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Thomas Hawk
Quiet Observer of Modern Nihilism with Box that Captures Light
Coincidently - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Alex, Ryan Turner, stern and 80 other people liked this
Real creative angle - nice shot.
- Blake Caldwell
yeah
- 2ndmoon
great shot, unreal
- Geer
Amazing shot TH. Loverly!
- Chris Nixon
Not to be repetitive, but that's amazing!
- Michael Fidler
thanks all. it was such an amazing work of art to shoot and a sculpture which answers the question as to why God created the 14mm ultra wide lens.
- Thomas Hawk
This must be saved in DMU, it's fan-f*****g-tastic!
- Rene Wirtz
heh, DMU saved it. Barely though.
- Thomas Hawk
Good, but still too many deletes for my taste. This is the reason why I unjoined DMU and have not responded to your invite yet: I see to many deletes for completely illogical reasons by photographers who can't make a good shot if they tried. Meh ...
- Rene Wirtz
Haha, yeH dmu can be a bit critical most of the time. A good albiet harsh and crass group of photographers
- Thomas Hawk
via iPhone
I don't mind criticism, at all, but quite a lot of what I see is nothing but misplaced arrogance, or envy, or just being randomly contra, and not constructive at all.
- Rene Wirtz
that is an amazing shot
- Lorenz Sell
Awsome!
- Mark Williamson
via BuddyFeed
![[v.2]](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1121/1460272948_cb23a7463c_s.jpg "[v.2]")
Highest national unemployment rate in 26 years. 9.5%. Worse than expected with market selling off. How soon until it gets to 10%?
Steven Perez, Geoff Schultz, John and 5 other people liked this
Very soon.
- Cristo™
AP: Obama says he's "very, very concerned." The press is going to make a huge deal about this number when it goes into double digits.
- Thomas Hawk
You'll overtake Europe, yeah!
- Jérôme Flipo
Does anyone know how this employment number calculation compares to in the 30s? In particular, the way unemployment benefits are factored in. I'm guessing true unemployment is much, much higher.
- Cristo™
rate was 4.8% in Feb last year.
- Thomas Hawk
According to what I have read so far, unemployment peaked at 24.9% in 1933. I don't know if the number was calculated the same way as now.
- John
Jérôme, from what I've read the European numbers are calculated differently and aren't comparable
- RAPatton
I don't care, Europe wins this one :)
- Jérôme Flipo
One way of looking at the numbers: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj...
- John
John, I believe the numbers were calculated differently. As for the current numbers: just know that if you exhaust your unemployment benefits and take a part time job as a grocery clerk 20hrs a week at $8 an hour because you can't find anything else, you're no longer unemployed. Yay =/ Granted, you'll be counted as 'under employed', but those are not included in the 9.5% figure above. Also not included: people who've stopped looking for work.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
From what I know, Europe has higher unemployment rate but gar less insecure/crappy jobs.
- Jérôme Flipo
Soon. Hopefully we will see an uptick soon.
- Nation Hahn
In the service industry there is a great rate of insecure/crappy jobs (ie.e greeters at Walmart), which in Europe is referred to as hidden unemployment. These kind of jobs are very limited in number in Europe. If you would take the hidden unemployment into account the US may very well have a 20+% unemployment rate.
- Rene Wirtz
Tina, I'm sure you're right about the numbers. I just posted them since Cristo asked. But I don't think the current recession has quite reached the breakdown levels seen in the Great Depression. Of course, that might only be because there are more safeguards now.
- John
Well if we are still losing jobs at a rate of 600,000 a month and we have roughly 300,000,000 population then ~2.5 months
- Geoff Schultz
1933 was also 4 years after the stock market initially started its decline John. If Consumer confidence and spending does not kick in in a big way soon we will be on the ropes as the government will not be able to continue to print trillions of dollars without risking an enormous sell off of their existing debt.
- Geoff Schultz
Monthly unemployment numbers come out on Thursday. Expecting 9.6%. How soon until it hits 10%? It will make a lot of headlines when it breaks into double digits.
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as goes the unemployment rate so goes credit card default rates.
- Thomas Hawk
I assume you are referring to US numbers. We are already at ~11.3% unemployment in CA!
- Jeff P. Henderson
right, yeah, this is the National number.
- Thomas Hawk
(As with the faux-inflation numbers), the reported number is very sanitized. True US unemployment is already well into the double digits.
- Anthony Citrano
welcome back to the Carter years.
- Thomas
Last Will Of Michael Joseph Jackson - July 1, 2009 - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...
April Buchheit, Dan Hsiao, Alex Sauceda and 8 other people liked this
"JULY 1--A will signed in 2002 by Michael Jackson stipulates that his assets be placed in a family trust and that his mother be appointed the guardian of his three offspring. The will, a copy of which you'll find below, lists three executors, including lawyer John Branca and music industry executive John McClain. The will makes no provision for bequests to Jackson's father or any of his eight siblings, and a court filing indicates that beneficiaries of the Michael Jackson Family Trust are limited to his children, mother Katherine, and six relatives, including his brother Tito's three sons. Branca and McClain believe that the value of Jackson's estate "exceeds $500 million" and consists of "non-cash, non-liquid assets," including Jackson's share of lucrative music royalty rights. In the case that Jackson's mother Katherine were to predecease him (or was unable or unwilling to serve as guardian), Jackson stipulated that singer Diana Ross should be appointed guardian of his minor children. The "Last Will of Michael Joseph Jackson" was executed in Los Angeles on July 7, 2002. (8 pages)"
- Thomas Hawk
via Bookmarklet
There were all these rumors that he died intestate. Not much chance a superstar with so many lawyers at his disposal didn't have a will. None of those lawyers would ever work again if that were the case. But my hunch is there's a good chance one or two wills from later than 2002 will emerge.
- Stephen Mack
I'd assume that even if more wills show up that his assets were properly titled to the Family Trust which would exempt them from probate and pretty much render future wills insignificant. I'd imagine the estate taxes on his estate will be large. He gets a $3.5 million estate tax exemption and everything over that the Govt. gets 45 cents on the dollar roughly. It will be interesting to...
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- Thomas Hawk
Why is this being reported? This is crazy.
- tehKenny
God, this is like a bad bar exam question. It'll probably show up in the next couple of years on the California bar exam as an essay question, I'm sure.
- Brian Chang
Head Case: 2009 - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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Cool show I found recently via my TiVo recommendations...
- Anthony Citrano
LOVE this show. The best episode this season is probably where the Doc "gets a gay."
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
FriendFeed's changed their recommended users when you sign up for a new account. The default screen that Tamar showed yesterday with the most popular 32 FF users now only shows the most popular 12. Now you can't just be popular you have to be *super* popular!
Micah Wittman, (jeff)isageek, Hutch Carpenter and 58 other people liked this
Off the FriendFeed recommended list now: Steve Rubel, Bret Taylor, Jeremiah Owyang, Evan Williams, Fred Wilson, Tim O'Reily, Louis Gray, Thomas Hawk, Paul Buchheit, justine, Guy Kawasaki, Amber Mac, Chris Messina, Darren Rowse, Ed Dale, Jeremy Zawodny, dan faber, Marshall Kirkpatrick, will wheaton, Jeff Jarvis.
- Thomas Hawk
Tamar's screen from yesterday: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Thomas Hawk
This list needs to go and in the short-term a very simple list could take it's place. Simply average a person's popularity ranking with their activity ranking. I'd also say that it would make sense to show more than the top 12. I'd show the top 80 actually or maybe even the top 100.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm still not convinced this is the ideal list. There's a large percentage of those Web 2.0 personalities who do not interact at all with FF. They merely aggregate their feeds here. That ain't community involvement.
- Tamar Weinberg
Tamar, this list is no better than the old one really. It's just more exclusive. The problem is that the current recommended user list does not value FF community involvement at all. It's kind of actually insulting to the people who really do in fact contribute and live here. An averaging of the most popular with the most active would create a far more vibrant list reflective of what FF...
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- Thomas Hawk
I agree Tamar. It is about those that are actually involved, not those that just aggregate... maybe a sub list for those that comment as opposed to those that just post. The majority of those that have been removed do not get involved, although Bret Taylor might be considered one of the involved. Yeah you too TH, oh and Paul Buchheit.
- Travis Koger
Putting up a list of the most popular is simply lazy and is not what FF should be about. Feeding into some sort of web celebrity A list is distasteful. Certainly it makes sense for FF to recommend users. It's also important that they do it objectively rather than subjectively like Twitter. The answer is actually quite simple. Average activity/popularity and the popular users who don't...
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- Thomas Hawk
I bet someone at FF could write this script in less than an hour to change this. If they don't change it they should in the spirit of transparency at least explain why they won't.
- Thomas Hawk
Travis, I wouldn't recommend a "sub list." These users should be primarily highlighted. The "sub list" should be those who are "also on FriendFeed (but do not contribute to FF itself)" ... of course, the parenthetical statement is mine alone.
- Tamar Weinberg
I don't think that this is a replacement for the original list, Thomas. I see what you have posted, but I don't think this is the final in any way. I don't know why you have an abbreviated list, but I don't think this is a result of any changes in the last 24 hours.
- Louis Gray
Louis, sign out and sign up for a new account and see for yourself. You'll get this same thing that I do. I used to get the list that Tamar posted yesterday. Now I get this.
- Thomas Hawk
Tamar, yeah I agree, a sub list is not optimal, I actually meant the other way around, sub list for the popular main list for the conversationlists.
- Travis Koger
This is kind of stupid if you can't pick what your interests are, etc. Why just give a list of people with the most followers? Why not try to provide a better experience, instead of just *more*.
- Steve Lynch
via twhirl
Steve, exactly, which is why this list needs to go. Given that it would be so easy to change it, the only reason why it won't change would be if FF philosophically believes that this is in fact a better way to promote members. If they do in fact believe that then I think they owe the community a response as to why. If not then they should change this list in the short-term to one that averages popularity/activity for now and come up with something better down the road.
- Thomas Hawk
Totally agree that it would not take the FF guys much time to get this sorted and would once again provide yet another better function than THAT other service! ;)
- Travis Koger
The whole concept of a fixed list of recommended users is poor. It creates competition inside whats supposed to be a community platform and puts the wrong incentives for participation in place. The system should be smart enough to recommend based on some type of interest/content, not just be a big silly popularity contest. niche niche niche...
- Jeremy Toeman
I don't always find myself interested in everything Kol posts, but he posts a crapload of good content. He should be highlighted. Narrowing by interests should not be a determining feature. People should follow those awesome contributors and then figure out how to use FF -- then they can assess who else to follow. By following Veronica or Loic, for example, they won't even know what...
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- Tamar Weinberg
Jeremy, right, and in the longer-term FF should figure out a better way to match interests with new users. If a new person hates photography, I'm probably not a good match for them.
- Thomas Hawk
Kol should definitely be highlighted, Tamar, and he would be if you averaged activity/popularity. Louis Gray probably belongs on this list more than anyone currently on it except Scoble. If you averaged popularity with activity he'd probably be number 2 right behind Scoble.
- Thomas Hawk
Yup. Louis one of FF's biggest community evangelists and they don't even seem to realize it. (I am sure he knows I always thought he deserved to be highlighted.)
- Tamar Weinberg
@Tamar in all candor, I don't think the FF staff has a specific vision of their own service. don't get me wrong, they are smart, nice, etc, but I feel there's a lack of clarity about what they are building, who they are building it for, etc. and the further the site roams randomly down this aimless journey, the more the opportunity window is closing IMHO.
- Jeremy Toeman
@Thomas @Tamar - I disagree, they shouldn't be highlighted just because they are highly active. that's NOT a good enough reason. it should be based on the NEW USER's interests, not based on the power user's...
- Jeremy Toeman
and Louis was highlighted yesterday Tamar, but no longer today, but yesterday's system was also bad as you noted in your post. Unless FF includes a component to reflect activity, this list will be at odds with their community. They should recognize this and correct it. Twitter's taken a huge amount of heat over the unfairness of their list. A list that averaged popularity/activity would be far fairer than one that simply recognizes subscribers alone.
- Thomas Hawk
Jeremy, absolutely, they should be highlighted based on a new users interests. But sometimes you don't know what those interests are and making someone fill out a survey of interests might be a barrier to easy adoption of the service. Certainly though as FF gets to know what you like, they could reshape this list to best reflect your interests. But absent that data, with a blank slate new user, presenting a list which averaged activity/popularity would be a better list than one based on popularity alone.
- Thomas Hawk
An option to list interests that brought up a short list of contributors that share those interests, irrespective of how popular by numbers of followers they are, would be a good place to start. Just because you have a gazillion followers doesn't mean I'm going to find you interesting.
- Gilbert Harding
Jeremy, that's where I disagree. People have varied interests. I used Kol as an example earlier in this discussion to highlight exactly how eclectic our interests are. FF does not survey your interests at sign-up, nor should they have to. If they use a guy who contributes a lot (read: is active), chances are there's *something* there in their stream that will be interesting to a new...
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- Tamar Weinberg
No worries on my part. I have no desire to be on that list. I like being little old me. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
a list of interests would seem to make sense, but adding a step to the sign up process *might* discourage signups. maybe not though. but building that sort of a system would probably take more time and thinking as to the best way to do it. In the short-term though simply averaging activity/popularity would change this list dramatically and could be a stop-gap solution until a better system was built.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas makes a good point, but I don't think we really need to focus on adding a new "interests" feature, to be perfectly honest. They can work with what they have already. "Popularity" isn't the word I'd use here. I am one of the topmost followed users here and I know so many people who are far more deserving of being highlighted as a top contributor on this service.
- Tamar Weinberg
I wonder why they changed it from 32 to 12. I wonder if it was to drop Evan Williams off the list.
- Thomas Hawk
I would love to see FF improve the page, too. A list of interests and the popular/active people made available with the click of one button would be great. Additionally it would be nice to see a list of the most popular threads and rooms; Plus a link to the faqs.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
via BuddyFeed
100% agreed with Tamar's first comment here about the list.
- Brandon Mendelson
@thomas ive' looked at the stats, they are growing slowly, which implies general product dissatisfaction. so adding a step to signup to create a better product overall is worth it...
- Jeremy Toeman
I've touched on this in response to a similar SUL thread from Scobie Doo... basically, each SUL should be tailored to each user based on things like content (as Jeremy pointed out) as well as FOF (friend of friend) relationships, reputation analysis/tracking, profiles, etc. ... there is a whole new field of "friend management" brewing... and SUL's are definitely a part of that...
- Fred Davis
Agree the list needs to change, a combo of most popular/active would be ideal, perhaps randomised (20 users from the top 100). Fairly simple list. Users who post only their Twitter stream are not the best people to demonstrate FriendFeed's capabilities and new users will find it hard to interact with those users who don't actually use the service a lot if ever.
- Kol Tregaskes
I like the randomized idea even more Kol. It would also be much more inclusive. Maybe have a list of 50 or so users on the suggest page and have them randomly pulled form the top 500 FF users when averaging their popularity/activity. That in fact would be super slick.
- Thomas Hawk
Yep. Also, I've exchanged a few mails with FF and have suggested some sort of tutorial for new users as at the moment new users are dumped on the home feed with virtually no clue as to what to do next. I read a lot of users saying "just joined, now what?". So this needs to change, FF tell me they are working on something - cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Also, on Tamar's thread it was suggested the list be a combo of the most popular/liked/commented on/active users. Either way it shouldn't be just the most popular! With pretty much no effort some FF users are getting on this suggestion list and gaining lots more new users.
- Kol Tregaskes
You also have to be a geek. Lame.
- Dawn
I dislike the web 2.0 personality slant of this list. If you're trying to win over a new user and you want them to stick around, don't inundate them with repetitive tech noise. Have some variety. For example, throw in Jess Lee to get some fashion chatter in there. Thomas Hawk for some photography and pretty pictures (which will help show off the photo thumbnail features). An initial spate of lots of tech/web noise will probably not help new users see the value in FriendFeed.
- EricaJoy
I'm showing 30 people in my list right now FWIW
- Richard Walker
Richard, that is because you are an existing user. It appears that this is just for new users.
- Travis Koger
via iPhone
RE: the deleted users: They should keep Louis and you on there, but no one else on that list participates on FF regularly. I think it's necessary to have active users on that list, because new users will easily find other active users to follow by FOAF. The way to keep people interested is activity, not popularity.
- Trish R
Yeah, but the list should include the RIGHT active people, Trish (and I have no clue how you would algorithmically pick the RIGHT people). If a new person who's primarily in to social media connects to friendfeed and gets the "actives" list from ffholic, they will be completely underwhelmed (however the LOLcats lover who just joined would be quite happy). That's what makes the challenge interesting.
- Alex Scoble
I'm not for everyone, nor do I want to be. I'm doing this for fun, not to "be a brand" and I'd like to keep it that way. :)
- Alex Scoble
Why would Wil Wheaton ever be on any recommended FF list? I don't think he participates in FF at all, right?
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
via fftogo
Correct. I think it's pretty easy to see who should NOT be included in the list, but picking who SHOULD is much tougher.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, FF absolutely should not be in the business of *picking* who should be on this list. Even as much as it makes sense for Louis to be on a list like this over say will wheaton, the problem is once you turn this list into anything other than an automated list you start immediately alienating people. That's exactly what Twitter did. They created a subjective staff picked list which is...
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- Thomas Hawk
Whether they do it using a human or by algorithm, they are picking. I think it would be fairly easy for them to write an algorithm to determine who shouldn't be on the list, but a lot harder to come up with a good algorithm for who should be on the list.
- Alex Scoble
keeping the list objective and formulaic exempts FF staff from allegations of bias. It's not perfect but it's better for them to be able to point to an algorithm than personal choice. The forumula just needs to be tweaked ever so slightly and you'd have a significantly better list. The very simple act of averaging popularity with activity would create a list that i think that 99% of the...
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- Thomas Hawk
And what did your app determine, Anna?
- Alex Scoble
personally I think 12 is too small a number. I'd like to see them put 80 on this list but I too would be interested in what your algorithm produced Anna.
- Thomas Hawk
Tad, will wheaton was on the list because it is simply based on who has the most followers. When you sign up for FF it asks you if you want to add your Twiiter/Facebook/etc. contacts. What this means is that those that are super popular on Twitter will be the ones that FF ends up recommending. Since adding in the import your Twitter contacts to FF feature the rank of the popular FF users who are popular Twitter users has jumped.
- Thomas Hawk
ask threes imple questions when people sign up... then give them suggested users based off of those. Situation solved
- Holden
1) Do you like social media? 2) Do you like LOLcats? 3) Do you like to argue?
- Alex Scoble
general questions Alex
- Holden
Those were funny questions, Holden...although a No, yes, yes response would definitely point them my way. :)
- Alex Scoble
I did an experiment last night on what it was like to be a new user again. I did it with my original account, which I rediscovered yesterday. I was going to write something about what I learned later, but this change is the exact opposite of what needs to be done in order to improve the new user experiencee. I hope it's only temporary.
- Michael Fidler
I meant to put a lol Alex :) been writing all day :S
- Holden
How the HELL did I make that cut? :P
- l0ckergn0me
teh only thing that irritates me about both twitter and FF lists is that some of these suggested users are just pipes. I would rather have suggested users who are popular and active
- Holden
Holden, and averaging popularity with activity would remove 100% of the pipes from this list.
- Thomas Hawk
I suppose the pipes on the list aren't arguing though, if they are even aware
- Holden
Not that there's anything wrong with the people on this list, but any list which doesn't include people like Mona, or Kol has something wrong with the way it was formulated
- Michael Fidler
As soon as you say "any list that doesn't include ..." I shut you off. Fail.
- Joel Bennett
+1 Joel. Everyone had different preferences. That's why it's like Alex said, there's no right formula to find recommended users for each different user.
- Trish R
I said like; Kol and Mona are just examples of what's wrong with this list.
- Michael Fidler
:)
- Susan Beebe
if you averaged popularity/activity Mona and Kol would both be on this list.
- Thomas Hawk
Great!! that is a list I think properly reflects coolness on FF :)
- Susan Beebe
This list can't possibly be the final result. I'm for rotating it but with people that engage FF directly at a minimum once a day .... Thoughts?
- Charlie Anzman
I like your idea on engagement Charlie. Friendfeed should not just be about the one way "geek" transmitters.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I agree Charlie. From the graphic there appears to be no logic to the recommendation, three never interact here. I do think there should be some general randomness to a favorites list - I'd like to see new people and not just the same 'celebs' or those with the most number of posts or comments.
- jcunwired
what JC and Charlie said.
- Anthony Citrano
Cooliris Just Became The Coolest New Way to Browse Flickr - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Nice!
- l0ckergn0me
been waiting for this for a long time. Now you can seamlessly browse Cooliris in a browser tab enabling you to cmd-click / ctl-click images and have them load in background tabs to fave/comment/etc later. This new release is really great news.
- Thomas Hawk
About time!
- Simon Wicks
LOL, they don't have a version that works with 3.5 currently that I can find. So you have to wait a little longer on that. I love the app though, and was so excited to see this.
- James Fuller
Humm. Seems that its only works in browser view, if you hit the fullscreen view and do the command click it closes out and goes back to normal. Still opens the tab behind though. So, almost there for me :)
- Simon Wicks
and i just realised you said browse in a browser tab... Silly me :(
- Simon Wicks
I am using it in 3.5.
- Kreg Steppe
BTW, Thomas...have you used the Slideshow on Flickr to browse contacts? I would do that and fav from it.
- Kreg Steppe
I have Kreg, this is far better than Slideshow. The ability to increase both size and speed with the mouse is massive. I've seen nothing on the web more visually enticing for photos than Cooliris.
- Thomas Hawk
Kreg, I'll have to see if I can get it to update then.
- James Fuller
I agree Thomas. I have used Coloris in the past. I love it...and it is more useful now.
- Kreg Steppe
via email
Thanks for the info. I had it once but didn't find it useful, the new version looks much more useful. About the hyperlink: if it takes you to a page that tries to get you to use cooliris than it best be used in moderation. When photoplow started up and encouraged chatters to post comments to photos with the line "seen in a discussion on photoplow" there were spam complaints in the help...
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- Theresa
Yeah, I hear you Theresa, but browsing a pool/set/etc using it is just so damn beautiful and now that they've got the cmd/click piece down it makes it fully operable as a way to both browse photos and interact. It might be hard for me to resist posting links to great sets/pools/etc. with it. Here's another GREAT view, the DMU saved photos pool: http://www.cooliris.com/tab...
- Thomas Hawk
I tried it once before and found its operation kind of clunky, even though it is very visually appealing. I'll have to give the new version another try.
- John
John the new version feels smooth as a silk.
- Thomas Hawk
This is a step in the right direction. It's still a bit clunky on my iMac Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz.
- Chris Luckhardt
I love this app, It makes looking at images much more fun :)
- Matthew Marley
Now if I could just get it to default back to fullscreen instead of a tab, I'd be real happy. Been using Cooliris for a long time. Changed the way I browse the web.
- mike fabio
Thx for this, cooliris is a wonderful tool!
- timepilot
i used cooliris back in the day, but i think ill need to install this again...
- Cassidy
Thanks for posting, Thomas! Good to have you back on Cooliris - we hope we can keep rolling out releases that you and everyone else will love :) And for those of you who may have been experience FF3.5 compatibility problems with Cooliris, please go back to our site and download Cooliris again. That should take care of any problems.
- Cooliris
For pages that have 2 Media RSS feeds, Cooliris 1.9 would find the one with id="gallery". That feature was handy because you could have one blog-style feed with media and another slideshow-optimized feed. The feature is missing in 1.10 and 1.11. Will it return in a future release?
- Bruce Lewis
via fftogo
I must be missing something... how do i integrate flickr into cooliris? as in, how do i view a photostream or set?
- thekillingjoke
Bruce, not sure at the moment, but we'll be keeping that in mind. I'll submit it as a feature request!
- Cooliris
nevermind... i see how to do it now.
- thekillingjoke
I absolutely LOVE Cool Iris -- secret: make your PowerPoint slides image files and zip thru your preso with Cool Iris and watch your audience's jaws drop on the conf. rm table :)
- Susan Beebe
Impressive. Great way to view photos on Facebook too.
- Mike Doeff
They still haven't implemented the one or two features which I consider most important. 1. The ability to Fav (on Flickr) a photo without leaving the Cooliris interface. 2. The ability to comment on a photo (on Flickr) without having to leave the Cooliris interface. Having to bounce in and out of Cooliris, even if just between browser tabs is very disruptive.
- TranceMist
TranceMist, hear you loud and clear - will also add to feature request. We love your feedback/ideas about Cooliris so keep it coming! :)
- Cooliris
Is there a way to make Cooliris open a picture in a new tab just by control clicking the main picture? The only way I can get the new tab feature to work is to control click on the tiny arrow at lower right...
- Sam Posten
NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Goes After New York Camera Rip Off Stores - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Panel wants openly gay guardsman discharged - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
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"It's recommendation that the Army no longer recognize Choi as an officer must be approved by the First Army commander and the chief of the National Guard Bureau before Choi would be discharged. Choi's attorney, Maj. Roy Diehl, said the process could take weeks or up to a year. For now, Diehl said Choi, who was a grand marshal in Sunday's Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco, will "continue drilling" with his New York National Guard unit. Tuesday's decision was especially painful to gay leaders after watching President Obama preach patience Monday at a ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that are considered the birth of the modern gay rights movement. "I know that every day that passes without a resolution is a deep disappointment to those men and women who continue to be discharged under this policy - patriots who often possess critical language skills and years of training and who've served this country well," Obama said Monday. He had continually pledged to overturn the law as a candidate."
- Thomas Hawk
via Bookmarklet
The Obama administration doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the Clinton administration, which took a major political beating when it tried to fulfill its campaign promise of overturning the gays-in-the-military ban shortly after Bill Clinton took office in 1993, political analysts say. That year, 44 percent of respondents to a Washington Post-ABC News poll said those who are openly gay should be allowed to serve in the military.
- Thomas Hawk
And the Ants Go Marching One By One - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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wow balance the move
- jolinarodriguez
TH, this is such an awesome shot.
- Ha3rvey
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buraKargın, Tyson Williams, JohnDu™ and 11 other people liked this
Love your photos - amazing!!!!
- Gerd Leonhard
mostly emma, plug1 and justinkorn faves here.
- Thomas Hawk
365 Portraits, The Book - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Tyson Williams, hiroshimo, James Myatt and 16 other people liked this
In 2007 Photographer Bill Wadman traveled around the United States and Europe with a single mission. Each day he photographed, edited and posted online a different portrait of a different person. It was a mammoth effort meticulously followed that resulted in one of the most authentic collection of portraits I’ve ever seen. The result, entitled simply 365 Portraits is a significant and beautiful collection of images. I was honored to have been included as a subject in Bill’s Project and think the photo that he took of me is one of the best I’ve ever seen. While Bill shot some famous people in his book (like Astronaut Buzz Aldrin) I found some of his most compelling portraits to be those of everyday people as part of their everyday lives. Here are some of my favorites:
- Thomas Hawk
These portraits are very impressive. It is hard enough just taking a good picture every day, but to take a great portrait of a different person each day for a year is just amazing. I'm very tempted by this book.
- Andy Roth
I bought mine earlier today. I think it's an interesting project with tremendous results and I think it's also a good way to support an artist directly financially while owning a very unique book by an emerging American photographer. Bill's still young and I think he has a huge future ahead of himself as a portrait artist and look forward to his future projects.
- Thomas Hawk
a couple of my favorites (note, the second link is NSFW) http://www.365portraits.com/index... http://www.365portraits.com/index...
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, thanks, I reserved a copy today. I'm looking forward to seeing Bill's work on print.
- Eric Thompson
BART 'N-word' bombshell waiting to go off - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
Derrick and Lars Clausen liked this
"Overlooked in the court hearing that ended in former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle being ordered tried for murder in the slaying of Oscar Grant was testimony about another officer's explosive outburst just 30 seconds before Grant was shot. One of the videos made by riders at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland early New Year's Day caught Officer Tony Pirone standing over the prone Grant and yelling, "Bitch-ass n-." Pirone and his attorney say he was parroting an epithet that Grant first hurled at him - though Grant's voice is not audible on the tape. The sound-enhanced tape shows Pirone delivering a shoulder chop to Grant and bringing him to the ground. Pirone can be heard saying twice, "Bitch-ass n-, right?""
- Thomas Hawk
via Bookmarklet
Oh great. Fan diddle tastic.
- Louis Gray
This just gets uglier.
- Derrick
This is an outrageous case, and I'm glad they indicted the officer. But it's not the defendant who said this -- it's another cop, who claims he was angrily repeating an insult hurled at him by the victim. That's consistent with the context of the transcript. I bet the defense moves to suppress this aspect of testimony on the grounds that it will be prejudicial to the defendant, and isn't germane to establishing his state of mind.
- Chris Baskind
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