BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been posting comments over in Jeff Jarvis’ space, primarily as a way of learning to not get offended, because if you say something someone doesn’t agree with there, you will get blasted. In addition, Jarvis does attract some very interesting people who have much good to say, but if […]
In an uncanny bit of serendipity, I was out looking for baby squirrel images (now why is she looking for images of baby squirrels, her reader’s ask), when I found before and after images of a baby squirrel that shows how Photoshop can be used to salvage a photo. The before photo isn’t all that great – […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Six Apart has posted a page describing their TypeKey installation, and it is a centralized authentication system. Only one word can describe this design idea: bad. With a centralized authentication system for comments, a person can be tracked by their comments wherever they go, even if they don’t want to be so […]
Simon 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 […]