November 2006 Posts
Adding Visual Interest To Your Blog With Photos
This screencast demonstrates how to use Flickr photosharing and the Flock browser to add photos to a WordPress blog (or any blog or web page, really). Flock makes it dead-simple to upload, tag, and post photos. You can probably download the browser, sign up for Flickr and post photos to you blog faster than you can watch this video (about 6 minutes). Let me know what you think or if there are any tough spots.
Download the Screencast (in stunning 760x440 WIDEscreen!)
I mention in this video that we will be launching an Instructr site soon. That's true, but I don't know when, and we are still trying to figure out what we will be offering. If you want to see anything else demonstrated, like if you want to teach your boss how to subscribe to RSS feeds, I would be happy to oblige. I am just sort of doing these as they come up until we come up with some cirricula.
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Darren Arnofsky's The Fountain
Boing Boing recently made a post about Darren Arnofsky's first film in more than 6 years, The Fountain (Apple Trailers). They were pointing out the fact that the space scenes were generated without using CGI, using liquid suspensions and other real-life techniques to get an analog look to things.
You can see samples of 4 of these effects at the Official Flash Site for the film. Very otherworldly, very 80's -- think Krull. I don't know why they chose to make that the official site. There is no information about the film at all, no way to send it to your friends, not even a mention of the title or actors. I guess they figure it can be viral even if they don't push viral? I wouldn't doubt if this has been on Digg. You can also download a screen saver of the undulating swirling goo from the site. Now, if it said "The Fountain, hitting theaters this November", that would probably be a good thing. Somehow I don't think it does.
P.S. Shameless plug: If you click over to Amazon to buy The Fountain
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A Very Dem-Centric Way To Hack The Publishing System
Ever since I met Gina, I have been trying to be more hip to the sustainable, green, and otherwise eco-friendly life. It is really hard right now, and it shouldn't be. Things like An Inconvenient Truth and this brand new book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
While reading We Make Money Not Art, I heard about this book, and WorldChanging's efforts to hack the publishing system. I realize now that I'm writing this post that I was about 3 hours early. I guess it's the thought that counts.
On November first, at eleven minutes after eleven a.m. (Pacific time), please go to Amazon and buy the book.
Better still, go to Amazon and buy the book on the first, and in the meantime blog, email, talk up the book and do whatever you can to encourage everyone who you think cares about sustainability, innovation and social change, everyone who wants more solutions in the public debate, to join you on buying the book on 11/1 at 11:11 a.m. Please help spread the word.
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