Category Archives: new media

Opinions, links and information about the ever evolving “new” media.

A Delicious Featured Stack

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My “Design” stack was featured on the homepage of Delicious.com today, which is kind of cool. Stacks are a relatively new way to bundle and share weblinks. This stack is a collection of useful links for web or print designers. I will continue to add to it as I find great resources to share.

http://delicious.com/stacks/view/N0ybUi

Delicious.com, or del.icio.us, as it was once known (the clever URL still resolves), is a social weblink sharing and categorizing site.  I have been it site since 2004, shortly after it went live. Cut my teeth on RSS, tagging and discovered the early social “blogosphere” there.  My “caught in the web” blog category “daily catch” featured many of those early finds. Delicious has been through a few different owners including Yahoo, where it languished while other sites took off.  Lately, they have added the ability to share visual “stacks” of collections of links.

While I miss the active homepage feeds of fresh links that functioned as a pre-Twitter social web of discovery (in fact, I first heard about Twitter the day it went online on the delicious activity feed), I still use it frequently and recommend it to people as a great way to find, organize and share interesting websites.

Follow me: http://delicious.com/elr

I have only just begun to “stack.” Most of my links are categorized into various tags and bundles (an earlier approach to stacking links together).

Lytro Walkabout

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On Feb 6th, I got a chance to join with other Lytro owners-to-be on a photo-walk around the Prudential Center. The Lytro camera is a small light field camera that will begin shipping later this spring. It represents a completely new way to take pictures. The light-field lenses capture a much wider range of light, allowing vibrant photos to be taken in low light situations with no flash. What's truly revolutionary, though, is the software that is built into the camera. It allows for re-focusing after the photo has been taken. Photos are designed to be shared on the screen and can be modified by the viewer.

Photos taken with the camera appear to have been shot with via a powerful zoom. I have ideas for setting up some interesting scenarios that play with this exaggerated depth of field, where perhaps as one's focus changes the meaning of the image is altered as well.

One of my images from the photo walk was posted to the Lytro gallery. I'll see if I can embed it here... (I can if I turn off the wysiwyg editor, the embed is in an iframe) Scroll around to some of the other photos, too, and see just how different this camera is!

Feb 6, Prudential Center

Google+ and Me

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I’ve gotten an account at Google+

Sharing my account address seems a bit difficult (hope they let you create unique names soon) but I think it’s Here.

After spending just a little time there adding a few friends and interesting people and checking through the features, it seems to be more of a Twitter on steroids than a replacement for Facebook. It merges your existing Google apps (if you are already a Gmail and Docs user the benefits will be clear) and makes sharing and categorizing streams of interests easy.

I am liking the new features of WordPress 3.2 also. Time to upgrade Massartlonline.org again.