morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
You can port yourself out of one pair of trousers into another. Easy as anything.
You cannot port your data out of Facebook into another kind of Facebook-like thing.
Any organization that has recorded and organized its data using some ERP, can it easily port that data out into another ERP?
The amount of data getting accumulated for every single person cannot be revisited by that person or by any person at all. Except the bots.
But yes, something may have to be retrieved from such data. At what time, what date? 5 years from now? 2 years from now? Who even knows!
All the storage in the world is created for such data.
But if you attempt to store in your own individual capacity, you would lose most of it. Why? Digital storage media, at least the popular ones, are not durable.
And so you pay for digital data storage that is un-revisitable. And you keep paying. Only bots can revisit. You can retrieve something essential only if you remember that it is in storage and if you know what to ask to the machine to retrieve such data.
Incredible phenomenon!
That’s right. There are sellers (who stock and trade in branded goods) and there are brand-owners, and then there are platforms.
The three entities are different. I see that mistakes made by platforms and sellers often put the brand down.
Take this for example. I search for a product on Amazon. I see the star-reviews. I notice low-star-reviews too. I am curious why the product has gotten such bad reviews. I check the reviews out. Turns out the seller or the delivery partner with whom the seller has partnered is at fault.
The first look of those low-star-reviews is misleading. Works against the brand-owners.
I’ve been using this Philips trimmer-shaver for quite a few years now.
Only this morning I powered it with this brand new battery, Eveready Ultima Alkaline.
My trimmer-shaver never ever worked this way. Never ever. Never ever. And I never got a better trim than this.
All the while I used Duracell to power this gadget. And all the experiences of using this made me feel like these trimmers-shavers behave in a certain ‘non-satisfactory’ way; that’s the way they are built, that’s the limit of their performance, no matter the brand or company.
Today’s experience with this Eveready Ultima Alkaline changed it all. Only now I get it that the gadget was actually made for such a performance. And only today I was in a position to experience and compare the performances.
I thought Duracell was the best; the gadget was built like that. Turns out the gadget was built for a super performance and Duracell was the culprit.
It didn’t have to be this way but it has turned out this way. Even with all the awareness and heightened senses, it takes time to discover what’s quality.
Remember, Eveready Ultima Alkaline. No, I am not paid to promote this but the drastic difference in my shaving experience makes me write for it.
Servers can serve as serving machines. Your tap on the FB icon is asking the server to serve you with something. Not necessarily decided by you what you ought to be served.
Servers can’t be turned into distribution machines. Just because you post doesn’t mean your post is going everywhere or to everyone.
They go with the moniker of Digital Marketers. Their vocabulary is limited and so every other digital ad starts with something like ‘Elevate’ or ‘Level up’ or just ‘Up’ or some such word indicating ‘high’ in some way.
Youngsters think that being able to use graphic design software makes them creative and being able to place ads in social media by looking at metrics makes them a marketer.
Excessive laptopping and smart-phoning has made us robots or machine operators.
I have admitted that, to make certain things, I have to be a machine-operator, no more.
I must understand how intricate forms are created.
Without being a machine-operator, I will not understand how to set up algorithms.
We create an ecom website on Shopify. We do not like it for some reason. We want to create a new website without using some other platform. Everything is there but the structure we created on Shopify won’t port (or move) to another platform just like that.
You do not like a Toyota, you can go try a Honda or a Ford or whatever. There’s no issue of porting.
You do not like a Lamy, you can go try a Jinhao or a Diplomat or something else. There’s no issue of porting.
The issue of data and structure porting almost ensures imprisonment.
Stories always meant moving and motioning.
Carvings and sculptures required us to move, non-metaphorically, on our legs in space, to hear and imagine all the stories, narrated by self or someone else.
And personal stories were hidden in all sorts of objects. Visiting and revisiting the objects meant retelling the stories to ourselves.
Books required us to sit. Eyes read and voices worked with the written letters and words. Stories would have to be heard often in our heads, silently.
Motion pictures move the images, stories and voices while we keep sitting. The stories fall into eyes and ears. They fall. We do not work as much to tell and retell the stories.
Will Google ever be able to rank its search results based on the quality of couplets and poems written on a web-page?
No?
There you have the quality of the engine and the quality of commerce promoted by the engine.
Disagree? Sure. Write a couplet of disagreement, can you?
I mean Facebook Feed Extractor.
I want something like that to analyze the feed that I am scrolling. Would open a bit the tightly shut algorithmic blackbox that influences the way I use my time.
Would you want one? Is there already one available?
Am tempted to explore the INBOX WORLD.
Is that a good name? INBOX WORLD. What do you make of it?
Where does data reside? In a database?
Want to move data? Move the database. How?
Portability? Publishing templates like blogs can often be ported; I haven’t tried it but I can imagine coz the template is simple enough generally. And yet, there could be problems.
Can you withdraw all your data? And keep where?
I said to myself let me learn how to send newsletters.
And I set a few things to send newsletters using Zoho Campaigns.
I also subscribed to certain Reddit topics concerning newsletters.
What do I find? To pass through the filters of a service like Gmail, newsletter itself has to conform to so many conditions, has to follow a certain template.
You are in a battle of intentions.
You have spammy intentions, says Gmail.
No, I don’t, I say.
No, you surely do, and I’ll keep you out right from the first (news)letter. You spammer! I curse you now; the destiny of your (news)letters is the spam-box. To spam you go!
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Have these storage devices and memory cards and chips matched paper in durability?
Is this the right time to assess this at all?
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