Kim Bach . Org

As you might have noticed, I’ve recently begun using “Storify”, and I like it a lot.

From the About page on Storify.com

Storify helps making sense of what people post on social media. Our users curate the most important voices and turn them into stories

This is my “Storify”-profile

A common use case would be to “Storify” all tweets tagged with a specific tag, or all tweets from a given user, creating a macro blogentry out of micro blogentires in a blink of an eye.

I’d like to describe another use case, which is how to enhance an article, by extending it using” Storify”.

This week VisitCopenhagen published a nice article about the famous philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen, it was great, but as always, they only link to articles within their own portal, I felt that “something” was missing”.

This is the article on Søren Kierkegaard that VisitCopehagen has on their website. I’d like to “Storify” it by adding more “stories”, or what I’d like to call that micro-blog entries, to the article.

Søren Kierkegaard Storify

I used “Storify” for iPad, which is great, so I just selected the Globe icon and entered the URL for the Wikipedia article, now I could add the article.

Here’s a screenshot after I’ve added links to both the VisitCopenhagen and Wikipedia articles

I added links to Foursquare too, as well as my own comments.

I think this resulted in a nice macro-blog article, that adds significant value to the article from VisitCopenhagen, but I’d let you be the judge on that.

For convenience nothing really beats “Storify”, my main concern is that you buy into their file-format.

You can choose to save your story to your blog though, and it looks like Storify exports everything to HTML.

This was just one example of a workflow that enhances articles written by others, another example is knowledge sharing, a good example of that would be my article on #postPC, my experiences trying to replace my laptop with an iPad and a mobile.

Wishlist and a warning

The only thing I really miss with “Storify”, is the ability to collaborate on stories online, and I discovered a major problem with this. Since “Storify” doesn’t really support collaboration, I experienced that I, after finishing editing a story on my Mac lost that version because I had the story open on the iPad too, so auto-save replaced my final copy.

Best practice is not to leave a story open in the iPad editor, by always selecting “My Stories” before editing on another computer.

“Storify” is fun and makes it easier to create blog-posts, which is good, I’m not sure if the readers agree 4.5/5 stars!

Okay Houston

…
The final chapter, prophetic, poetic
When I’m done, this calls for anesthetic
Get to, step to, let an MC
Come in effect with Kimboy B

A wanna be, renaissance, old skool sucker
Who barks at time, and always clutter
A feat, a dream, a yes would be nice
Yeah, pass the mic

What time is time?
What time is time?
What time is time?
What time is time?

The New Jersey Turnpike? What a God forsaken place, I once tried to hitch a ride there, I was lucky, a bus arrived before anyone picked me up, then I found America in a yellow cab, he was black and suddenly I found myself on the backseat with his fly honey, an hour later I was a white gorilla in the mist from 5000 african-americans in an ice-hockey rink, they seemed a “little” suspicious, it was a nice night for a walk (and shitting your pants), oh well, found the train and felt safe when they called at Jamaica.

Thank you to Andreas Karker for the inspiration

… was the manner in which I greeted the clerk in the Indian Restaurant.
He was a young man, looking to be of Pakistani herritage.
To my surprise he asked, “Excuse me Sir, are you Muslim?”,
“But I thought you were?”,
“No Sir, I’m Christian”,
“But you have a co-worker that’s Muslim, don’t you?”,
“Oh yes Sir, he works during the daytime”.

When I recieved my meal, I thanked the clerk by holding my palms, vertically, together and bowing, he responded by saying “Namaste”…

…”Eid Mubarak!”

Number-sign from the street Gl. Køge Landevej number 404, part of a project proposed by Søren Johannessen of microformats.dk, to take a picture of all number-signs of a road for the official Internet error-codes 200-599 (Wikipedia: List of HTTP status codes).

I got all fired up by Søren’s geekish proposal, so when he suggested streets for me to hit, I went for it, and had not expected to run into any problems…I was wrong!

The first problem I ran into, is that there are huge gaps in the street numbers, meaning for instance, that Gl. Køge Landevej has a gap from number 198 to 220.

The second, and much more severe, problem I ran into was that, people on the street thought that it looked suspicious, and I guess I could have been more discrete, I already felt in my stomach that it was a wrong thing to do, before I was approached by two men that asked me what I was up to, and that their neighbourg had actually called the police.

I had a friendly talk with the people, and explained them exactly what I was doing. They felt that it was illegal, and that I should have asked every single household for a permission.

I think this highlights the problem geeks like me have, understanding that the world is not perfect, that people mistrust each other and the naivety I showed in undertaking this, I was just being a kid playing with “LEGO”, meaning no harm, but totally lacking common sense.

I will abandon this project, but as you can see, I snapped the number 404, the Internet error code for “not found” (Wikipedia: HTTP 404) I might pursue finding as many as possible of the 404 numbers, I think I can do that discretely.

According to Søren there’s a total of 133 streets with the number 404 in Denmark, 1 down, 132 to go

I dunno wot she got
I dunno wot she got
I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me
No telling where she learn the things she do to me
And I don’t know what she done wrong but I want to hurt her

(wanna) take it out on her
Take it out on her
Take it out on her
With my weapon

She’s so exacting that she tells me when I go wrong
She doesn’t value the attention she receives
She says I’m taking all the time but I’m not returning
(that’s right)

‘Do this’ but she won’t do that
Lying beside me like a parcel of fat
Hot love – cold sweat – feel her beneath me wanna crush her to death
She tries to justify the people who despise me
She puts her finger on things she knows will hurt
And I can’t defend myself till we turn the lights off then

I dunno wot she got – my weapon
My secret weapon

…maybe I should get a lotto-ticket, today’s jackpot is at a KEWL DKK 100 million… nah people that don’t play the lotto are boring people with no dreams…like…me

“So do you know why you counted the wrong amount” she asked, adding “it’s because you’re stressed! Get a cup of coffee or the like”. “I’ll use the simple solution…” I responded, after opening a random page, “what I need is ‘a real conversation’. This one, one I had earlier today and I’m expecting to have with my good friend Benjamin in a short while…have a nice day”