#Fiddme

It all started with my friend Yosi Taguri and his iphone obsession. Not only iphone obsession, food photography obsession. Not only that, other tweople have started taking photos of their food with their phones and started tagging them with #fiddme. come see what people are sharing about #fiddme on Twitter.

Twitter is moments

I think Twitter is a phenomenon. Not only do people tweet what they do, what they think, what they want and where they are, people tweet their food.
Twitter is moments. Twitter is moments being shared like never before, and moreover, it's your moments, and the good thing about it is that it lets you share your moments and then you find people who like your moments and who share theirs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but people who you call your "friends" are people with whom you share your moments. So yes, i know, not everyone you follow is a friend, but Twitter lets you start with the moments issue a priori and that, in my opinion, is amazing. When you meet your Twitter friends you already know so much about them, even if its just 140 characters long. You know who they know, you know where they went, you know their favorite restaurants, their field of work and more. You know a lot.

Back to fiddme

The most amazing thing about fiddme is that unlike real time events that peak the Twitter trends scale from time to time (earthquakes, elections, wars, stuff like that), #fiddme caught the Israeli Twittersphere in a way that it's almost obvious that when you go eat something, you'll take a picture of your food and twit it.

Me and food

I shot food a few times in my career, but i find that sharing it with people is so much more fun. So I started with my iphone, but then realized I want to invest more in it, so it meant investing in preparing my food at home. So I invested
These shots were taken at home with my Nikon D200, with regular lighting, nothing fancy… hope you enjoy, (click on the photos, the interface rocks) and would love to hear your thoughts about Twitter and your life with it.

Yesterday at @jeffpulver's breakfast my friend Idan Gazit shot a video where he interviewed some people about… well, all sorts of things. It turned out great, and funny, and I loved it so much that I wanted to share it with you. THANK YOU IDAN!!!

Jeff Pulver Social Media Breakfast – Feb 2009 from Idan Gazit on Vimeo.

In the last 2 weeks I've proudly been a part of a group, a social media task force, which goal is to fight a war on the social web, a war on the world's public opinion.
In the last 2 weeks I've found myself watching hundreds of videos, reading reports, columns, blog posts, tracking comments, everything social media you can think about.
If you're asking yourself what does that have to do with my post's title- It's this- Pornography is winning the public opinion of this war. War has nothing to do with logic, has nothing to do with reason, has nothing to do with facts. In today's wars, the side who uses more pornography wins.

When this is the case, and when I'm standing on Israel's side, Israel is losing the world's public opinion because WE use less pornography while the other side is a pornography manufacturer, and you know how people like watching pornography. What do I mean when I say pornography? I just deleted a comment from a spammer that linked to an Aljazeera page, showing dead children, leaving no room for anything but sadness. This is the link, this is what I mean when I say pornography, war pornography.

It's only when I came across some pro Israeli videos, that I realized I'm watching pornography and that WE don't make use of it.
For years, Israel has been suffering from Terror attacks. We lived in fear from people who raise their children to want to die while killing Jews. We are bitter when the world comes to us, blaming us vicious blood sucking Jews, that "innocent women and children" die when we go fight terror. When we tell the world Hamas is using the population as Human Shilds, it's not enough, I don't know why, maybe it's the Jew filter the world has, or maybe… maybe it's that we're not using pornography.
Should we use war pornography? Will this help the world see something else other than being totally blind to what Israel is saying?

Let's see if we can make good pornography. The Next 2 videos are very hard to watch, but they do the trick. Don't watch them if you're sensitive. The last video I'll call soft porn. It works great on subtle Europeans and post post traumatic Americans and also do the trick.

I am so utterly excited about the upcoming release of Star Trek 11 in May 2009, with a new and young Kirk, a young Spock and a young crew… of actors and of writers with J.J Abrahms at the helm.

I have been a Star Trek fan even before I was a Star Trek Fan… I became a fan when I was 14.
At 16 realized i would love it forever, at 21 I opened a Hebrew website (kinda like a blog) and wrote there about Star Trek Enterprise' s weekly episodes for 4 years, at 25 I led the Israeli campaign to Save Enterprise as a part of the international campaign. Yes, I'm a Trekkie, I'm proud of it.

As you all know, Enterprise never made it after season 4. The TV ratings were low, but the episode downloads were very high. Like many other TV shows, there are more viewers online than there are viewers on TV. you know what I mean, right?

It's almost 2009 now and Trekkie stays a Trekkie, but I'm also into social media and the affect it has on people is astonishing.

Now I wonder, its the social media era, we're all into buzz, socializing and avanglizing the stuff we love, and Star Trek 11-  this one has to succeed this time because if it fails, the suits at Viacom will never give another chance to trek through the stars again and we have to make it work (I hope a successful movie will create a new series, or another movie, or a mini series, or something), and it can work, if we all work together on this, link to the movie site (it's great by the way), link to each other, buzz it, push it higher, beam it up to where no movie has gone before, it's in our hands. Make it so.

Here are some screen shots from the new Star Trek trailer, have fun.

ps- if you're a Trekkie too leave me a msg, its been a while since i've met new Trekkie friends

Yesterday was Wordcamp Israel 2008 and I was asked to be the photographer for this event, so i was, gladly. Many others already wrote about this event, plus, my original post was lost somehow, so this is actually my second post I write about WordpressIsrael2008, the tag for this event in search engines.

So, because so many people already wrote about this, I just wanna share with you that I uploaded 144 photos to my Facebook Albums and that they are available to the public even though my profile is limited to friends only. I have also uploaded something like 30 somthing photos to Flickr.

The fun part in Facebook is that people tag other people, and even people who are not my friends can view and tag photos. It was so much fun getting more than 60 notifications from facebook about tagging, comments, friend requests, wall posts, all that… It made me feel like Facebook is a bit more open, but honestly, it isn't, yet. But in time… you'll see, they'll change.

Wordcamp and my choice to put the photos deliberately in Facebook (and only later on Flickr) thought me another lesson in the power of social networks in the world, not only that, I think every business today, every business, should think how to elevete itself using social networks and establishing a full time social presence on the web. More about that in the future, or you can contact me directly.

links about Wordcamp:
Gili Taguri- Happy Birthday (Hebrew)
Ira Abramov- live blogging from Wordcamp 2008 (Hebrew)
Oren Todoros aka SEOVice with a cool video from Wordcamp and some use of my photos (English)
Raanan Bar-Cohen- with his presentation about Wordpress (English)
Wordpress Garage- about the Wordpress Camp (English)
Compucall- a presentation about SEO in Wordpress (English)
Ring of Blogs- about the Gravatar enabled badges (passport photos in the nametags)

Please visit my photos on Facebook: all Wordcamp photos are licensed creative commons
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