Posts with keyword: flickr

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Self-Sovereign Blogging

Tue Feb 4 15:33:00 2020

The cloud is a fickle place that gives and takes. Self-sovereignty is the only path to autonomy and agency.
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Dealing with JSONP in KRL: Using the Flickr API

Tue May 10 14:45:00 2011

When I blog I like to put pictures, like the one to the right of this sentence, in the article when I can. My usual method is to use Flickr because I can find good pictures that have creative commons rights that allow me to use them on my blog. The problem is that after I find the picture, I need to create an image tag with the right size source image that links back to the Flickr picture for attribution purposes. Creating the tags to do that by hand is a pain, so I've created a simple Kynetx
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Reasons to Buy a Mac Mini

Thu Dec 27 14:59:00 2007

For Christmas, I bought a Sony XBR4 40" LCD TV from Amazon. I was thinking I ought to get an Apple TV to go with it, but then thought that a Mac Mini might be more versatile. While in the midst of indecision, Dave Winer made up my mind for me and Scoble put the icing on the cake. I'll get a Mac Mini. Dave's new product--not yet released--sounds like a fun convergence of a big, bright beautiful screen hanging on the wall and the Internet. The XBR4 already has a DVI input, so hooking up ought to be
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Visualizing Flickr Tags

Wed May 24 10:01:00 2006

This afternoon I popped into Andrew Tomkins' talk on Visualizing Tags over Time. The paper was nominated for a best paper award. The research looks at visualizing Flickr tags. Images and tags form a bi-partite graph that encourages "pivot browsing." Tag clouds represent the default way of visualizing tags. Tags are not fixed in time. Does the temporal structure lead to a representation that allows up to surf through time and pick a gestalt sense of what was happening over time? He demos a visualization that scans through the tags for each day, picks out representative tags and then
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Fishing Rivers of Information

Tue Dec 13 10:28:00 2005

Dave Winer has some comments about Flickr's use of RSS: I know I'm the last person to discover how clever Flickr's RSS is. Here's the story. People were adding me as a contact as I kept uploading folders of pictures from my backlog. I would get an email every time it happened. I wondered why. I wonder no more. I started adding them as my own contacts, slowly, a few days ago. Cool, when I'd go to my Flickr contacts page, I could see if Betsy or Rex, Tara or Stewart had uploaded some new pics. Excellent. Then yesterday
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