A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
Chip hooked me up with a new blogging service called Tumblr. The interface is super-simple, and there is an excellent "Share on Tumblr" applet that will automatically post videos, images, whatever into the Tumblr blog at the push of a button. As Chip states in his tagline, "Tumblr, because I’m too lazy to blog." Having … Read More “Tumblin’ with Tumblr” »
I was reorganizing all the various gadgets I have in my car – GPS, XM, phone charger, etc. All of these require power from the cigarette lighter, which got me thinking about probably the first device that used the lighter as a power outlet – the CB Radio. In pre-Internet days, the CB was the … Read More “Whither CB?” »
A couple of days ago I mentioned about my problem with Flickr geotagging. The Flickr user in question didn’t limit her geotagging to just her residence, but seems to have polluted the entire area with pictures of herself in lingerie (or less.) Despite my earlier comments, none of them are family-friendly, and almost all of … Read More “Geotagging Dilemma” »
As I’ve stated previously, the things that tend to generate the most buzz about Google Earth/Maps have been those of a more pruirient nature – bikini girls in StreetView, or supposedly topless sunbathers in Google Earth. I’ve even been asked to block Google Earth because of bad language in its Panoramio application. So far I’ve … Read More “Google Voyeurism” »
This is incredibly addictive, probably even more so than Google Earth was for me when it first came out. These folks have frozen a moment in time of life on the streets in these five cities, and the ability to view that moment from multiple perspectives is very compelling. Collections of "sightings" have popped up … Read More “More Googley Goodness from Streetview” »
As it turns out, I’m not the only one who likes to drive around the state and take photographs. For some time now I have followed the travels of Flickr photographer and friend SisuDave from Greenwood. One of Dave’s pet projects is photographing businesses with a first name in the title, such as John’s Transmissions … Read More “More Flickr Finds for South Carolina” »
As I’m looking for information about small towns, I’m stumbling across some fantastic resources. The latest is an offering by the Pickens County Library System. The have set up a Flickr account for the historic photographs in their collection. The original photographs and negatives are house in in the Mary Oates Gregorie Historical Room at … Read More “Pickens County on Flickr” »
Courtesy of BoingBoing.net, I came across a cool website. Paleo-Future purports to be a "look into the future that never was." It looks back at predictions in Popular Science and other sources and sees where those predictions are now. Some of the predictions are amusing. Some are truly disappointing. All are entertaining.
I get tons of spam comments on this website. That’s just part of living with a blog that accepts comments. Some of them try to flatter and fool you with a phrase such as, "I found the information on this website to be very useful." Then they post tons of links to everything from dubious … Read More “Polite Spam” »
One of the most useful tools I’ve found for my recent geographic projects has been the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) from the US Geological Survey. Users can search on both foreign and domestic names and receive a list of potential hits based on that name, with a description of the geographic feature (stream, town, … Read More “Just Name the Place” »