Aviary heats things up with Phoenix online image editor

I’m a huge fan of Picnik. I can do so many cool things with it. It’s snappy, fun, and easy. Now I saw on both RWW and Photojojo reviews of Aviary and it’s online photo editor Phoenix and my first question was (and sorta still is) is it worth $95/yr (for the high-end package, the [...]

FlickrDown: Great Utility or Threat to Intellectual Property?

I caught from Brian Solis—FlickrDown Pulls Pictures from the Cloud to Your PC — bub.blicio.us—and DownloadSquad—posts about FlickrDown and thought, wow that sounds cool until I read this comment on Brian’s post: Brian, it appears this program allows the download of images even when the photographer does not allow downloads. It also strips the metadata [...]

Media Democracy Day Panels: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination & The Battle for New Media and Open Communication

I had a great time today at Media Democracy Day. I didn’t get there until after lunch time, but I managed to catch a couple panels and live tweeted them. First was: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination In much of the traditional media, newsrooms are being squeezed, local coverage diminished, and serious [...]

Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty, a photo essay

Fitting that after last night’s Net Tuesday on social media for change, that today is blog action day and that the topic is poverty. I had already decided to do my post as a photo essay. This is my first photo essay, and I’m mostly happy with it. Anyway, what I was thinking is that [...]

When “whoops” becomes “wow”-a wrong camera setting can give great results

Over the weekend I went to Seattle for a little shopping and while Sheila was browsing bead stores (she makes amazing jewelry), I took pictures around the stores. At our last stop I was playing with small apertures for some landscapes (f/16 to be exact). I wasn’t really getting what I was looking for so [...]

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