Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Links in the spirit of Thanksgiving
I've been holding off for a good, long post on various things, but I think in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I will offer a smorgasboard of interesting links.
- F is for Firefox, Flock, and Flickr. I had planned a much longer post about this and maybe it will happen. In the meantime, if you don't already use Firefox, the web browser, you should. 2.0 just came out and with it, a very spiffy extension for citations called Zotero. I haven't run this through its full paces yet, but it looks interesting. You can use it on or offline. I hope to play with it more soon. Flock is another mozilla-based browser. It has blogging, tagging and other tools built in, including a connection to Flickr, the photo sharing tool. One of the coolest new things about Flickr is geotagging, which allows you to place of photo in its geographical location. Check it out from the "explore" page.
- MediaCommons and the Future of the Book. makingMediaCommons is the planning site for what will be MediaCommons, an online peer-reviewed media studies journal. The Institute for the Future of the Book is dedicated to exploring what the Internet and networked communication means for the book. As they say: "The printed page is giving way to the networked screen. The Institute for the Future of the Book seeks to chronicle this shift, and impact its development in a positive direction."
- From InsideHigherEd, an interesting article on YouTube and a report on Information Literacy.
- A discourse on academic blogging--well worth reading all the way through.
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Speaking about "geotagging": do you know locr?
locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don't know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.
For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.
Use the "Show in Google Earth" button to view your photos in Google Earth.
With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.
Have a look at www.locr.com.
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locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don't know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.
For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.
Use the "Show in Google Earth" button to view your photos in Google Earth.
With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.
Have a look at www.locr.com.
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