As I was finishing up my earlier post on the geotagging tutorial, Pankaj Garg of ZeeMaps sent me an e-mail. We had previously been in touch about the possibility of using a GeoRSS feed to map photos in ZeeMaps. GeoRSS is exactly what it sounds like, an RSS feed for geo-encoded information. More people have [...]
The Asia Society’s Center on U.S.–China Relations recently published China Green, a multimedia site that will highlight stories of China’s environment. Its initial set of videos and images focus on how climate change is affecting the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas, which host the headwaters of most of Asia’s major rivers. The Asia Society took [...]
The Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley has published my tutorial on Geotagging and Mapping Photos. In it, I go through a set of steps on how to assign location data to images shot on a digital camera and how to use the results to put the images in an online map. The KDMC [...]
Geoff Marcy is a Berkeley professor of astronomy and, in little more than a decade, his research team has discovered about half of the known planets outside of our solar system. I sat in with him one night this fall as he used the Keck telescope to scan nearby stars for planets. The result is [...]
Last August I went to northeast China and for the following five months I’ve been putting together a story about an eco-village in China. Or, rather, an attempted eco-village. Here’s how Frontline/World described it: “The village of Huangbaiyu in rural northeast China was supposed to be a model for energy-conscious design. The initial project was [...]
PicLens is an extension that creates what looks to me like a javascript slideshow, or, if the viewer adds it to his copy of Firefox or Safari (or even Internet Explorer), can create a three-dimensional wall of photos. It’s kind of confusing until you see it. I’ve enabled PicLens on the Xi’an gallery that includes [...]
So there’s a story related to this picture. Actually, the story I’m telling is about the village where this boy lives. It’s the reason why I’ve embargoed all of my photos from China last August. Check Frontline/World tomorrow (Thursday, the last day of January) and you’ll see what I mean.
It seems to be a never-ending quest to find appropriate music to add to projects like radio shows, multimedia presentations, or , you know, Exit Music (for a film), that sort of thing. Here is the latest resource I’ve seen: “film music,” at mobygratis.com. So sign up and you can request free non-commercial licenses for [...]
If you thought tilting and shifting a lens was only for fancy architecture and design magazines, well, my friend, you would be wrong. At the end of May, the Times put together an audio slideshow featuring sporting events shot by Vincent Laforet using a tilt-shift lens. The presentation has been making the rounds, but it [...]
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