This morning as I threw up my arms and exclaimed, "Busy is here! It's a dream! It's like Steve Jobs has returned from the grave!"
I realized that my mother and daughter had no idea what I was talking about. I struggled to explain it, then it hit me: Busy and Steemit are different train companies that use the same tracks and the same magic coal. The tracks represent the blockchain and the magic coal is STEEM. Then I was able to explain it quite easily to them. My mom understood! It was one of those EUREKA! moments.
Let's Explore this in more depth.
Dan is the engineer who created both the train tracks and the magic coal which powers both trains.
Dan worked tirelessly for years trying to figure out how to build both the train tracks and the magic coal. The recipe for the coal took more than three years to make, and he's still doing adjustments to the recipe. Dan wants a perfect recipe, but Dan is not a magician. He's an engineer.
The Steemit train conductor is Ned who oversees all the operations of the Steemit train.
One day Ned found a piece of Dan's magic coal and fell instantly in love. He had never seen such a magical, beautiful piece of magic coal before. The magic coal changed his life and he decided to help bring it to others. With Dan's help, he manufactured the Steemit train company and decided he would be the conductor.
Ned's job turned out to be rough because some of the Steemit train passengers were rowdy, loud and unmanageable. But there were also many good passengers who started to create their own food carts on the Steemit train. These food cart specialists have been able to feed a lot of the hungry passengers. The specialists also helped others start up their own food carts using the magic coal.
One day a group of Steemit train passengers decided to make their own train company because the Steemit seats were a little uncomfortable.
They were happy with the tracks and the magic coal, but they wanted their train to be a different color and a different shape. They also wanted different curtains and more modern, comfortable furniture. Their ideas were born and developed while riding on the Steemit train. One day, their ideas grew so big that they needed more space than the train would provide. On this day, this group got off the Steemit train and began to build out their plans to make a different train company. They named their train company, Busy.org. Their train ran on the same tracks as the Steemit train and used the same magic coal.
As time went on, more and more people began riding on the Steemit and Busy trains. This resulted in more magic coal being both produced and consumed. I bet you're wondering why Dan's coal is magic. It's magic because it is not composed of carbon material. It's clean because it's digital. And it's always renewable because it's created inside the deepest, most imaginative part of our minds. It's the part of us that's free to dream of worlds that do not yet exist, but that are possible in the future.
.......to be continued......
(this is my first Busy post and I have to say, I think I'm in love.....)
We need.........A Monorail!
That's more of a Shelbyville idea...
What would be the Shelbyville to our Springfield? Minds? 8app?
you on busy right now? Does everything copy over to Steemit?
I believe so. It's just another way to post. Lacking in some features, but image upload is a killer.
Busy said I had 5 messages from you, but couldn't see them
i think replies to chat?
HQ post ? Look no further, you just find it.
That is simple and concise.
thanks for commenting....are you on Busy or Steemit?
I love this analogy! Way better than mine 😭😢.
Lol. I love this!!!
thanks!!!! Are you on busy right now? Or Steemit? This is my first time on Busy, and I think it's going to kill facebook.
I'm on Steemit. Can't seem to find 'comments' and 'replies' on Busy so I only use Busy to write my posts. Maybe because i'm on mobile though.
And I check it when I need to see something beautiful again.
what was your analogy?
https://steemit.com/story/@fisteganos/it-s-time-to-get-busy
More like my first thoughts
That's a beautiful analogy @stellabelle, and great graphics too. If you come over to stemmit I wonder if you could edit the 2 train pics at the top to show different trains (steemit and busy), as you did below.
Nice work! I have yet to go to busy, going there now to check it out...
The two train pics are a mistake! There's no way that I've found so far to edit a published post in Busy.....I may have to go to Steemit to do that.....
Because there is no way for that yet.
Writing this on steemit.com. How does busy know who I am to log me in? Why did my comments disappear?
Don't misunderstand, I know it's early for busy.org, and there will be bugs and functionality that is not yet implemented. My questions are just to understand. I like what you've done, very much. I actually wrote about the things I liked in my response to @stellabelle on busy.org, but that original response to her is lost.
@busy.org developed an open-source solution for any third party who wants to build an app on Steem, its name is SteemConnect. It does the authentication process of the users and give access to the public profile information.
Comments are disappearing when you haven't gave Busy (through SteemConnect) the necessary permissions (e.g. for posting).
Oh I see. Just so you know, I was not prompted for credentials (maybe was asked for an account name some time ago, but definitely not within the last 1 to 2 weeks). It would be nice to have a check to provide them when submitting the comment (or article) rather than loosing the work of entering the text. It's a test case to note for future revisions of busy.
that is odd. i had to log in normally...
ah, ok thanks.
I writing this on steemit.com. I responded to your reply on busy.org which appeared to be accepted, showing up as slightly indented with a smaller diameter icon. I like the idea of the icon reducing size, the indentation not so much. Unfortunately the original response to your reply is lost to the ether. I also clicked the "Add Comment" button in busy.org and posted the following, which seemed to be accepted but doesn't appear here in steemit.com. Had I not saved it in my cut buffer it too would have been lost. Here is that followup comment:
I really like the story a LOT so far and can't wait for part 2 to come out now! All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
hmmm.....part 2. Let's see, what should it be? What would you like me to write about?
To use your words: ".......to be continued...... (this is my first Busy post and I have to say, I think I'm in love.....)" I am now expecting less than deeply hoping to read about your experience relating to the history of Steemit and its relatives. Hey, maybe you could do a prequel to this story and include Bitcoins as the first ancestor's being? ;) I really enjoyed you graphic art in there, it had such a light-heartedness to it and that was greatly enjoyed on this end.
Have a great day, keep your smile and thriving, Steem on and stay posted for my Epic Eric post, another one, coming today! Namaste :)
Pretty accurate. Yet it is a bit cooler than trains because Ned and Dan helped Busy.org too. So unlike trains where it is competition, in the steem based infrastructure the competition still benefits everyone.
I described it to my family like the blockchain is signal for televisions, and that steemit is one television manufacturer, and busy.org is another but they both tune into the same signal. :)
I bet we could come up with some more. :)
Nice post... resteemed
I am not using Busy still. But what I believe is that it will become the standard way of interacting with the Steem blockchain.
As far as I know, Ned and Dan created Steem and after that Steemit in order to allow people to actually interact with the Steem network. But Steemit is just a way of interacting with it. Created because there must be a way to do anything with Steem.
It works, but it is not optimal.
Busy, again, as far as I know, is a solution crafted for the interaction with Steem. They only have to upset about that and leave all the other to Dan and Ned.
Yes, they needed an example of an application running on top of the steem blockchain. That is exactly why steemit was created.
I believe BUSY will become ONE of the defacto standards. Yet if this keeps going there could be a lot of different types of things. Hopefully all interconnected somehow.
Both of them are subsidiary of the same imaginary corporation, Steem.
i couldn't find any photos to use for the busy team.....maybe you wouldn't want me to though.....considering what I did.....
thanks......have you tried out Busy?
I'm logged into it on another tab. I poked around in it last night when I realized it was live. I dragged it over onto my 4K monitor.... went NOPE and then dragged it back to this one. It still doesn't really take advantage of 4K resolutions, but it does look nice. That is also not really busy's fault.
I spend most of my day with my head turned to the side staring at my smaller monitor, because all of that empty space on my primary one drives me batty.
:)
The photos are the best! Let us build train companies!
yes, more and more!!!
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I cannot figure out how to edit my published post in Busy! If anyone has the answer, please let me know. That double train photo was not in my post........originally.
Wundervoll beschrieben..... vielen Dank!... up and resteemed*
danke schoen!
🤓
Selective quotes:
This morning as I threw up... magic coal ... Ned found a piece of... magic coal and fell instantly in love. He had never seen such a magical, beautiful piece of magic coal before. The magic coal changed his life and he decided to help bring it to others... helped others start up their own food carts using the magic coal... As time went on... resulted in more magic coal being both produced and consumed... And it's always renewable because it's created inside the deepest...
To Be Continued...
thanks! I think writing in Busy activated a part of my mind that was dormant....
No it must be my mind reading the fun part selectively :D
yes, your mind is doing funny things.
HQ content.
danke, merci, thank you very much, arigatoo
I am Norwegian, you can say "Takk skal du har"
Takk skal du har
Excellent lol!
I am just having a look at "Busy", now, really cool, I love the big picture format.
Take a day or so to get used to it. I will probably have both Busy and Steemit open at the same time at first.
Hey great analogy Stella. Simplifying concepts is an art form itself. Well I think so at least.
jag älskar denna thanks
you're welcome, not sure what language that is, but my guess is Swedish?
Fabulous analogy! I haven't checked out Busy yet, but its on my To Do list. :-)
OMG. You're going to die. There's a chat feature that lets you talk to whoever you want, either in private or on a general chat board. This has made all the difference. RIP Steemit Chat.
I'm only afraid of promo spams on those public channels. Steemit Chat has moderation option, but for e.g. the last two posts on
# streemianare non-relevant self-promotions. I don't even read# generalsince weeks because of that. :/well, i guess the cool channels will emerge organically where the winners hang out. Then the spammers will self-destruct just like @asshole did. I think it's magnficent. I could be your biggest fan right now.......I'll run your official Twitter account for free if you need someone to do that. I'm on social media like 17 hours per day...
To make it clear, I'm not part of the Busy team. I was an alpha tester (and now a beta), that's why I write passionately about it.
You could contact with the team on the Steemit Chat / # busy, or send an email to them. They are friendly guys. :)
ok, thanks.
Fear not! The Steemians will shut down the self-promo stuff by gently nudging.........
Indeed, I've almost forgotten that Steemians have the same tools as @asshole. ;)
I never made it to steemit chat but maybe I'll hit you up on busy chat! :-)
it's built in.
Ah, now I get it! All aboard the busy express. I think I might be in love also. What is posted on busy is posted on steemit toooooo. And bookmarks, and drafts, and three decimals, and . . .
oh i know!!!!!!!! The chat! I'm in love with the chat feature. I always despised going over to steemit chat...now I don't have to!
Fabulous ! Loved the story , and the photos were awesome ! 👍😉
Great analogy and a compelling story.
Unfortunate choice of train for your second (third) picture though. That green train looks remarkably like one of the Southern Rail trains in the UK; the company is currently frequently in the news and despised by many of the commuters living in the South of England due to their poor track record and frequently striking staff...
perhaps a different photo is in order?
On face value, it's a cool picture and probably on a very proportion of the readers will even make the connection.
It's funny in an ironic way - depends what angle you're going for 😊
That's a creative way to explain it!
It's how my brain works...........
Upvoted and resteemed. Great post!
thanks!
:) No matter where the photo of Ned is appearing: he is always perfect.
And... This time I read the text, then I upvoted it and, finally I am enjoying the pictures.
Thank you for all the content you are providing in Steemit.
Ned has a perfectly symmetrical face. He could be a GQ model.
Nothing else to add :)
you are welcome....I am a professional after all....MUWAHHHHHHH
Good analogy.
This was brilliant, love it
thanks for your comment! I feel better already this morning....instead of my usual gloomy self.
I didn't realise Dan looked so ripped! He must be hitting the gym a lot!
Dan is a demi-god.
just epic! Love the writing :)
if you have photos for me to cook up, let me know!
Never mind 79-year-old mom, that made it easier for me! Thanks - Upvoted and resteemed :)
glad you liked it! How did you like the buff Dan?
So your busy post shows up on Steemit as well ?