CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
I might well head along to PY this week. However, I'm not the greatest at remembering names, and wondered whether there would be interest in maintaining a "rogues gallery", so to speak - as in, somewhere that people post a photo of themselves so people can then recall names the next time PY comes around.
Or would people prefer to remain largely anonymous?
Try search top trumps
(I never figured out how to actually do one)
I make that... four identifiable from the top trumps topic (and who knows if anyone's had a haircut since then!)
WC stuck a few identifiables up on the active transport protest thread. Also previous PY threads sometimes get illustrations...
Fair number of us turned out for operation tombstone back in summer, pictures courtesy of chdot here. Unusually for a morning I was actually present and can be seen here third from the left holding the camera. Otherwise I'm not often spotted as I'm seldom riding around commuting times.
OK, cool. So what we have so far is a bunch of photos spread around various different threads / locations, which shows that some of us are happy to be identified. I think my next question is whether there is any interest in collating these together in a single location, to make it easy to find them, and also to make it easy for other people to add their details, if they so wish? Maybe that would be to continue one of the threads mentioned, or maybe we knock up some kind of simple web app to allow people to add their details?
Alternatively, there might not be enough interest in doing such a thing, of course.
It's the nature of CCE (and life) that some people are more keen on being 'public' than others.
Just turn up at PY and introduce yourself to people - using username or 'real' name.
Others will do the same. Hardly anyone remembers the name(s) of everyone they have met at PU (or elsewhere).
Easy way to find me, grinning like a loon, is to search for my most unusual bike on CCE. At some point there'll be a photo...
Alternatively Google "surname cycling Edinburgh" and see what appears.
The web is a data protection nightmare - welcome to the Global Village where everybody is known searchable to everyone else.
Robert
(Cryptic for no other reason than the entertainment value!)
I ought to update my Top Trump card as my spotability score has increased and my Copenhagenalismness score has plummeted. That said,
…any interest in collating these together in a single location, to make it easy to find them, and also to make it easy for other people to add their details…
There are any number of Google-based (or even Frappr-based!) maps with drawing pins signifying who's where and who's doing what. They all have a bunch of early adopters then a bunch of secondary adopters, and a few dog-on-a-string stragglers later on. After a year or two people take a dislike to telling the world where they live and what treasures they have, and delete or vagueify their details. And that's just the ones not hosted elsewhere on Flickr or FriendFace or Strava or Twitter or in a forum's sticky discussion.
PY is a bit more like 'the old days', where you waited each month for a newsletter or something, and went along to an event to meet other likeminded people. Part of the fun is finding out who turns up. No-one automatically knew about everyone else in advance.
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