BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon Delacour writes about sentiment and freshman photographers: When I taught photography, the photographs taken by first year students were—with very few exceptions—sentimental clichés. As an attempt to counter this, Jonathon and the other photography department instructors posted a notice that banned certain subjects in photographs the students submitted, such as closeups of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been writing primarily about technology lately, though I want to assure one and all that this is NOT the focus of this weblog — it’s just one area of interest in my life. I do want to apologize to those who had subscribed to my RSS feeds, as I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday was a disappointing technology day. I had hoped to use the position of devil’s advocate at the RSS-Dev group to see if we couldn’t get a firmer definition of what the group sees as its future direction, strategy, as well as specific reasons for use of RDF. I continue to see […]
Recovered from Wayback Machine. Just posted the following over at RSS-Dev (edited to remove typos): There seems to be three separate threads running along the lines of “Who are we and what are we trying to accomplish”, mixed in with proofs and justification of keeping RDF in the mix. How can the energy expended into […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am not a very outgoing person. It’s uncommonly difficult for me to just start talking to strangers, not because I don’t like people, but because there’s a part of me worries that I’m encroaching—intruding into people’s personal space. During the trip last week, I deliberately went out of my […]