Digital Railroad Inc. today launched the first online archive system that gives the power of a large photo agency to individual photographers. Digital Railroad’s Web-based application services transform the individual photographer’s business. Digital Railroad, www.digitalrailroad.net, automates repetitive workflow tasks, as well as streamlines delivery of images and communications with clients providing photographers an online searchable archive that unlocks potential image…
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From Beyond Bullets: Signal to Noise
If your PowerPoint slides are generating more noise than signal, it’s time to fine-tune your approach and re-engineer your headlines. The engineering term signal-to-noise ratio describes the relationship between meaningful information (signal) to meaningless information (noise). The higher the ratio of signal-to-noise, the more meaningful information is being communicated. Read the rest here.
From Beyond Bullets: Mystery Media
What kind of medium is PowerPoint? And where does it fit in the range of other media including film, TV, photography, comics, websites, and paper? Scott McCloud is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to understanding media, and when I asked him the same question in an interview recently, his response was basically: “I don’t know.”…
CSS Positioning
Heres a good explanation of CSS “positioning”:http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp from Brainjar. I’ve been working on a layout that is giving me fits lately – this should help.
From ALA: Preventing image/bandwidth theft
I need to dig into this a bit: “Preventing image/bandwidth theft.”:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0704c.shtml#ala185
Photo Gallery
I am in the process of setting up a photo gallery on this site. I plan on using Brandon Fuller’s “MTPhotoGallery plugin”:http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/mtphotogallery/#install to do the bulk of the work. The tutorial by “John Day Reiner”:http://www.photojunkie.org/archives/2004/04/12/fun_with_mt_photogallery.php will be my guide for setting up the templates. Now I need to crank up the scanner and get to work.
Naming and branding links
Here are a couple of links for my son “Sean”:http://sean.fioritto.us as he works on naming and branding for his business idea: * “Snark Hunting”:http://www.snarkhunting.com/index.html – Naming and Branding in Popular Culture * “Building the Perfect Beast: The Igor Naming Guide”:http://www.igorinternational.com/naming-guide.html
Shortwave radio links
I have always been fascinated with shortwave radio. I have a 1940’s era Zenith radio that I received from my grandparents. It serves as a decorative piece in our living room now since I’m a bit leery of plugging it in. One of these days I want to restore it. Here’s a list of links for later reference: “Dxing.com”:http://www.dxing.com is…
The power of storytelling and images
Visual Improvisation Cliff Atkinson describes an interesting visual improvisation exercise where conference attendees were given one minute to tell a story about their company and they had to refer in some way to the image on the screen. If you are looking for new ways to use powerpoint and other media to communicate your ideas, Cliff’s “beyond bullets”:http://sociablemedia.typepad.com/beyond_bullets/ is a…
Develop your strategic thinking abilities
From the “Innovation Weblog”:http://www.innovationtools.com/weblog/innovationblog-detail.asp?ArticleID=472 bq. Paul Schumann of The Innovation Road Map Travelogue Weblog, outlines four abilities that you can develop to enhance your capability to think strategically.