Jun
30
Ever wondered what’s inside your camera? An exhibit at the German Technology Museum in Berlin shows a variety of cameras and lenses, all sliced neatly down the middle, so you can see their inner workings, in this photo gallery in Gadget Lab.
Jun
30
Tags to the World
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My first encounter with tagging was on Flickr. I discovered Flickr a few years ago when a colleague and I were chatting about emerging “Web 2.0″ websites. He thought Flickr’s photo sharing interface was a classic example. On Flickr people add descriptive “tags” to their photos. Two people walking on a beach might be tagged: beach, ocean, john, jane, sand, water, vacation, happy, and blue. At first I was bewildered. Tags seemed so disorganized, unstructured, and random. I didn’t understand why people bothered adding tags. How did they hope to use them?
Today I’m a tagging junkie. I primarily tag blog posts and web pages. What may seem like a primitive, even pointless personal filing system is becoming the “connective tissue” of the entire web.
Tags help manage information, but that’s just the beginning. They also enable collaboration, create opportunities for discovery, extend value through sharing, and I believe will impact the future of search.
If you’ve taken my advice to begin subscribing to blogs via RSS, adding tagging to your web 2.0 tool box is critical next step.
Jun
18
Turn up the drama in your snapshots by ditching the bright colors and going with moody black and white. You can get some great black-and-white results using just about any digital camera by following these simple tips. In Wired’s How-To Wiki.
Jun
10
Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
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Special Envoy of the Secretary of State for Wildlife Trafficking Issues Bo Derek discusses efforts to stop illegal trafficking in wildlife with Department Spokesman Sean McCormack.
Jun
6
Thieves who stole a tourist’s digital camera got caught when they took photos of themselves with the stolen goods — and, unbeknownst to them, the camera’s internal WiFi SD card uploaded the photos to the owner’s PC.
Jun
5
The upgraded version of Flip’s popular, inexpensive video camera, the Flip Mino, has an improved look, slightly better controls and a rechargable battery pack instead of a slot for AA batteries. We put it through its paces in Gadget Lab.