Posts by Karl
The Value of Creative Work (or "Shit Clients Say") My significant other is a fashion…
The Value of Creative Work (or “Shit Clients Say”) My significant other is a fashion photographer and retoucher. She recently had a conversation with a new client who’s runs a hair salon. It went like this: Hair Bloke: Hey, I’ve got a lead for you. Do you retouch passport photographs?My GF: Not usually. It depends [...]
iBooks Author: We Nearly Made It There
iBooks Author: We Nearly Made It There was a brief moment of euphoria, wasn’t there? iBooks Author was going to be a game changer. In a digital publishing landscape that is either expensive (Adobe Digital Publishing Suite) or clunky (Kindle Direct Publishing), iBooks Author was going to be free and easy. And then people remembered [...]
Smart TV needs to Dumb Down
Posting in reaction to SOPA and PIPA, tech writer and dev Paul Graham calls for us to kill Hollywood and posit alternative modes of entertainment. Among the ideas he flings out there are games and interactive TV shows and things that “look a lot like shows but are more interactive”. Paul, welcome to 1992. Reading [...]
iPhone Photography
The BBC reports todaythat London’s Kensington and Chelsea College has launched a course about iPhone photography. The course is ” thought to be a UK first.” It may be the first “full course” – but it’s not the UK’s first provision. I know because modules I developed for BA Journalism and BSc Photographic Journalism at [...]
I Want a Kindle Fire
I wanted a Kindle Fire before it was called “the Kindle Fire”. You don’t need a crystal ball or a degree in tea leaf divination to know that brand + price point x Amazon’s attention to detail (and distribution back end) is pretty much destined to equal TEH SPARKLING SHINY AWESOME. But I have a [...]
Movember
Dear G+ people, It’s way into November and, like many geek-men, I’m growing a moustache to benefit men’s health charity Movember. All proceeds go towards cancer research. If you haven’t already donated to Movember, please consider donating a couple of dollars to me. It’s a really good cause. It doesn’t have to be much. I [...]
Ouch…
Marco’s review assumes that the Fire should be an iPad replacement, and from that point of view I agree with him that the Fire is not. I bought mine as a Kindle (gen 1) replacement, and it does everything I need in an e-reader, plus allows me to easily check my email (thanks to the [...]
When did people start getting excited “for” things?
When did people start getting excited “for” things instead of “about” things? When did the object become the subject? Why do I have to be excited on behalf of the thing I’m doing? Huh? HUH? I’mthe one who’s excited. Not the talk on digital journalism I’m going to or the reformation of the Stone Roses [...]
The new Storify interface is looking much cleaner.
The new Storify interface is looking much cleaner. Less a Mom and Pop start-up and more like the thing-of-the-moment curation tool we all need. Still, unless I’m completely mistaken, Storify lacks user search for Storified content… You can search for Storify content when creating a story, but not when landing on the front page as [...]
Not exactly new – but I am loving ShareMouse
Not exactly new – but I am loving ShareMouse – an almost ridiculously easy to use virtual keyboard and mouse sharing app. To clarify that, it works a bit like a KVM. You plug a keyboard and mouse into one machine on your network – and can use them with any other Windows or Mac [...]