Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Oct 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
30 Amazing photoblogs
Puja Parakh, Daily dose of imagery, and Mute are all in my feeds, either through flickr or their blogs but the others are mostly new to me. Nice, worth exploring.
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Oct 1st, 2008 No Comments »
NPR community
It’s about time they did this.
One of my favorite shows, On Point did this a little while ago and it’s been great for them, and for many of us who listen.
This is convergence at its best.
Posted in Ideas, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Sep 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com
A nice piece on Heather Champ, manager of the flickr online community.
[via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Sep 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Google Reveals Wireless Vision - Open Networks
“Google’s vision of tomorrow’s wireless network is in stark contrast to how wireless operators do business today, setting the two sides on a possible collision course. Earlier this week, the search giant filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office describing its vision of an open wireless network [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Sep 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Walt Mossberg gives us Google’s G1: First Impressions.
Google’s new G1 phone announced today is the first real competitor to the iPhone. Like Apple’s product, it’s a serious handheld computer with a powerful new operating system (called Android) and a clever touch-based user interface. Like the iPhone, it’s likely to be a major new platform for [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Social Software on Sep 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Vincent Laforet comments on a restructuring at Photoshelter: Photoshelter Collection Comes to a Premature End.
For those of you who may be unaware of the PhotoShelter Collection, this venture was a breath of (needed) fresh air in our industry. Their idea was to create one of the best high-quality photography collections out there - and to [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Sep 11th, 2008 No Comments »
David Pogue on New Gadget Sends and Receives E-Mail. That’s It.
Looks great to me. I don’t want it but I can think of many who will.
Posted in Photography, Social Software on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Alltop is an aggregator and one of their topics is Photography.
Most of the major photo sites are included in the collection and it’s a great way to scan headlines without actually visiting all the sites, very much like a newsreader except they do the aggregation for you. Very useful, I’ll be scanning it often.
[via Dale [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Politics, Social Software, Video on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Barack Obama’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention
This is an excellent web presentation with three columns: video, transcript, and section jumps. Clicking on a section jump moves the transcript and the video to that place. Beautifully done. All important speeches need this treatment and they’ve given it to what I consider an even more important [...]
Posted in Humor, Social Software, Video on Aug 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Believe it or not, this tongue in cheek animation is well done and funny and right on the money.
Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?
This is a great observation (by both O’Reilly and Gruber) and I think we should avoid sites that overly self-promote by too much internal linking.
Now, I wonder how much I do this?
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Opinion, People, Photography, Social Software on Aug 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
Derek Powazek has an interesting post: Three Tales of Trolls which, for those of you who have not followed the evolution of this term, gives a nice back story on situations that are influencing its more modern meaning.
Troll (internet) on Wikipedia.
The Thomas Hawk - SF/MOMA incident is a fascinating situation in that it covers a [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Aug 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Sacramento Bee has a Big Picture knock off called The Frame.
Notice that unlike The Big Picture clicking on a single image just takes you to the picture on a blank page, click More Images to get to the stream of each photo set.
There’s some good stuff buried in there and this is another one [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Social Software on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
One of my favorite NPR radio shows, On Point has a new web site which is not only nice looking, well organized and “modern” but also has commenting on each show.
I predict that a lively community will form there because it’s a great show. More on their new site.
The site also includes a more compatible [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jul 29th, 2008 5 Comments »
Cuil is a new search engine that has a nice clean look and has lots of features that make it extremely useful.
What will be interesting to track is how it does competing with Google. Even if it’s the better tool, Google has so much momentum it may be hard to catch. Nothing like a bit [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software on Jul 28th, 2008 8 Comments »
John Markoff reports on the MobileMe meltdown at Apple.
Dang, I’m glad I’ve avoided this part of Apple. I remember when they came out with their AOL competitor, eWorld. It was also a dog in that it was overly graphical to the point of breaking under its own weight. Apple gets a lot right but in [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Social Software on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
The Young Turks of Cyberspace
This disjointed grab bag of gossip has its elucidating moments, but as the definitive tale of the rise of Web 2.0, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good” serves as a reminder that the latter-day equivalent of Tracy Kidder’s 1981 book, “The Soul of a New Machine,” the gold standard for technology [...]
Posted in Macro, Photo Resources, Social Software on Jul 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
This is another experiment. I just built a slide show of my photographs up on flickr with the tag “Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM” with PictoBrowser. It took all of 30 seconds.
[via Michaela Hackner]
Posted in Photo Gear, Social Software on Jul 22nd, 2008 12 Comments »
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
This is just an experiment. I just built a slide show of my photographs up on flickr with the tag “Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM” with flickrSLiDR. It took all of 30 seconds.
Wow.
Posted in Photo Resources, Social Software on Jul 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
flickrSLiDR
flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You’ll receive the HTML embed code in return.
Cool, have to try this soon.
[via [...]
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