Archives for February, 2005
Flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a Firefox sidebar. You can choose streams to display including everyone’s, friends and family, contacts and groups… Keep up with new photos while you work on the web… (Via Lifehacker.)
I’m playing around with RSS feeds from Flickr. Just about anything you have in Flickr can generate an RSS feed… Comments, tagged images… it is a pretty powerful feature… The link below leads to a display of the images I have tagged in Flickr with the term kids. I also use the tool to display [...]
NPR : Wikipedia’s Growth Comes with Concerns This morning National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition had a piece on Wikipedia, its growth over the past four years, and the usual pros and cons concerning accuracy and editorial control. I have a longer post about this over at eSchoolNews….
iPod Shuffle Hint From My Daughter Karina Originally uploaded by timlauer. My daughter makes a pitch for an iPod Shuffle…
Gates Crew Originally uploaded by timlauer. The Gates Project A lot being written and said about the Christo, Jeanne Claude installation in Central Park. From the New York Times today… Even at first blush, it was clear that “The Gates” is a work of pure joy, a vast populist spectacle of good will and simple [...]
In Motion A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Told in historical texts, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism. This site from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [...]
#2 Originally uploaded by lydiamaria. My oldest daughter is a graphic design student at Seattle University. She uses Flickr to post some of her work. Her is a draft of a submission for one of her classes…
Flickr Graph is a visualization tool that looks at the social relationships inside flickr.com. It lets you visually see contact connections between yourself and others. Type in a username and see a display of their contacts. Click on contact and see their connections. Another example of someone taking advantage of the API’s built into Flickr.
Something Less Than A Cadillac Tim Stahmer has a great post today about a computer based literacy program that Los Angeles Unified invested over $50 million dollars in and found that their results are less than stellar… Tim asks some very good questions… Is it really a good thing to have five and six-year olds [...]
Google Maps This looks pretty interesting… Found this on The Tao of Mac along with posts to some other interesting map tools… Take a look at Map24. A very slick Java based map web application. More about Google Maps below… Maps are great for getting around, but online maps could be a lot better. So [...]
BetterSearch – A Firefox Extension For Enhancing Search Engines An extension for Firefox which enhances Google, MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, AllTheWeb, del.icio.us and Simpy.com. Adds a thumbnail preview of web pages and Amazon product images. Also adds the following links: “Open in New Window”, “Site Info” and “Wayback Machine”…
