The headline changes in this release are:
I enjoyed this blog – it shares my interests in photography, design and inventions. I bought some of these clever items:
About 10 seconds after Pam Turner showed me how to thread her Spiral Eye Needles, I was an expert. It usually takes me longer to thread a needle than it does to sew a button, but it really is impressively easy with Pam’s invention.
via Inventor Portrait: Pam Turner – David Friedman Photography: Blog.
see his other blog also: http://www.ironicsans.com
discovered via Critical Mass 2009
An interesting article about a group that is trying to protect their neighborhood view of Mt. Fuji. New buildings keep being built taller and taller. The solution I propose? Just build a public park on top of each of those new buildings. Kind of like the public plaza or “sky lobby” in the new San Francisco Federal building. Easier to impose that kind of building code than force developers to scale back their projects.
“I can’t imagine Nippori without Mount Fuji,” Mr. Kaneko said. “But it is probably just a matter of time before another building appears that will block what’s left.”
via Tokyo Journal – Taking On Skyscrapers to Protect View of an ‘Old Friend’ – NYTimes.com.
An interesting take on the upcoming “Drupal Gardens”. It works well for WordPress and I’m sure a hosted solution will work well in growing the Drupal community also. I prefer the simplicity of WordPress unless there is a justification for the features of Drupal. But this could give me an excuse to use Drupal for simple sites also. I look forward to seeing how you deal with the limits of the WYSIWYG editor.
Not too long ago, Acquia announced Drupal Gardens – the SaaS-based Drupal-in-a-box. Drupal has been known to be difficult to implement, and to some degree to use. Drupal Gardens attempts to address both of these issues. And based on the video demo, it looks like Acquia has started to skin both cats.
This article evaluates why the interaction design of the project enabled it’s success …
There are lots of museums … looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online… The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty… In the first two years of its existence (Oct 2007 – now), the World Beach Project received more than 700 contributions…
via Museum 2.0: The World Beach Project: A Creative Contributory Project that Shines.
We have had some similar issues to deal with in the public-art project I am working on that is in a live beta test now: Our Oakland: Eastside Stories. Log in and leave a story. I am also starting work with the Oakland Museum of California on some interactive projects for their soon-to-be-launched Drupal-based website.
View the project itself.
I notice the museum uses “Percussion Rhythmyx“. Yet another CMS – there are so many.
10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy
From Dr. Mercola (What do you think about him? I never heard of him before.)
Facebook has over 300 million active users….
Dropbox has been really useful for me. check it out – available for iPhone now.
Access your Dropbox on the go. Download files for offline viewing. Sync photos and videos to your Dropbox. Share links to files in your Dropbox
via Dropbox – Get the Dropbox iPhone app – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy..
how to embed a flickr slideshow in your blog
Flickr now officially supports embedding (sharing) any group of images. But the method below can give you more control and eliminates the Flickr logo.
an animated explanation of how google builds it’s ‘street view’ into it’s maps service. street view works great on the iphone.
All these directories will help your SEO and Page Rank.
Yelp – they have a very strong presence in San Francisco.
Google local
Yahoo local
CitySearch which recently bought InsiderPages
JudysBook
SFstation Business Directory
If you have a specific product that can be promoted try to submit to Daily Candy
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