Mudcat Profiles and Photos

Subject: Profiles and Photos
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:31 AM

Now Max and Pene have worked their magic and the Photos and Profiles are available in mono (after a period of duplication) it would be nice (for those of us who are nosy) if newer members put some of their details up. Use Quick Links drop-down menu to locate Members Photos and Profiles and follow the instructions. Have a browse and see how young, slim and good looking we all are *BG*.

RtS
(face made for radio)

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Scrump
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:34 AM

Strange, that option "Members Photos and Profiles" isn't shown on my Quick Links dropdown. Are you sure that's right?

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: MMario
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:38 AM

you may need to scroll down. It is between "Unanswered requests" and "Jump rope rhymes"

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:40 AM

It's actually Members Photos and Info (well I can't be expected to get it right first time!) after Unanswered Requests and before Jump Rope Rhymes.

RtS

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Deckman
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:59 AM

Yes, this pictures are O.K., but why can't they make me look better. Oh well, I guess that the web can only go so far! Bob(deckman)Nelsn

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Alba
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:06 AM

I'll get in touch with my Modelling agency and see if I am allowed to share my...well quite frankly...breathtaking beauty with you. ROFL

Nice pics Roger, I think you ALL look splendid.
My best to you, as always
Jude

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Leadfingers
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:15 AM

good One Roger ! We need to know who we are chatting to in MudChat , so ALL get you profiles and piccies in !!

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:22 AM

Did you know that you can upload your own photo? Oh yeah-- in the Auction, if you want to auction yourself off, that is. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:23 AM

Oops, hit submit too soon-- I thought, why not take a close-up of my ass and auction off a bit of the excess? :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:28 AM

I am looking for a piece of ass!
G.

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:57 AM

such a deal!

SHYLOCK
"What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?
You have among you many a purchased slave,
Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,
You use in abject and in slavish parts,
Because you bought them: shall I say to you,
Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds
Be made as soft as yours and let their palates
Be season'd with such viands? You will answer
'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:
The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,
Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it."

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:22 AM

Which part of the ass are looking for, Giok? Hindquarters? Head? Hooves? I can probably provide it if you give Jacqui and me enough time.

At the moment I have an abundance of horses' asses - any interest?
SINS

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:27 AM

aND i THOUGHT HE WANTED MINE. *SOB*

Damn Capslock!

~S~

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Scrump
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM

Doh! Found it. Sorry RtS - I wasn't being pedantic, I just didn't see it!

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: reggie miles
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:11 PM

This subject is something I tried to get an answer for quite some time ago. I also asked why I wasn't able to create a profile and make my profile appear among the others. I never received an answer and assumed that, with all the attention that operating such a site surely must require, my request was low on the list. Perhaps I sent my question to the wrong authority. Between the glitches and the upgrades I suppose it could have got lost in the cyber space equivilent of the Twilight Zone.

So, is it now possible for members to create or update their own profiles? Or must we send hard copies to those who would handle such matters?

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Pilgrim
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:15 PM

Was just wondering the same thing reggie. It looks like you have to
e-mail off a hard copy, andf if you have an URL to your photos
then they can be uploade for you. I would stand corrected though.
The members / photos header opens up another bit with this on if you
click it. Bloomin computers....

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: GEST
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:34 PM

Golly, gee-whiz.... I look so young. ~grin~

Has someone been enhancing the photos when they archive them, or perhaps mine has just been up there too many years, eh? :-)

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 01:19 PM

And maybe some of us, uh, "old timers" finally getting around to posting a profile. (Have to search through available photos to see which makes me look most goddess-like.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 01:36 PM

Once again, we run into another opportunity for misunderstanding because Mudcat and most of its features PREDATE the other forums that are so commonly used in today's internet culture.

On most forums these days, the user sets up what is called a profile-- it's usually a series of boxes to fill in. It's often made up from your membership sign-up form, and you choose whether to let those details show or not show. At Mudcat, though, a profile is a page you write that describes you and your music, kind of like a section in a press kit. Most of the exisiting profiles are from professionally gigging musicnas and they include a link to their website for sound samples, etc.

At most forums today, you can choose an image to appear next to your posts (avatar) that you think shows the image you want the world to associate with your personality. We have here, instead, Mudcat Photos. These which were first intended for the purpose of being able to recognize fellow Catters at festivals, especially before the advent of easily-used photo and email programs to send your pix out to potential festival-goers to hook up. Now we have a ton of photos that I think spring from the desire to share ourselves in community, putting faces to posts.

Remember, when Mudcat was created, almost NO ONE had their own personal website and there was no "MySpace." (There was ICQ and a need to post ICQ-identifiers.) No FlickR. No MSN Groups or Yahoo Groups. Nowadays we have all those, PLUS it is both easy and cheap to make a personal website.

Mudcat made these resources available when Mudcat was often the only affordable (free) place to publicize yourself as a musician. Now, of course, we have quite a few more than that, from anyone who cares to submit one for whatever reason.

So when we say nowwadays that we want a profile-- if you want a MUDCAT profile, all you need to do is LOOK AT the existing ones. Then create what you want yours to be, and email it all to Pene Azul-- just like it indicates in the FAQ:

Subject: RE: Mudcat FAQ - Newcomer's Guide
From: Joe Offer - PM
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 01:21 PM

... Our member photos and information are available only to registered Mudcatters - you can send photos and get added to the e-mail list by contacting our Tech Guru, Pene Azul, [e-mail]
Jeff can also help you set up a profile.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Little Robyn
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 01:52 PM

But the 'events' photos haven't been updated since May 2005.
I sent some pics of British Mudcatters visiting NZ Mudcatters at the Auckland Folk Festival a year ago and they're not there yet.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: MMario
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 01:56 PM

There was a moritorium on adding event photos and such until they got the duplicate display problem fixed - and "life" happened to Pene as well.

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 03:22 PM

During the moratorium, FlickR really took off. I dunno if that will remain a free, permanent source for posting photo albums-- I've seen a lot of "free" stuff come and go in the last several years of explosive internet development. Once a "free" service gets you hooked, as I think most folks know, eventually along comes someone's idea of a ready-made income stream. (Remember when cable TV was going to be free, and commercial-free as well?)

But I recall Max saying, about song lyrics, that Mudcat would still be here when other sites have come and gone.

Mudcat "Event" photos also used to be fairly sparse around here, till affordable (cheap) digital photography coincided with FSGW Getaway really taking off among Catters. Now, the photo section is less about finding one another at festivals and more of a photo-album of good memories for those who attended (and drooling opportunities for those who missed them)... . I have NO idea what Mudcat is willing to maintain for the future, in terms of photo albums. Putting photos up is easy, and so is making a page to put them ON, but storage space for pix can get kinda crowded and expensive to pay for if you want GOOD quality pix of a decent size as we seem to enjoy hereabouts.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 03:42 PM

That's real good news! I've really missed that feature. Now Leadfingers and I can start hounding people again to post their photos!

Jerry

Subject: RE: Profiles and Photos
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 03:46 PM

Maybe I need to update those OLD photos with the ones where my halo aura shows!........

oh, wait...that's just a ceiling fixture at Camp Ramblewood..

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:16 PM

Deckman, you can go visit my photo section and find a photo of yourself there as well. I was careful in choosing that one because you'd had a couple of recent surgeries and dental work. We didn't want you to look like a Mr. Potatohead, various pieces lying there waiting to be assembled! (hahaha!) On that photo page I aim for as few of me as possible and good photos of others.

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: GUEST,Fidjit
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 06:11 AM

Can't get in just now as my computer is on the blink and I'm at the library one.

I've been trying too get my fisog on there for a long time but never get an answer from Joe and company.

Let me know if you see it.

Chas

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: GUEST,Fidjit
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 06:12 AM

I'm listed in the folk musicians list though.
Go there and you'll see my website and all the guff.

Chas

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: Black Diamond
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 09:51 AM

emmmmmmmmm.. scuse me anyone..... further to reading this thread, I sent my piccies and short profile off about 3 weeks ago via email, and theres still nothing in Members Profiles .... is there anyone there??????
BD

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 10:01 AM

Pene posts that stuff on an "as he has time" basis; he is a volunteer with a life outside of mudcat.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: Black Diamond
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 10:18 AM

oh sorry didnt know that
BD

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: Black Diamond
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 10:20 AM

I know its difficult to get the right ethos from words, but it was meant humerously - perhaps I should have put in a :-)
no offence meant
BD

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 10:23 AM

non fa niente --

Subject: RE: Mudcat Profiles and Photos
From: Fidjit
Date: 02 Feb 07 - 12:04 PM

Got a pm from joe that for personal reasons one should wait, at least til the middle of Febuary.

Chas