Photography
Northern Voice ‘08 Begins
I will join the no doubt dozens of others that will be blogging about this event. Being my first one, however, perhaps I’ll have a slightly different perspective. Probably just the perspective of wondering where to go and what to do next…
Northern Voice 2008 is a “personal blogging and social media conference” held annually at the UBC Forestry building. It is a opportunity for the community to get together in either break-outs (Friday) or structured presentations (Saturday). Lots of representation from commercial sponsors (including some that I’d rather weren’t… not mentioning any names but they sound like wamcity ;)). Looking forward to Photocamp from Kris Krug, should be today but not sure when. Also very interested in Matt Mullenweg’s presentation tomorrow. Matt is the founder of Wordpress and is apparently an excellent speaker.
Like the rest of them, I will try to blog as we go. UBC Wireless is up (I’m there now, duh) so as long as the rest of the posters don’t hog the bandwidth I’ll be able to :p.
PicLens - Fullscreen Image Browser
Cooliris has created a really interesting image viewer add-on for your browser. PicLens is a full-screen viewer for multiple images, whether in slide-show format or in a “wall” of images that can be clicked, dragged, zoomed, etc.:
It is available for various browsers, including IE, Firefox and Safari. I have tried the IE and Firefox ones and I can say that the IE one is a disappointment when compared to the Firefox add-on. IE only offers a 2D view and a slideshow, while the Firefox version really shows off the wall function (Flickr credit to t-dot-s-dot):
Download and install this add-on and go visit your favourite Flickr page, a Google Image search result, and more. They even have a Wordpress plugin so that it can be incorporated into a personal site as well.
New site
I’ve just created a new site called pocophotos.com. The idea with this site is to be a place (yet another) to view pictures about the Poco area. Right now John and I will be the main contributors, but I hope to grow that.
Honestly, more of an exercise than a site but hey if you do an exercise and end up with a site, so be it ;).
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