Posted in Opinion, Process, Travel on Jul 14th, 2011 15 Comments »
I’ve been traveling a lot for over twenty years, both domestic and international. Repeat business travel gets old and those of us who have and still do do it know that flow is the best way through. I have over a million air miles on a single airline plus plenty on others. Early on post [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Process on Jun 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
I can rationalize either but I’m embedding this excellent info-graphic so you can ponder this important question. [via Greg Newman and Engineering Degree]
Posted in Opinion, Photographers, Process, Video on Jun 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Jim Richardson is a well known and beloved National Geographic photographer. The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library did this interview. A few Richardson gems from the interview: “The world is a very rich place.” “There are commonalities in human life.” “Think about taking useful pictures instead of good pictures.” “Use your camera to explore.” [...]
Posted in Opinion, Politics on Jun 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Grading Schools: How to Determine the ‘Good’ From the ‘Bad’? The PBS NewsHour’s John Merrow and his production team did an excellent job of tackling this tough issue. For anyone attempting to figure out how we dig out of our national literacy problem, this is worth watching.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photo Editing Software, Photojournalism, Studio Photography on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Supermodel’s Photoshop Horror A former Sports Illustrated cover model is suing an Estee Lauder company for allegedly damaging her career with a fake promo using a Photoshopped picture of her. The suit is the latest wrinkle in the global phenomenon of photo retouching. An interesting example of this type of photo retouching is this Dove [...]
Posted in Ideas, Learning Disabilities, Opinion, Tools on Jun 2nd, 2011 2 Comments »
Despite Spell Check, Interest in Spelling Bees Is Way Up I always thought that a spell checker on a computer would affect spelling in a good way by showing us in real time the correct spelling of a word and maybe reinforcing that correct spelling. Many thought spell checkers would do so much thinking for [...]
Posted in Humor, Opinion, Social Software on May 30th, 2011 No Comments »
A new Facebook app is coming out that will remind users exactly what they were doing a year ago from that day. Nine times out of 10, the answer will be ‘wasting your time on Facebook.’ – Conan O’Brien Had to post this, it’s so right on the money. [via Political Irony]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Sites, Social Software on May 27th, 2011 No Comments »
Your photos and data on Flickr flickr is a popular online photo sharing community which millions of people the world over use. I’ve been using flickr to host images I embed in this site as well as as a community to meet and connect with other photographers since 2004. Flickr was one of the first [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Humor, Opinion, People, Video on May 25th, 2011 No Comments »
Colbert Report: Is it art? This is a fantastic piece with Colbert at his best. Colbert attempts to convince Steve Martin (a noted art collector) that a portrait of Colbert is “art.” In the process, he pulls out Frank Stella, Shepard Fairey, and Andres Serrano to help them figure it out. Hilarious. [via On Point]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Printing, Tech Stuff on May 23rd, 2011 19 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about upgrading the printing end of my workflow for years but I’ve had such great results with my older Canon Pixma Pro 9000 printers that I didn’t want to mess with a good thing. I find it interesting that many of my online photographer friends don’t print their work or if they [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Video on May 14th, 2011 No Comments »
For the past few years, Jim Lehrer who co-founded the PBS NewsHour with Robert MacNeil 35 years ago has been slowly but surely stepping back and having other members of the NewsHour team take his place as anchor. MacNeil left the program in a similar fashion many years ago but still helps produce it and [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Opinion, Social Software on Apr 27th, 2011 8 Comments »
Jason Kottke wrote a thoughtful essay: How to beat Apple. I highly recommend reading it, every point is simply and clearly made, and true. 1. Apple doesn’t do social well 2. Apple doesn’t do cloud well 3. iTunes is bloated and showing signs of age 4. Apple doesn’t pay close attention to products that Steve [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Apr 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Blogging is no longer a technology Andrew Anker on the evolution of blog content management systems and personal publishing online. This short piece is worth reading. I’ve always thought of Twitter and Facebook as gateway drugs to blogging — a great way to learn about your voice but ultimately not the best place to realize [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, Opinion, Politics on Apr 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Apple and Intel stop using conflict minerals More on conflict minerals. I know it’s hip to dump on Apple for their use of “slave labor” over at the Foxconn plant in China but I do think they’re making an attempt to use their new global power to push for good. It’s incremental but it’s something.
Posted in Apple, iPad, Learning Disabilities, Opinion, Process, Video on Apr 3rd, 2011 6 Comments »
This is music to my ears. I’ve been saying that good technology should fall into the background for over thirty years. This message was the foundation of my entire technology and education consulting career. The simpler the tool, the more it will get used. The more it gets used, the faster it will fall into [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Opinion, Process, Reading, Social Software on Mar 20th, 2011 13 Comments »
For those who don’t know it: The New York Times is going to be charging users of its online content and their pay scheme is complex and expensive. Here are the details: A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions I saw a tweet from The New York Times this morning and I followed it. [...]
Posted in Ideas, Learning Disabilities, Movies, Opinion, Reading on Mar 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Losing Parental Control: Reducing the Struggle – excerpt from Losing Control, Finding Serenity The Boingboing post is an excerpt from the book Losing Control Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us And How to Let It Go by Daniel A. Miller. Amazing to find this on Boingboing the same day I post my [...]
Posted in Events, Ideas, Opinion, Places on Mar 15th, 2011 8 Comments »
I have lots of things I’d like to post on this site but I find pretty much everything including links to images of the devastation in Japan somehow distasteful at this time. What’s going on in Japan is overwhelming to me as I sit here in a warm house in rural Connecticut. In the face [...]
John Gruber’s take on the iPad2 introduction: The Chair. Good iPad apps can make the iPad feel not like a device running an app, but like an object that is the app. This is right on the money and is achieved by having a device that one holds in one’s hands, by having apps run [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Politics, Travel, Video on Feb 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Now, if American CEOs did this, members of Congress did this, President Obama did this, we might be able to stomach asking working people for so many concessions to make things right. The least American CEOs could do is what Steve Jobs at Apple does: take $1 in salary and get the rest in stock [...]
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