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Friday, August 25, 2006
Friday Link Harvest
Welcome to the post-vacation edition of Da Friday Link Harvest.
Photo by TheCoco via Flickr
In the real world it's my favorite time of year. I harvest tomatoes. And eat them every day.
Taking two weeks off from blogging was just terrible. I mean, how much porch sitting, book reading, beaching, and road tripping can a girl handle? At last - at long last - I'm back in my natural habitat.
Steve Garfield sent a nice welcome back and chastised me for not linking to my entire Flickr Photostream. Well, I did publish a few shots from vacation. But you people don't really want to see my family photos, right? Or maybe you do. Hey, I can see where Steve's coming from. He's gone all in.
He and his wife Carol do The Carol and Steve Show videoblog. They do things like taste wine out of a box and try to figure out if there's an animal in the refrigerator. Things you wouldn't think I'd watch.
And in his latest Vlog Soup, which highlights videoblogs all around the web, he focuses on collaboration. It will give you a great taste of the creative explosion going on out there, now that video technology is democratized.
Blogs are like reality TV. They're about regular people and all the ordinary and extraordinary things they do. It's surprisingly involving.
Speaking of Flickr, Yahoo! just announced on their blog that they will be adding Flickr photos into Yahoo! search results. The blog posting is headlined "It's a Flickr Moment!"
Now, in my post about Flickr this week, I mentioned that my grandfather worked at Kodak his whole life. So yeah, he'd probably be quite surprised to learn that the Kodak Moment has been usurped by the Flickr Moment. But it's true. I don't own any Kodak cameras, I don't use their photo service and film is a distant memory.
As for Flickr photos being searched in Yahoo!, it was only a matter of time according to Thomas Hawk who really knows how to take some beautiful shots. Hawk works for Flickr competitor Zooomer. Click here to see how Zooomer uses geotagging so you can see where photos are taken.
Boston is losing the talents of Andy Carvin who blogs that he's moving to Washington D.C. to take a job at NPR where he will be the one responsible for bringing Web 2.0 to that venerable institution.
Andy is the founding editor of the Digital Divide Network, an online community of more than 9,000 educators, community activists, policymakers and business leaders in over 130 countries working to find solutions to the digital divide. I've covered him on the Filter here and there. Honestly, I don't know what I'd do without NPR. It will be great to see what Andy will bring to it.
Louise Grisdale writes to tell about LongTermClients.com a greeting card fulfillment service for professionals. Love your clients? Send 'em a cahd.
Harrison Wise emails about the maiden launch of the Blogmobile. To help spread the word about celebrity blog portal ChatWithAStar.com, the Blogmobile rode around NYC on August 7th allowing fans stop in and blog with their favorite celebs or pro-athlete.
Bryan Person writes to remind everyone that PodCamp Boston is happening at Bunker Hill Community College September 9-10. It's a FREE meetup for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and new media types of all stripes. Register now.
Jill Totenberg writes to remind me that CFO magazine is the only business magazine left in Boston.
Tom Curran points to the RSStroom. Don't waste that time in the bathroom ever again. RSS feeds printed right on your toilet paper. Funny. And let's hope it's a hoax.
Stephanie Norton links us to Radiosherpa, a real time audio and visual guide to HD radio. Stephanie was one of the first employees at the original Napster and the other founders are two MIT Media Lab grads and a former venture capitalist. Radio is being fragmented like crazy out there. Sirius, XM, HD, etc. It's crumbelieveable as Stephen Colbert says.
In my Daily Candy Boston this week I noticed Cambridge-based Hindsight Media was featured. They produce high quality videos that document and celebrate the lives of individuals, families, and organizations. Sounds like a good service idea. I mean we all can do this stuff ourselves...except we don't have the time.
For those of you that have been following my iPod problems, here's an update. I took my dead iPod to the Apple Store. And they pronounced it dead indeed. And they gave me a new one on the spot. If it had died after it's one-year birthday, I would have had to pay $49 I think. For now, I'm a happy customer. But iPods are still on notice for me.
At least my new Dell laptop wasn't subject to the battery recall leaving me safe to assume it won't suddenly burst into flames and burn my whole house down.
