Friday, October 5, 2007

Blogger Play


Quote of the day:
“The world is proof that God is a committee.”
--Bob Stokes

I was going to write about all kinds of extremely important world-changing stuff today, but I’ve been sidetracked.

Have you seen Blogger Play yet? The folks at Blogger have enabled a live slideshow of pictures being uploaded to their site in real time. At first, it sounds like it would be profoundly uninteresting.

You just go to play.blogger.com, and the pictures and graphics just start rolling by. I have it playing in the corner of my screen as I write this.

There are pictures of a wedding, a trip to Rome, another to Greece, another to Mexico, there’s someone’s puppy, a food shot, a stock chart, an artistic shot, another dog, a comic book, an album cover, a baby, a family, a street in an unknown city, someone’s great-grandmother, Barack Obama standing next to a Superman statue, more wedding shots, a bowl of fruit, a soccer game, a backyard, three kids, several 20-somethings drunk in a bar and on and on.

It never stops. And it’s mesmerizing.

It would be easy to call this a “portrait of humanity.” But I’m afraid it’s not that, exactly. It’s a portrait of people who want to share parts of their lives and they have this means to do so.

There is an international, global flavor to the site. How about that? All these folks from all these different places want to share a piece or two of themselves.

There are lots of interesting and unusual people among us. And we seem to have a lot in common.

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