LA Times: Photographers find unwitting success with social media. Or, how pro-am and amateur photographers are attracting a following on Flickr and other photo-sharing sites (such as Richard Peters’ Spring lamb photo, above). My Flickr sets are here.
Archives for November 2008
Barack Obama’s use of social media
President-elect Barack Obama today began his pre-inauguration conversation with the American people by giving his first weekly radio address, which was also released as a YouTube video (above). In it he discusses the current economic crisis. Eric Shonfeld at TechCrunch: Obama to post fireside chats on YouTube. Brian Solis in today’s TechCrunch: Is Obama ready […]
Google Earth goes to ancient Rome
This doesn’t have much to do with social media, but I just love Google Earth, and now Google has put ancient Rome online. That’s right. You can now walk the streets of ancient Rome and see the Colosseum in all its glory. Amazing. From the Wired blog: The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in […]
Voices: Community stories in Tucson
Speaking of Woices, here’s a snippet from the latest NAMAC newsletter about Voices: VOICES offers young people in Tucson [Arizona] a safe space, positive relationships, and the skills training to document real-life stories. Youth who are creative, resilient, educated, and active citizens are youth who benefit themselves, their families, and our community now and in […]
Woices: a new oral information tool for travelers
David Ciudad Rodriguez passes along word of a new site from Spain (I think) called Woices. It’s a free internet service that allows people to create, share and consume “echoes”: audio records that are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object. Rodriguez says Woices’s ultimate goal is “to create a new […]