A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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Tag Clouds are a common feature of websites based on "folksonomies". At a glance, a casual viewer can see not only what interests that author, but the intensity of that interest. Take, for example, the following tag cloud from an anonymous Flickr user: The size of the font indicates the number of times that … Read More “Triple Tags and Cloud Clutter” »
I just realized that I’ve been making a critical error. I’m still in the "web designer" mindset, so I try to make all of my images as compact and as efficient to load as possible. To acccomplish this, I’ve been using Photoshop’s "save for web" function. This holds whether or not the image is to … Read More “Doh!” »
Feedmap has created a little routine that will generate a blogmap – a tiny-badge-sized map that shows your blog’s location. It’s clickable. It’s interactive. You can put this in your metadata column on the front page of your blog so that others know where you are, and you can see how many other local bloggers … Read More “Even more geotagging blogservations” »
As much as I love all things map and GPS related, I don’t know why it took me so long to get hooked up with geotagging. Basically, geotagging is the addition of lat/long data to the metadata associated with images, blog posts – or just about anything else that can be "tagged" with descriptors. Any … Read More “Geotag This!” »
Sometime back I posted about a "Generation of Lost Photographs." Basically, I stated that we were losing a photographic record of a generation because of the impermenance of digital images. My original argument still stands – film images are longer lasting and better suited for long-term documentation. However, there is a unique feature of digital … Read More “Lost Photographs, revisited” »
The RandomConnections Podcast happened sooner than I thought! Take a look on the right-hand menu, and you’ll see a chit for Talkr. Open iTunes, or whatever Podcast feeder you use, then drag and drop the chit onto your subscription list. You will be automatically subscribed to an audio feed of this website in MP3 format. … Read More “Everybody Podcast!” »
It would seem that Bauer has updated his MySpace page. There was a follow-up article in this morning’s Greenville News… Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer’s personal Web page at MySpace.com picked up considerable sobriety Thursday as bikini photos and a link to a racy discussion group vanished, replaced by earnest political discussion. That may well be, … Read More “Andre Bauer Update” »
Our wonderful Lt. Governor, Andre Bauer, has been in the news quite a bit lately. This has mostly been due to his reckless driving skills and the fact that he seems to be ticket-proof, even when driving at high speeds through residential areas. Bauer is rumored to have a ferocious temper, and even had one … Read More “Our Cyber-Savvy Lt. Governor” »
Given my earlier rant against Podcasts, one might think that I’m completely against them. No. I just want them to be used correctly. I actually have some ideas for Podcasts that I might explore… Casual Segs – In this podcast I would draw upon my background as a college radio DJ. The show would focus … Read More “OK, So You’re Bound and Determined to Podcast” »
I had a first-year teacher stop by my office yesterday, and he used the term "webmaster" to refer to some work he was doing. As I listened to him, I realized that I had also stated that I was the webmaster for the Greenville Chorale on my most recent resume that I sent to Fourth … Read More “Webmaster No More” »