Mar 07
It’s been on my to do list since August, but I finally got the last mile of code done to restore my Five Card Flickr stories site to life.
If you had not played with this before, the initial description tells it all:
I’ve been ultra interested in the idea of telling stories in pictures. Ever [...]
Feb 26
cc licensed flickr photo shared by elvis_payne
Let’s say you were marooned on the apocryphal desert island that was equipped with a broadband internet connection limited to accessing one web site, what would it be?
Well maybe that is not the question I was framing- most people might claim email or twitter, maybe even (eww) facebook [...]
Jan 13
I always provide links back to the source as attribution for the flickr creative commons photos I use. Today I ran into the not so surprising case of wondering what to do, and what the ramifications for, if the original is no longer there?
Here’s the case. A dark night in a web that knows [...]
Jan 01
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
Wow it has been so nice to be lazy, to be spending what feels like more time offline than online. All of the tech todos on my list for the holiday vacation remain undone (the list crumpled up and is burning in the wood stove now). The plan to [...]
Dec 20
I’ve had fun following D’Arcy Norman’s tweets as he experiments with an old Pentax film camera he got from his Dad. It got me thinking that I’ve had a string of cameras, but have never bothered to document my camera history.
Not that anyone would care,, this is a blog post for me as an [...]
Dec 03
Over this morning’s coffee I was rummaging around my flickr stats.
Yum, stats.
If you have never done this, there is an incredible amount if interesting information you can find there, like I have no idea why there was a spike of 2000+ views on November 22.
Or you can find which of your photos has been [...]
Nov 30
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Fenchurch!
November was a month of taking on more of the “do something every day” type projects, and I think the madness needs to stop. I’ll stop every day.
This of course, is not a promise I intend to keep. I find these challenges very rewarding, especially the ones that you [...]
Nov 04
Nothing is more sweeter than the serendipity of finding something online that grabs a breath from you, and such that you drop what you are doing to dig deeper. This has only happened to me, oh, estimating (counting on fingers…) maybe 18672 times.
One more.
A day or so ago, on scanning the flow of tweets, I [...]
Sep 16
cc licensed flickr photo shared by WadeB
Flickr was quietly introduced a new feature that will be interesting to use- Galleries.
Think of it as a way to build collections of photos from other flickr users.
It was always hard to do this before; the ost viable route was tagging photos, most people do not allow other people [...]
Aug 08
Randomly surfing flickr for photos for a new video project. Sometimes, when I find a photo (usually via a compfight search) i like that’s part of a set, I look at the whole set.
On one today, I found it was generated automatically by something called Flickr Set Manager:
Flickr Set Manager allows you to automatically create [...]