As Forrest Gump never said, “Momma told me life is like a box of yams…” Nope that does not work, just the morning brain on free association. For those not reading ariound here before, my love of taking and sharing photos is not centered in making money or getting anything from my photos, and this […]
Welcome back to an old song around here, the ideas and ways of giving attribution when reusing the creative works of others. My approach is ABA, Always Be Attributing. The hyperlink is perhaps the simplest and easiest way, as perhaps it might be coined by some weirdo as “linktribution” (yet one more stillborn neologism). But […]
I both wince and smile when I see those proclamations about the web [internet] being broken. I’d like to know the field data that is based upon. To say this confidently, someone would have to visited and explored every single corner of the web. I for one have been exploring for 2 plus decades and […]
Come sit around the campfire for more old web person stories. As it was when I landed on the web in 1993, I am always thinking about the making, the literal weaving as the master wrote, of the web. And how underneath it all, nearly always visible, if you can look, is a bunch of […]
Almost more than anything on the internet, I love Flickr. Weird, eh? Maybe one of the first media sources to full embrace and integrate Creative Commons licensing, Flickr is not only the main place for sharing my own photos but also the place I usually dip into first for finding photos shared under open licenses […]
This was just another one of those stories where someone made use of one of my public domain flickr photos shared under CC0. If you follow the typical convention as taught in those woekshops, this means you can use an image, and not even need to give credit. Just grab and go. But that’s what […]
SPLOTs. Who can’t get enough of them? Most of the internet, I am sure. It’s been a while, aka five years, since I cued up Cher and Whats His Name for that funky toe tapping beat. It’s been literally years since I touched the WordPress themes that power SPLOTs. Yet weirdly, and with all the […]
Bring on the crashing sounds of ACDC to be heard around the web… For Those About To Write HTML Tags (I Salute You)! Stand up and be countedFor what you are about to receiveWe are the web makersHTML gives you everything you needHail, hail to the basic tags‘Cause the web has got the right of […]
Strap your self in for another wild old crazy link tour, real audio echoes from the web past, and an anomaly of a free web storytelling tool that not only is around after a start 8 years ago, but quite useful. This web rabbit hole goes deep, deep, deep, including some browser source inspection of […]
I get a little grumpy when I open a new browser tab and am not greeted by a random public domain image from the Library of Congress. It’s like someone taking a knife to my IV drip of small joys. This is enabled by a little gizmo I have taken under my tech wing, the […]
