Archive for the 'Technology' Category

What on Earth?

Google Earth

If I had a tail, it would, I feel, be advisable that I now place it sheepishly between my legs as I tuck into the large portion of humble pie set before me.
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Live8 & G8 Photos

'The Princes Street Gardens staff are getting tough on litter' by Daveybot

The meeting of the G8 world leaders in Gleneagles, Scotland is about to begin. And Third World Debt, together with the poverty and exploitation it creates, is firmly under the spotlight.

Below are the latest photos from the G8 and Live8 groups on Flickr… Read more…

Yellow Wall & the Art of Non-Linear Storytelling

Yellow Wall

I’ve been experimenting with interlinking photos to allow a user to navigate around a scene.

If you click on the photo above, you can then navigate around the Yellow Wall using the links within the image notes. The whole photoset is then interlinked with the nearest photoset.

I want to expand this concept by telling a piece of a story with each photo (see work in progress). The user can reconstruct the story from whichever angle interests them. Kind of like “Choose Your Own Ending”, but more like “Choose Your Own Everything”.

Writing With Photos


So, it’s possible to spell words with Flickr photos, eh?

Kastner’s created a little gizmo to do just this from the photos of Flickr’s countless users.

» Respell Dharmasphere, or…

Spell your own: (on Kastner’s Flickrtext site)

(Refresh the resulting page to get new photo combinations)

Last.fm Music Radio Station

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Image by A is for Angie

<Wow> I’ve just discovered last.fm and audioscrobbler - two related websites that track what music you’re listening to and let others hear that music, through an internet radio broadcast.

Here is some music I’ve been listening to recently:

And related music:

Last.fm has generated this list of artists that I might like. Hmmm…

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