A Photo Trek with a Duck Hunter

Saturday I met Marc50. Sunday I met another long-time Flickr friend – Ed Clem, the Duck Hunter. Ed and I have been online friends for several years now.  We started commenting on each other’s photos first on Flickr, then started following and commenting on each other’s blogs, and have both been active on Facebook and [...]

Posted by Tom on August 15th, 2011 | 1 Comment Posted in History and Genealogy, Local, Photography

Flickr to Panoramio – One More Attempt

I really want to contribute to Panoramio.  Really, I do.  I would love to have my photos show up in a native layer on Google Earth without having to use a third-party KML/KMZ file.  So I’ve been looking for work-arounds for their security problems and inability to upload more than 10 images at a time. [...]

Posted by Tom on February 18th, 2011 | No Comments Posted in Geocaching and Maps, Photography

Rethinking Panoramio

Last post I was singing the praises of Panoramio for location-based photo sharing.  I’ve uploaded a bunch of photos, and had 250 approved for Google Earth.  I was quite flattered.  The selected photos included some of my best shots, and covered the entire US, from Florida to Maine, to Washington State. …and as of this [...]

Posted by Tom on February 17th, 2011 | 5 Comments Posted in Photography, Rants

From Flickr to Panoramio

I finally caved in. I’ve been uploading some selected photographs to Panoramio so that they will appear in the Google Earth Photos layer.  As of this writing I have 121 photographs that have been selected to appear in Google Earth, and I’ve submitted more that are awaiting approval. If you’ve got a Google account, then [...]

Posted by Tom on February 16th, 2011 | 9 Comments Posted in Geocaching and Maps, Photography

The Perils of Cloud Computing

Yahoo is in trouble. That’s not news as it’s been going on for several years now, but it seems to be spiraling out of control even more. This week they announced a 4% reduction in their global workforce. Along with that they have announced the elimination of several popular services, including the social bookmarking site, [...]

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Posted by Tom on December 17th, 2010 | 5 Comments Posted in Internet
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