So recently, I’ve been seeing a few posts and articles circulating around the web that are basically hating on Google Plus and, well, as a Google+ lover, I think that’s pretty awesome. Huh!?? Yup. You see, it’s not often that something as seemingly trivial as this really rocks my boat, but considering the extremely polar opposite experience that I’ve had on the platform, and the second glass of single-malt I’m working on, I felt compelled to spurt out a late-night response to it all. This ‘rant’ centers around why I think the haters are helping the platform rise above the rest.
Tag: frederick van johnson
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Why Google Plus Haters Are The Best Thing For Google Plus
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So this is a bit of an untraditional post for me, but I couldn’t help myself…I just finished listening to the latest episode of The Digital Photo Experience podcast hosted by Rick Sammon and Juan Pons, which I HIGHLY recommend if it’s not already in your playlist, and they were interviewing Frederick Van Johnson of the This Week in Photo (TWiP) podcast, another one that is a MUST for you photography peeps…but anyway, Frederick is apparently a modest and humble creature, which is quite refreshing, because until that interview I had NO idea about two incredible things going on in his life that actually affects us all:
One, he is the new Vice Chairman of the Board at the Brooks Institute of Photography, so congrats to him.But two, and even more relevant to us all, is his pet project, MediaBytes.com. This is perfect. The part that’s most important to us photographers in this day and age is…where and how do we fit into the maddening pace of the ever-shifting industry? What direction is it all headed?