Posted on March 9, 2008 by bradhinton
The latest issue of Information Research is online. A couple of the articles of particular interest to me were on household information practices and Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure. The sample sizes used in both research articles were quite small but the articles did prompt my [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2007 by bradhinton
I was reading the Green Guide in today’s Melbourne Age. In the Websights section I noticed a short paragraph about a service, still in beta, that combines photos, video, and music into a professional looking multimedia product.
The service is from Animoto and this is what they are about: “Each video is a fully customized orchestration of [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2007 by bradhinton
Some friends of mine have been encouraging me to open up a Facebook account. I understand the mechanics of Facebook, especially it’s college mentality origins. Intellectually I can see why Facebook has become popular, but personally I am not so enamoured. But then again, I don’t watch much televison (especially useful at this time in [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2007 by bradhinton
I was at a friend’s place recently for dinner. We had a really wonderful dinner (thanks Joanna) and then out came the photos of their trip to Poland. Now I do like photography, but often the digital slide night can become a tad tedious.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to see a very nicely presented book with some [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2007 by bradhinton
I previously made some comments about tagging. I believe tagging has its place as does controlled vocabularies. John Udell’s blog post yesterday on tagging and foldering made the point that: “On the desktop as well as on the web, we’re in the midst of a long transition from container-based to query-based storage and retrieval”.
In container-based storage one [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2007 by bradhinton
Rob Galbraith’s website had a recent news item about audio slideshows and how they are being used by newspapers on their websites. Galbraith’s cited example is from the Miami Herald. Even our own Sydney Morning Herald has an audio slideshow of the recent Panamax ship stranded on the beach at Newcastle.
The audio slideshow is simply a combination [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2007 by bradhinton
Australia’s ITNews reports that Japanese consumer electronics company Sony is getting in on the social computing act with Vaio Nation. The site accepts video productions for uploading, commentary, and ratings. Not surprisingly, Sony is a big player in the camcorder market. Sony can use this new site to showcase Sony products like camcorders, laptops, cameras, music, and software [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2007 by bradhinton
Photography is one of my favourite activities and interests me both visually and in terms of words and language. One of the intriguing aspects of photography is the words and language we use to describe the image, either to ourselves in the silent monologue inside our brains, or in conversation with other people.
I was lucky [...]
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