cc licensed flickr photo by Marcus Ramberg I’ve been seeing a number of my search results this year landing on sites like WikiAnswers and Yahoo Answers — these are useful setups using a wiki based model where anyone can post a question, and then any site visitor can answer. It’s a great approach. I mean, […]
Among others, Lee Blackall is asking if WikiPedia should cost six million dollars in light of the budget details released by Jimmy Wales. After, all six million clams is a lot of moolah, more than most wikipedia authors/users likely have sitting in their piggy banks. I could not help a flashback to what that amount […]
Today’s photo was just another day, just another photo, a string of 366 of them since Mike the Lllama on Jan 1 , 2008 when D’Arcy Norman prompted me to follow along with the post a photo a day game (see more back story in One Day One Photo where this all started). At last […]
Did you know that airlines can take your money for tickets, and then keep it when their own delays cause you to miss connections? There is a word for that. Did you know they can ignore requests for customer service? Not reply to messages they acknowledge they will? Did you know that the Bush administration […]
Do you use the TwitterTools plugin on your own WordPress site to send your blog posts to your tweet stream? Wanna feel like a real WordPress hack jockey? Here is a little code editing you can do without needing to know diddly squat about PHP. Here’s the thing, when TwitterTools published your new sexy blog […]
cc licensed flickr photo by SiRi About the most reliable prediction one can make this end time of year is the flood of people posting their own predictions for 2009, lots of them in the technology space (e.g. ReadWriteWeb, EDITing in the Dark, and Stephen Downes takes out the 10 year scope in an amazing […]
JamStudio is a nifty online music mixer where you can compose and publish your own tunes. You put music keys on the score, select instruments, set tempo, etc: You can create multiple “pages” of music; I just played quickly to create two “originals” (hah, just quick futzing around): Cowboy Glitter [448k MP3] Rain on the […]
Fast Food (Roadrunner) by Nick Chill posted 11 Nov ’08, 4.11pm MST PST on flickr Here is another of the Greater Roadrunner, actually running across the road. He was very challenging to shoot. View On Black 20081108-088 As astutely commented by John Larkin another Twitteronema (Twitter+Phenomena) is how fast software and web site creators respond […]
I was excited to try Animoto‘s new app for the iPhone that allows you to create videos from iPhone photos and their music selection. So I loaded up 16 photos, arranged them, and selected my music. Then when I went to create the video, I keep getting told my phone is offline, despite the 5 […]
Road Dog by cogdogblog posted 23 Dec ’08, 9.39am MST PST on flickr Happy to be done traveling for 2008! Stuff organized by TripIt www.tripit.com/people/cogdog Woot! I shall not see the inside of another airport for a long while (well, til January 15). It was quite a thrill to place the blue dots as tracked […]
