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| Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
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Winter's up! 
| | Right now — 10:36am PST — the Winter Solstice is happening. Now the Sun begins its slow rise toward the Equator. Winter officially starts in the Northern Hemisphere and Summer in the Southern. |
Shoot 'em up
| | So I did. My latest set of sunrise pictures — eleven from this morning, observing the Winter Solstice — are now up there. |
| | Mike's right: Bubbleshare is "ridiculously easy". It also makes heavy use of Flash (version 8 is required). I appreciate what Flash does, but it's still Macromedia's proprietary technology, so I have misgivings. |
| | I also realize that Flickr uses Flash (or used to... not sure now) as well. |
| | A service that doesn't is 23. I'd use them more if they had a batch uploader I liked. Or an easy in-browser bulk upload system like Bubbleshare's. |
| | So this brings up a hmm... How about a universal uploader? Is there such a thing yet? |
| | [Later...] Thomas (who is involved with 23) just pointed out to me that PictureSync is a universal uploader in the sense that it uploads to many different services. Thirteen so far. On the client side, however, it's Mac-only. |
Way to go, Dan
Always nice
| | So many missing, though. Nature of exclusion. Fortunately, blogs are blogs. Long tails (and tales) wag free. |
This is a test. Had it not been an actual emergency, you might have stayed tuned to these spots on your dial.
| | There's a transit strike in NYC now (duh), and although I support the workers' right to strike, the whole situation kind of sucks for me (and about 20 million other people in the NY metro area). What I find extraordinarily clueless, however, is a howling absence from each of these websites: |
| | What I would like to expect to find on these sites is a headline summarizing the exact state of the strike talks with a clear "last updated" timestamp on it. I started looking for useful, current information on the talks about 12 hours before the strike deadline, and now that the strike has been going on for almost 24 hours, the information flow hasn't improved. |
| | The City and MTA sites feature propaganda, and the news sites feature "angle" stories. Maybe we need a fifth estate? |
| | I don't have much hope for Web 2.0 yet if high-profile sites like this still don't get these Web 1.0 issues. |
| | A slight disagreement there. I don't think we'd have ever reached Web 1.0 if it has been up to those kinds of organizations. Laggards don't lead. |
| | Hmm... Look at the natural heartbeat of all those organizations. Channel 4 does the news on a schedule: morning, noon, evening, late night. The Times is a daily. The NYC site is a public building. Moss grows naturally on its north side. The MTA, however, has no excuse. |
| | Organizations have rhythms. An up-to-the-moment pulse is not what most (or any) of those sites feature. |
| | Rather than making distinctions between Web 1.0 and 2.0, I'd rather make them between the Live Web and the Static Web. One does not layer historically on the other, but rather branches off. You're reading the Live Web now: the world of syndicated and current journals. When you look at the MTA site, you're looking at static real estate. Very different. You can mix them, but they don't match. Start reading here (keep hitting "next") for what I said about all this at Syndicate last week. Here's what I wrote a couplle months ago. |
| | I'll be writing more today, which will come out in my SuitWatch newsletter tomorrow, and in Linux Journal on Friday. |
More shootings
| | I just went back and found a few more sunrise shots, from back before I knew (or there was?) Flickr, and put them up as a photoset. They're all from November and December, 2004. |
| | An  interesting thing: I've become much more accustomed to my camera in the year since. I also discovered the image editor in iView MediaPro, which puts most of the useful features from the Gimp and Photoshop in one little window. Crop, rotate, adjust color levels, saturation, brightness and contrast are all there, with large previews. And very easy to use, especially since it doesn't require opening another program. As a photographer's tool, MediaPro is far more useful than iPhoto. |
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