BurningbirdSimon St. Laurent has a new essay online about digital photography compared to film photography, and the discipline to not use Photoshop to enhance our photos. He wrote this in response to Tim Bray’s Photointegrity essay. Tim writes about the cult of photographic puritanism and minimalism, and taking the …bits the camera gives you and push ’em out on the […]
Ben Hammersley has a new article at the Guardian on the syndication format wars, as they enter their too manyth year anniversary. As he sees it, don’t hold your breath for a united RSS/Atom syndication effort. However, unless you’re specifically coding an application that generates syndication feeds, or consumes them, most people could care less which syndication […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just got home, and still unpacking. However, I decided to take a quick break and while I was catching up with my weblog reading, I discovered that more information about Movable Type 3.0 has been released, including some info about the comment registration process: With a suite of comment management features […]
Just a quick note to point something out that I will be talking more about this weekend. Michael Hanscom pointed out a House Resolution to allow Congress to override the Supreme Court when the Court indulges in what the family values folk term “judicial activism”. What are examples of ‘judicial activism’? Try the civil rights movement, the […]
Sometimes a picture finds me, and then I know I have to write a story to go with it. Well, in this case, it was three pictures; therefore I have to create a three-picture story: The Powderpuff Blogging Manifesto. However, the writing must wait, as I’m in the midst of preparing to head home tomorrow. […]