July 26, 2009

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Last December or January I posted a note to Facebook listing possible texts for my upcoming gradurate course, Information Arcgitecture, asking friends for comments and suggestions. I got great feedback, but because I am no longer using Facebook, I decided to try the same here. Writing for Electronic Communities meets once a week for 3 hours. [...]

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June 28, 2009

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I got up around 6:00am today (quite early for me) with a strong desire to take lots of photographs. So, that’s what I did—and I’m quiet pleased with how many of them turned out. This is nice; I haven’t been happy with the results of my last two or three outings. I think the poor [...]

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June 26, 2009

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Wired.com posted this video of photographer Clay Enos explaining how he takes portraits of random people on the street using just a white sheet of paper, his camera, and some chutzpah. One thing he doesn’t address is if he lets the people know where they might be able to see the image at a later [...]

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June 4, 2009

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The June 8, 2009, issue of the “new” Newsweek has a cover article called “Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures, & You” by Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert. The print version of the US edition has this cover photo Oprah: My scan of the image does not fully capture the problem, but compare this image with the [...]

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