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Turning Instagram into a Radically Unfiltered Travel Guide
- usmannk 10y agoNon mobile: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/turning-instagram-into-a-radically-unfiltered-travel-guide.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/turning-instagram...
- dpflan 10y agoThanks! I meant to edit the URL, but I forgot. X_x
- dageshi 10y agoerm, are the images going insane for anyone else on that page? example https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/28/magazine/28ontech2/28ontech2-master675-v2.gif https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/28/magazine/28ontech... has what looks like weird barcode effects animating in and out?
- robgough 10y agoYeah, that's super weird. I'm assuming not deliberate. Safari 9.1.2 on OS X 10.11.6
- dageshi 10y agoWin 7, tried in latest Chrome and Firefox, thought it might be a graphics driver issue, but I'm assuming not if it's across OS X as well
- jcater 10y agoThe captions mention "Photo Illustration by ..." with a credit to the source photography, so this actually looks intentional. It's very jarring and distracting.
- telekid 10y agoDefinitely deliberate. Captions say "Photo Illustration."
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- TeMPOraL 10y agoWin10, Chrome. Same effect here. Weird, but cool.
- tedmiston 10y agoIncredibly distracting and visually painful. I had to scroll them just out of view to read the article. I'm surprised the NYT would do this intentionally.
- psychologistt 10y agoNoticed the floating 'subscribe' bar. Does anyone really subscribe to read news sites online? Could see more and more of these paywalls on news sites lately.
- btbuildem 10y agoWow this could use a tl;dr .. Scanned through but didn't come across anything of substance. Is there a takeaway to this?
- subdane 10y agotl;dr Location-based photofeeds are like surveillance cameras and give you a taste of a destination in real-time to help you make a decision.
- tedmiston 10y agoMany of the most popular accounts and aggregators will post "latergrams" and since the most popular photos are featured at the top, one should consider that the feed is realtime relative to when users post but not necessarily realtime relative to when photos were taken. For example, in a big city like NYC you'll see shots posted with snow even in the middle of summer.
- pxue 10y agoyes. and platforms like Hootsuite lets you easily queue up and post them at a pre-scheduled time. my thought is. is there an interest for hyperlocal/true realtime instagram clone. so people can really discover what's around them
- tedmiston 10y agoI wonder if Instagram preserves the metadata for capture time, etc on posted images.
- dpflan 10y agoThe TLDR created as a reply to this is good, but perhaps the article highlights the need for an service that integrates the app siloed data into a coherent experience rather than shuffling through apps.
- wccrawford 10y ago
- tuna-piano 10y agoWow, like others, I skimmed this and had no idea what the author was trying to say. So I skimmed a bit more carefully, and still don't understand what the point of the article is - very frustrating. But I did learn something new: Instagram has pages that show the pictures tagged at certain locations. For example, the article references Goree Island, a place with a terrible history. Here is the instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/745847284/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/745847284/ The volume of pictures is high (20+ a day for well known locations), and it is super cool for me to see pictures at these places every day. Just a random assortment of places and their recent pictures: Willis / Sears Tower, Chicago: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/263485600/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/263485600/ Tianmen Sauare, Beijing: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/215668553/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/215668553/ Pyongyang, North Korea: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/246148050/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/246148050/ Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/866213/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/866213/ Salento, Colombia: https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/215264674/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/215264674/
- aembleton 10y agoHow do you search for a location?
- niftich 10y agoYou can through the API: https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/locations/ https://www.instagram.com/developer/endpoints/locations/ You pass in a lat and a long and it returns all locations within 500 meters by default. The radius is customizable but can't go beyond 750 meters. Or you can pass in a Facebook Place ID instead [1] although most of the interesting info about Facebook 'Places' is in a cross-referenced thing called a 'Location' [2] [1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/place/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/pla... [2] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/location/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/loc...
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- personlurking 10y agoIn reference to the Green Book, which I just had learned about last week, the US had so-called "sundown towns" [1] where it was ill-advised for people of color to be out after sundown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
- tedmiston 10y agoSundown towns to some degree still exist. Maybe not so much that they are unsafe after dark, but that they're still 95+% white and intolerance still exists. Waverly, OH is one example — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly,_Ohio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly,_Ohio
- SixSigma 10y agoor google maps
- pmlnr 10y agoI used to find interesting spots by browsing the pictures at a certain location on the old Google Maps; I've used Flickr for this as well. However: for real stories, I'm still visiting WordPress.com and read the entries there.
- tedmiston 10y agoI think this works well on Google Maps because you pan around and find nearby towns you might not have heard of.
- tedmiston 10y ago@dang - Can we please change the url from mobile to desktop? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/turning-instagram-into-a-radically-unfiltered-travel-guide.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/turning-instagram...
- jedberg 10y agoActually, I liked that it linked to mobile -- no paywall on mobile it seems.
- tedmiston 10y agoThe paywall being shown varies, and you can generally get around it by clicking the web link at the top.
- jedberg 10y agoI know how to get around the paywall but it's still a pain and a lot easier when it doesn't show up, and it may vary, but for me, it shows up 100% of the time on desktop and 0% of the time on mobile.
- dang 10y agoYes. I did that because it's standard practice to use canonical URLs here, but if there really is a significant difference in paywalls, maybe we shouldn't. Man I wish this weren't so complicated.
- ape4 10y agoI am planning a trip. So this is interesting to me. The photos for my destination are telling me something but I'm not sure what. There's hardly any text.
- mxuribe 10y agoSo the point is that one can use the more visually-centric social media platforms to do a bit of R&D prior to travelling; that's cool, good idea. I especially like the note on: "This approach also affords a window into cultural insights I might not get otherwise. The year before, in Morocco, a group of friends and I were unsure how best to dress when walking around a small town outside Tangier — we wanted to be especially respectful because we were visiting during Ramadan — so we browsed local Instagram posts until we had a sense of what was appropriate..." I think I'll try this for my next travel.
- pc86 10y agoThe correct answer is to dress as you would dress any other day in any other approximate location. Why should someone else's beliefs influence their behavior to such an extent?
- SamBam 10y agoYou have every right to dress however you want. However, if you wear shorts, t-shirt and Tevas in a marketplace in Morocco, they will think of you as a clueless tourist, and treat you accordingly. (And if you wear a burka in France they will fine you and tell you to take it off.) Having a sense of what the locals wear shows respect. I wouldn't walk into the Vatican without a shirt on, or an Amish farm wearing short-shorts.
- tedmiston 10y agoIn conservative cultures, especially for females, it can be much safer to dress to the local dress code, even if it that is different from your personal beliefs.
- state 10y agoI have no idea what this article is trying to get across, but I can share one thing I use Instagram location search for: surf conditions. There are a few spots (that will remain nameless) I like to surf that are kinda in the middle of nowhere. Wind forecasts for them are usually off, and it's a big commitment to drive there myself just to find it ripped up by the wind. These spots are, however, really popular for tourists driving down the coast. It's really easy to search Instagram, find a bunch of selfies in front of the ocean, and know what the wind was doing ~30m ago.
- dpflan 10y agoThat's cool, and that is what the article is trying to get across - using Instagram (and other sources) to assess the (near current) state of a location. A dedicated webcam or drone could be useful here too (or even errant Pokemon Go players with GoPros? :))
- state 10y agoFor most well known spots there's http://surfline.com http://surfline.com. Drones is an interesting idea. I suppose we're not quite there yet.
- tedmiston 10y agoIt would be interesting to see a "realtime" view of all of those spots on one page.
- tedmiston 10y ago> What I see there is wildly unfiltered Actually, what you see there is heavily filtered.
- tedmiston 10y agoI recently found the strange little town of Marfa, TX on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/214761100/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/214761100/