I’ve been reading some of the articles associated with Web 2.0 (Jeremy Zawodny has several dumps of these) , and I’m not sure that I’m particularly impressed with what I’m seeing. The consensus seems to be that Web 2.0 is really about lightweight services and open source functionality, but we had that at the very beginning […]
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Emerging Tech Proposal
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I decided, what the hey, I wanted to put my Emerging Tech proposal online. I’m rather fond of it myself. I may actually build something on this for the upcoming IT Kitchen. ==================== Proposal Information ==================== Title: I, Poet Conference: O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 Type/Duration: 45m Audience Level: General Audience […]
If someone were interested in robbing a bank in St. Louis, now is the time to do it. Most police are being pulled into details covering the joint appearances of Kerry and Bush here from Thursday to Saturday, culminating in their next debate, Friday night. I didn’t even attempt to get tickets for this, but there is a […]
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Wrath of the Webloggers
I don’t care for many of the articles about weblogging, but this one by Wired magazine on the mob mentality of webloggers should be required reading – in particular by every political weblogger. Webloggers consider themselves the ultimate fact checkers, but lately they’re not satisfied to just fact check; they also want to be judge and executioner, demanding […]
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NEF Workflow
We had some discussions about camera workflow and I wanted to write a note about what I’m doing to process my photos. The key to me finding a workflow with my new camera is to maximize the use of my existing tools, and minimize costs. Since I need to have photography support for both of […]