A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
Happy 60th Anniversary! Putting up with each other for that long is a great achievement. Putting up with the rest of us is even more amazing! Congratulations! Stephen has a much better way with words, so I’ll just link to his tribute.
When I first got to my office early this morning I opened up RandomConnections to check comments and clean out the boatload of spam comments that tends to accumulate overnight. The first thing I noticed was that all of my photos were missing. If I clicked through to get to the actual photo page, the … Read More “So Much for Flickr” »
Right now there are three main players in the photo geotagging world – Flickr, Panoramio, and Picasa. All three of these list geotagging as a feature, and provide easy drag-n-drop apps for adding location to the images. I was curious as to whether or not other big photo sharing sites, specifically Photobucket, WebShots, and Kodak … Read More “Geotagging the Also Rans” »
I found this via my brother Stephen’s Tumblr account – an application that analyzes the readability level of various blogs and websites. My Master’s degree is in Reading Instruction, so I’ve spent a good bit of time studying readability levels and lexile scores for text. I’m actually quite please with this outcome for RandomConnections… I … Read More “Readability Level” »
The placement of the Chic-fil-a cows was truly unfortunate.
After I finished my photo walk with the other Flickrites, it was time for Homecoming activities. I wasn’t sure how many of my friends would be around – it’s the 25th reunion for the class just before me, so there might have been some long lost classmates returning. I had commitments from two friends, Alan … Read More “Furman Homecoming 2007” »
Early Saturday morning four of us who post to Flickr met up at Furman for a photowalk as part of the Exposure.Greenville! Flickr group. Photographers Eric Morris (Rested Traveler), Pher Reinman (PU Skunk) and Patrick Greer (linkerjpatrick) joined me next to the lake at a very early 8:30 AM so that we could catch the … Read More “Furman Flickr Foto Foursome” »
This weekend was Homecoming at Furman, and it was an anniversary for Laura and I. We first met the Friday evening of Homecoming twenty years ago. Back then, Homecoming was held in mid-October rather than the first of November, so the actual date was October 16. To commemorate, we did our traditional walk down the … Read More “Homecoming Anniversary” »
When I did my presentation “Geotag This! Adding Location to Learning” at EdTech I wanted to give examples of geotagging different types of media, not just photographs. With the new YouTube layer now available in Google Earth, it was easy to demonstrate how to geotag video, and with GeoRSS feeds now available, I was able … Read More “GeoPodcasting – Adding Location to Audio” »
Chip sent this to me over the weekend. The photo was taken in 1985, and shows me demonstrating a MIDI sequencer to a bunch of kids. I don’t remember if it was a Boy Scout troop, or what. Chip, my nephew, is the dark-haired kid in the picture. The equipment shown includes a Commodore 64 … Read More “Memories of an Alphageek” »