, no videos, but it’s where a lot of Indie musicians got their start, and I love discovering new composers.
I think I’ll be using vimeo a lot more from now on. Facebook and Google think they ‘own’ the world. I really, really hate that they almost do. 😦
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January 17th, 2020 at 2:18 am
That’s great! I wish they could smooth out the digital voices, but that’s not a you problem, that’s a them problem. How long would you estimate it took you to make that video?
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January 17th, 2020 at 10:56 am
Actually, the voices sounded a lot smoother on Plotagon itself. Some of the ‘crunching’ has come about because I chose to upload a mid sized file. Even so it was 35MB. As my weekly limit is 500MB and total is only 5GB, I’m trying to find the sweet spot between quality and file size. Haven’t quite got it yet, but close.
Oh! The voices have a lot of trouble with ‘you’re’. In the beginning I fudged things by typing in ‘your’ instead. But that then made the subtitles look as if I couldn’t spell. -sigh- So I rewrote what I could and decided to live with ‘yurrrr’.
All up, it took me two days to get to the point of being able to produce something that didn’t make me cringe. Give it a try. But be warned, it can become…addictive. 😉
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January 17th, 2020 at 12:14 am
It made me remember her asking him that question in the book. She was pretty friendless at that time.
Hugs
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January 17th, 2020 at 10:59 am
-massive hugs- Thank you for remembering! You’ve made my day! Actually, probably my whole week. 😀
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