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Swirling Around with Flickr Tag Browser

The Flickr Related Tag Browser is a cool way to surf and cross surf related tags within the vast flickr photo-empire.

Flickr Related Tag Browser lets you surf Flickr’s ‘tag space’. Flickr tags are keywords used to classify images. Each tag has a list of ‘related’ tags, based on clustered usage analysis.

Thanks to the Flickr team for their great API. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.

I could not agree more with that last sentence. Is there a lesson out there as to what can happen when you let folks loose on data via an open API? That more people will enter a site through these more or less freely franchised outlets? It seems like the antithesis to rigid corporate portals.

But enough of that let’s walk through how it works (Geez, I wish I was set up for screencasting!)…

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I Like (Stealing? Borrowing?) Your Colors

Do you like someone else’s web design color scheme? Curious as to what color codes are used? Try Red Alt – I Like Your Colors. Just enter a URl, and it fetches the colors used as defined in HTML or CSS (some sites seem not to give them up as easily, perhaps with the @import […]

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Friends with the IT Guys

Often this blog has published my rants and vents against our IT department, like last month’s escapade with a hacked server. It’s only fair to report when things go the opposite way. I met face to face with the head of our server team and their top Linux tech, and they were both helpful, supportive, […]

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One Story: Two Books: OneBookAZ Night

Tonight I attended a OneBookAZ Authors night, and event sponsored/arranged by our office. OneBookAZ is a project in its (?) third year, where every April, one book is selected as a common one read by groups across the state and events are arranged for discussion etc. This year there were actually two books: one a […]

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Join Us- Ocotillo Learning Objects Online Discussion With Scott Leslie

This week we are fortunate to have as a Scott Leslie as a “virtual guest: for our Ocotillo Learning Objects Groups discussions: http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/bb/viewforum.php?f=20 Our internal participation is so far…. well…. light… so we are hoping some other voices in the mix might make things move along. Our discussion boards ar eopen for anyone to read, […]