It seems that Facebook has taken issue with pictures of women breast feeding their children. As a dad of 3 young boys and a photographer I know first hand that the breast-feeding picture is one of the first a new parent takes. Either somebody at Facebook has made a silly error of judgment, or the place is run by pre-parents who find breasts to be only sexual objects. (OK I’m joking about the latter, but still, this is ridiculous). As a contribution to the protest that has broken out I have created an album on fotonuats that is entirely open
[read more]...fotonauts released a new build of the Mac beta today and it got me to playing with it again. It can now access Facebook files and also file system based images. It already had iPhoto, Aperture, Picasa and Flickr. So, here is a memory jogger. this is an album of RealNames related people and events between 1998 and 2002. Wow! Mike looks young. And so does Jean-Marie. As for me. I look pretty much the same :-(. But what great memories. And now shared… 🙂 http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/1a2ac3f5-8bc4-4ea5-9a64-3185733c6911/widget/width/425 Notable faces: Gené McPherson, Jim Strawbridge, Rob Reid, Griffin Golamco, Barbara Gore, Nicolas Popp,
[read more]...I just took delivery of a new Canon 5D Mark II. Its a 21 megapixel hottie with full 1080p video. Here’s an example video of my 2 year old -Â http://gallery.me.com/kteare#100150. Then, Nikon announced a 24.5 Megapixel D3X for $8000 (the Canon is $2699.00). It doesn’t do video! And by many measures it is a worse camera. Here’s what Hitler thinks – warning, it is VERY funny. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwf2RShNV0&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344]
[read more]...The news of Barak Obama’s election victory, inevitable as it has seemed for weeks, if not for months, has barely sunk in. Commentators as diverse as George Bush and The Reverend Jessie Jackson are agreed about one thing – Americans (and I am now one) should be proud of themselves for electing an African-American as leader of the USA. It is historical. It is a proud moment for the people of the USA and shows they are looking to the future with optimism, not the past with cynicism. But the significance of Obama’s victory goes far beyond what it means
[read more]...Forrester released a report today ($279 download if you want it). Titled “What’s holding RSS back?” it claims that only 11% of Internet consumers use RSS and that those who have not don’t understand it. Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion responds that : “..while feed adoption may have crested the idea of online opt-in communications is just getting going. The Facebook newsfeed, Twitter and Friendfeed are perfect examples of opt-in vehichles that bring content you care about to you. In each case, you’re total in control. You can unsubscribe from individuals or groups and tailor the stream so that what
[read more]...Astute and Hilarious Great use of Seesmic. John Cleese (part 2): Obama, Biden & Fox Newshttp://seesmic.com/embeds/wrapper.swf
[read more]...I used the USA Today vote tracker today. Here’s where I came out in my predictions. I hope I’m close 🙂 Having said that Obama is clearly the “lesser of 2 evils”. I don’t agree with a lot of what he says. Particularly his belief that the US should send more troops to Afghanistan and Pakistan. I just prefer him to McCain.
[read more]...Slowly but surely the fotonauts development team is getting to the point where we can begin to release invites from the – now very long – queue. It will be worth the wait. Today I was able to make an album from my Aperture library, and without time to even blink, a web version of the album was available for me to share – http://www.fotonauts.com/albums/d5b780ae-8509-4f01-9a4d-38fa974a6255. I also published it to my Flickr account without extra effort – http://www.flickr.com/photos/kteare/sets/72157607916412505/. And, as with all albums, I could make a widget to put here: http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/d5b780ae-8509-4f01-9a4d-38fa974a6255/widget/width/400 Up until now the web versions of albums
[read more]...You know the old saying – Bulls make money, Bears make money and Pigs get slaughtered. Well, take a look at this graph from the World Bank: It seems like Iceland is Pig number 1. Look at who is number 2! The chart is measuring domestic credit as a % of GDP, or the extent to which the nation as a whole is leveraged. These are 2005 numbers and significantly understate the current numbers, which in the US have been reported as being at 435%. That means for every real $ in circulation there is $4.35 in credit. I’m not
[read more]...Jean-Michel Jarre has – he claims – been resting. And during his rest he has started playing with fotonauts – as one of the very early beta testers. fotonauts albums can already be posted in the wild via widget. Here is a page from his “Concerts” Album – from his Paris concert in 2007. http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/fad5258c-2100-4282-8369-2a51d936a666/entries/9771cbc4-d3ef-4cf7-88a9-5b158b5c81d2/widget/width/400 And Barcelona 2008 http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/fad5258c-2100-4282-8369-2a51d936a666/entries/2bc7866e-d0e2-499d-a1f8-df11b2455b4e/widget/width/400 As you can see below – the application gives him a direct means of communicating with his audience, and allows them to add their own photos from the concerts.
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