As is my prerogative, the photos I took of the actual event at FOWA are hugely unrelated. Anything else is a result of socialising afterwards. You don’t get any of the content in pictures of speakers, so why bother?

Taking photos of the signs at these things is so passé. Too many people crowding it.

Believe it or not, the least subtle plugs of products at FOWA were the big, constant lights on the walls. I know, right?

Marionette on Portobello Road

That’s some awareness of colour, when your house matches your car.

Was it gravity, Charlotte nearly flying across the road to a boutique?

Olives suck.

Man-up.

I’ve made some changes. If you see anything that looks wrong (and you don’t use IE6), let me know.

OK, so I’ve hit my saturation point with Twitter. I now follow 87 people, and it’s too much. I appear to have entered a little sub-social circle, in which everyone re-tweets everyone else’s tweets. I’ve already voiced my displeasure at the phenomenon that is re-tweeting and it’s really ruining the whole thing for me now. So now, I’m going to be cleansing my following list. It’s nothing personal if you go, you probably just talk too much about stuff that I don’t care about.

Social sites are brilliant. There are literally hundreds of billions of people on the internet, sharing useless, irrelevant information all day when they should be working and paying their taxes. You can really profit from this information by distracting yourself from the harsh, depressing inevitability of life, spending all of your cash on things you don’t really need, or convincing this electronic community that you’re actually cool, even though you’re actually not. Don’t get me wrong, I love the social web – I use delicious, twitter, youtube and facebook and I really benefit from them. I’m in the exact age group and hobby-set that most of this shared information applies to, yet I’m still not happy. I’m not happy because I’m not cool enough for a ffffound.com invite.

I’ve Googled for ffffound.com invites and I’m not alone. There are literally some other people who want these invites, but are in the same group of uncool people who won’t get an invite to this site, and are forced to passively view the stream of great images collated by the individuals in the know.

This all got me to thinking, is it a good thing that I’m not allowed in this community? What do I have to bring to the table? The popularity of my blog is proof positive that my images aren’t universally appealing enough to garner popularity on their own, so who wants to look at images that I like? Do I have time to positively contribute to this site? “Yes”, “Nothing”, “No-one” and “No”. My favourite thing about ffffound is the fact that idiots aren’t allowed (and if they do get in, they low enough in numbers to not gain power in moronic numbers (see: Youtube or any blog with open comments)). This is further confirmed by the fact that weheartit is nearly an unbearable stream of pretentious rubbish, arty muff-shots (a middle-waste-ground between art and porn that does nothing for no-one, and should be stopped) and images from ffffound that I already saw on the ffffound feed!

I’ve been getting the feed from ffffound for a few days now, and there are around 50-100 images a day that are top quality, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s because they don’t let people like me in. I’ve nothing to share, except my view on shared images (which no-one cares about anyway) so it’s right I shouldn’t be allowed to join. If people like me were allowed to join, it’d just be another Youtube, and who wants that?! Not me, that’s who.

ffffound – do us all a favour – keep it exclusive, don’t let idiots in!

So, I’ve been going on and on about all the cool stuff I’m going to do with this domain. By the time I actually get round to doing it, it’s already been done by people who are getting paid for it so there’s no point really. I spend all day making the Internet and, now that I’m working my ass off all day, I’m not really in the mood for big projects when I get through the door!

I’m not really too sure what I’m going to do with this blog, but I’m always reading things and thinking “I’ve got an opinion on that and the world needs to know about it”, so who knows? I can be found in some capacity all on loads of social sites, bookmarking, making videos, listening to music, telling you what I’m doing, tumbling or taking photos (but don’t get me started on flickr right now!) so if you use them, be my friend!

As you can see, the page is WordPress’ default. My hopes are that Jordan is going to rectify this very soon using his elite skills, but I know he’s very busy so it could take a little while.