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"As an entrant to the WikiWorldBook competition my job specifications were to test its functionality and flex... spurred thoughts and actions about how I and others use the internet. "

Another beta non-process: uploading to the gallery didn't work. I'd already begun to experiment with Livejournal's scrapbook. Although they don't have the same level of community participation enabled as Flickr, it were a very clean process. As with flickr there is free uploading software available. Livejournal's limits on tags also seems to be a problem got around by uploading in image form.

I had hoped to preview my comic 'Gran'* on WWB, though problems with doing this in groups, and on posts....and groups don't like apostrophes in the text, which is an example of perhaps too much liberation ? I noticed a pattern as to why these wouldn't upload at all. I were doing this in the nocturnal hours.

(see Truckstop Andrew II : Now with added Milkman Andrew)

I also couldnt invite people to groups making competing more difficult. Until circadian rhythms became less anachronistic with the majority of the working locals. Plenty doing elsewhere. The liberation from imposing Livejournal-Flickr loyalty on myself...

I keyed into something I considered vitally missing from Facebook. Tumblr, del.ici.ous, and digg though I'd had them recommended, were so new that I can't yet ascertain if you can 'friend' people, margin-link people. They were at that point uncluttered by posted invites to games, videos and tunes. The explorer in me allowed to breathe and not be guided every step of the way. Which is nice. Theres a paper by some social studies folk on child exploration of the internet which I think is relevant here. Studying internet fears, the paper suggested that the adult-child joint exploration of the interwebs helped to build a bond in its sharing of time and activity. Parents fears were allayed, and the child were in a safe environment. In feudal regions, particularly in this age of 'The B.S. War On Some Terror' that wars illusion's permutation creates a fear of cross-border travel. The interwebbing, as with the many cures it has brought (and yet to be discovered), allays this to an extent.

Another aspect of the study, which is 'Holy Lemons !' (yep ),suggested children by participating in a filtered internet may be protected against ills in the short term. However this excludes the enablement of building immunity and coping strategies in the growing lifeform. Its good to get out. Feh to conceit, feh to predicting being able to see most of the universe from one vantage point. I like to consider my friends among the best, they are not however infallible.

In Part III: Ninja birds, and WWB Cheat Modes and Development

 *'Gran' and several of my other comics are now available on The Internet Archive .