myface & spacebook

i have been using both myspace and facebook for years, so i have quite a bit of experience with them.

i no longer using myspace for personal networking, but i find that it is still a very useful tool for my bands. myspace allows me to place my band's information, upcoming shows, and mp3s of our songs in an easy, public format that is easily viewable to anyone regardless of whether they have an account or not. i also find it to be the best way to contact bands whose members i don't know personally.

i used to have a personal myspace account, but like most users i eventually gave it up in favour of facebook, since i find it to be a much more advanced and useful tool. even though i don't have a lot of personal information listed on my profile, the very nature of facebook is so personal that i don't use my real name, but a pseudonym instead. i haven't found this to cause any problems, since anyone who knows who i am will be able to recognise me through my photos.

i find facebook to be both extremely useful, and a huge time-waster -- the one seems to inevitably lead to the other. i log in in order to check if any important information is waiting for me or to send an important message, and end up browsing my news feed and reading my friend's status updates, which are often good for a chuckle but far from important. i do this at least once a day. it keeps me informed of what my friends are up to, but it's not really so important as to justify the amount of time i spend on it.

wikinoise, pt. 2

the day after my last post, i was reading an online review of a tape that my friend kevin had released on his small independent cassette label:

http://weirdcanada.com/2010/04/review-north-of-america-12345678910/

the last sentence of the review is, "somebody update the wikipedia..."

so i did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_of_America

i even cited the review that had spurred the wiki-update as a reference.

wikinoise

wikipedia! my favourite!

i already knew that the article for KEN mode, one of my favourite canadian noise rock bands, was a few years out of date, so i updated it a little:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEN_mode

at first the amount of tags and codes in the edit page was overwhelming, but i figured out the format for creating references and links by looking at previous instances on the page. i have edited pages on wikipedia before, so i imagine i had it a little easier than a newcomer might.