Wrapping up BlogHer 2008 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a quick video interview I did with Jory Des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer, on Saturday night as the fourth annual women bloggers’ conference was ending. Jory talks about some of the highlights of the gathering, which drew about 1,100 attendees. The lighting at the Westin […]
Photos of BlogHer 2008
I was at BlogHer only six hours on Saturday so didn’t have time to do my usual shoot-everything-in-sight routine. But still managed to capture a few nice images of the fourth annual women blogger’s conference. I especially liked the shot above of Catherine Connors with her baby son Jasper. Here are all the photos on […]
Coming: High-resolution, gigapixel photos
A panorama of the Harmandir Sahib, informally referred to as The Golden Temple or Temple of God, in Amritsar, India, taken with the GigaPan camera system. (Readers with Flash: Zoom in and explore the image using the tools above.) Credit: Matt Deans. NY Times: Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot. Excerpt: A new, inexpensive robotic […]
Parody of social network sites
CurrentTV has a great parody of social networking services, including MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Second Life. "You cannot escape the lure of social networking!" Thanks to Mark Glaser for the pointer.
Visualizing text and data with Many Eyes
Visualization tool: ManyEyes from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Future of Civic Media conference at the MIT Media Lab in June, one of the best presentations came from the co-creator of Many Eyes. Here’s a 7-minute video interview I did with Fernanda B. Viegas, research staff member of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab in Cambridge, […]