CogBlogged Tagged ‘flickr’

I just noticed on uploading a really short video to flickr that the buttons at the top provides an embed code for copy pasting code to put in your own web site. It’s probablt been there forever, and everyone else on the planet knows it, but it just fell into my radar today. Sometimes, it is really fine to be on the dull not bleeding edge. For what it’s worth, in its full cinematic glory, a magna opus in 36 seconds, Windy Day in Strawberry… and look hard for the trans-character tension overlain by a hero mythic subversion ethos (trying to fake film talk, this is just point and shoot video of things blowing in the wind). Oh cool, the ending of the video provides a comment link. Hey! Wow, it would be nice to have a non-spam comment. Yep. Sure would be nice. No, not you “Aunty” Social you [...]

I had some code fun in September creating the Five Card Stories site, which provides a simple activity in visual storytelling by making a visitor select from five rounds of randomly chosen images to string together as a story told only in pictures — now the source code is available from Google Code (I would have liked to call it alpha version 0.0000001). I designed it somewhat general, as I had two different ways I thought of getting images- one from pulling ones from a given tag in flickr and the other were taken from ones submitted at the Learning 2.008 Conference in a ning forum. The source code provides what you need to run the flickr version. On my site, there are now 516 photos people have tagged to share and as I write this, there are 290 stories that people have created and saved on the site– alot [...]

I did not discover the barfing flickr panda just followe dlinks in my gReader from sites like Mashable. The panda provides a different way to Explore flickr, the 500 most “interesting” photos as identified by the magical algorithm. The Panda just seems to be a new way to vew them; just sit and watch as new photos are upchucked: There is a bit more information, but no explanation, in Of Pandas and Rainbows. To some people, Explore is the ultimate beauty contest. It’s the pinnacle of Flickr, the achievement of achievements. They fret and conspire and worry, and actually get angry and frustrated, when their perfectly fine photos, never “get into” Explore. Except it’s basically random. No matter how artificially “interesting” you try to make your photos (Explore photos are selected via Flickr’s “Interestingness Algorithm”, affectionately known as the “Magic Donkey”), Explore is still only 500+ images each day. And [...]

Oh yeah, it does pay to give stuff away! Or at least to put half baked ideas “out there”. After just posting late last night about my crude 5 card flickr story demo I lamented the problems in code I had in easily getting random flickr photos from a given tag, John Krutsch emailed and offered some code to do what I needed more elegantly. I was going through gyrations to pull photos from an RSS feed, which meant I could only grab newer pix; John’s code scavenges all the photos by cleverly parsing the results of the flickr search results. I plunked in all his code and got all of the duct tape in place and was stunned that I did not have my usual round of 20 PHP typos in a row. It did work as advertised, though I notice every time it had to do the search, [...]

Wow are my PHP coding pencils dull, but I’ve had some fun last 2 nights getting them back (we’ll see how sharp they really). I have a really crude, ugly, unformatted demo of a tool I want to use later this month for a session at the Learning 2.008 conference. So I am asking (a) for feedback on the idea I think is brilliant may not be; (b) contribution of some content by simple tagging. This blog post will wander a bit on concept and sometimes take a nose dive into code but may surface again. I’ve been ultra interested in the idea of telling stories in pictures. Ever since I saw Ruben Puentadora‘s workshop on web comics back in 2007 (and later at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference) a little idea has been brewing. Ruben does this fantastic group activity based on work from Scott McCloud, that makes creative [...]

Are You Talking To Me? by cogdogblog posted 6 Sep ’08, 9.49am MDT PST on flickr Next time you need a good nom de plume, try the Mob Name Generator. Tell them Shakes Pretiili sent you. Yes, I am all over the Generator Blog a nearly infinite list of fun little things to do on the web that create things dynamically. Next up… maybe.. the Chinese movie generator, the Swedish Furniture Name, or next time some asks you for a reference, spit out something with the Endorsement Generator. Besides the silly stuff, which of course is very important here at CogDogBlog, I found a link to PhotoSoup which creates a word finder puzzle generated by pairs of tags in flickr… very cool indeed: PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag is hidden in the [...]

I love tagging and still persist in vain hopes that I can encourage others to do some shared tagging, but feel lucky if I can get a handful of people to use a single tag. I am regularly tagging web sites in delicious with tags destined to be repurposed on at least 10 different web sites, and am starting to wonder what my cranial capacity is to remember what topics I am tagging for. photo credit: Steve Roe So its with some irony I saw some tagging “instructions” for a flickr group. I’ll likely lose my membership for posting this, but small beans. I liked the concept of this Project NetPop group — to “depict how the internet is changing life around you… Post pictures to show the impact of the Internet and technology on your life and the world around you.” In fact I was noodling about a blog [...]

I was just IMing with Nick Noakes who asked if I had tried pictobrowser, a flickr web widget thingie. Like other tools that allow you to embed flickr content, you just need to provide your flickr handle and select a set or tag to display your photos, embedded in another site.

More Moo Goodness by cogdogblog posted 2 Aug ’08, 6.19pm MDT PST on flickr My moo note cards arrived today! I got a set of 16 cards with photos from my journeys to Australia. Yep, got more moo card goodies- my set of 16 notecards came today; I made a set of selected photos from my trips to Australia. Not seen is the text I put on the inside (which also includes photo information, link, etc): Some glimpses of but a few beautiful places within Australia! I want to see more… What can I say but

I really need to stop finding cool stuff and get some work done! But I could not pass on the Flickr Postcard Browser which takes any flickr tags and presents a view like a collection of photos laid out on the table, e.g. hitting some of my own on the tags “strawberry flower” for flower photos at our cabin: And click any image allows you to slide around and admire them up close: Another great find via Tim Lauer! Now quit finding this stuff, Tim, I have work to do!