Ratz File : 05/09/jwi – along came a spider
Continuing my works on John W. Ishii’s website, I began to encounter the world of algorithms (basically math), text and robots. Many a time I guess you will hear technical people talk about META TAGS, KEYWORDS, SEO, LINK SATURATION and stuff that might boggle the mind. Actually, I am BOGGLED. What the hell are those things? A layman would most probably gawk at a sample code illustrated below;
“<title><?php t0l19r24_title( ‘-’, true, ‘right’ ); echo t0l19r24_specialchars( get_bloginfo(’name’), 1 ); ?></title><meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”<?php bloginfo(’html_type’) ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(’charset’) ?>” /> <meta name=”description” content=”John W. Ishii <?php bloginfo(’description’) ?>” /><?php if(is_search()) { ?><meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” /><?php }?>”
The internet has since progressed from it’s infancy days of just using one or two very straight forward methods for inclusion into their search engines. This time round they have started to use ALGORITHMS to decipher your website, with SITEMAPS, WEBSITE VERIFICATION, ANALYSTICS, etc …. sheesh … couldn’t someone just come out with a simpler system of getting things done?
And this META thing for the ROBOTS…. or SPIDERS …. it seems to me that its becoming something like this …..
ALGORITHMS, ALGORITHMS again … I finally get to meet the online SPIDERS (or Robots) up close and personal!! Argh!! What’s all the fuss about asking the spider to FOLLOW or NOT TO FOLLOW. In fact, it looks to us that the spider normally does not do as it’s told!! Ha ha ha ha …… Good luck to us…. and now let the FIGHT BEGIN!!! Coding begins again …..
Ratz File : 05/09/jwi – a photographers calling online
Greetings. If you are reading this, then you should believe I’m starting at experiment #01 …. But not! I’m starting at experiment #03, because this is not my first project … I’ve been around, doing consultancy works, projects, events, managing and of course scurrying here and there, like ratz and mice do ….
I met John W. Ishii one fine sunny day, while I was basking in the sun looking for food, and so he caught me, sat me down at a table with bottomless STARBUCKS coffee …. and so the merry me drank and drank, and we chatted about stuff not related to cameras, lenses or photography. How he put up with the tremendous amount of squeaking and preening of whiskers, well, it’s beyond me for now ….
Anyway, it must have been because of all the coffee and me not talking about photography (cause he is a photojournalist and professional photographer… also, ratz don’t talk, so there …) that he threw us the challenge of doing something online …. and the result is this complex equation as illustrated below …..
Thrilled. I was truely thrilled with the end result …. PET SHOP BOYS! In fact I loved it … cause I swore a life long allegience to PET SHOP BOYS!!! In fact Pet Shop Boys + The Lab Ratz … a very interesting combination, but we are also aware there is a musical group called The Lab Ratz too …. but that’s another story ….. NEIL!! CHRIS!! Love your style and lyrics!
So what do you get when you put a photojournalist and me together? What funny equation will that be? We will illustrate ……
What you really get is BANKSY …. the famous and celebrated graffiti artist, whose works of art is highly sought after, and if you realized, we are actually talking about BRITISH Artist’s here … when John is an AMERICAN …. hoo! hoo! In fact there is a really great social message in much of BANKSY’s works and we will adopt a similar vein for this project., in telling John’s photos as a photojournalist. We will also begin to chronicle our project works on John’s online presence ….. you can view our #03 Experiment at http://johnwishii.com.
