In keeping with the meme of presenting my personal best photos of 2006. Here are the ones that got the best reception in Flickr:
Listening to KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny. Show on Convergence Culture
-- Forum looks at "convergence culture," assesses where, when and how
old and new media collide, and explores the possible technological and
cultural shifts in multiple media platforms. Michael Krasny is joined
by Henry Jenkins (his blog), director of the M.I.T. Comparative Media Studies
Program and is the school's Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities.
Overall, I was impressed by some of his insights into online culture specifically:
Overall, I was impressed by some of his insights into online culture specifically:
- Communities are typically built around an affinity area and people are relatively in synch in that aspect (liberal blogger, conservative bloggers, environmental bloggers, etc) and they may be very different in other aspects of their lives. He commented that some excellent political dialogue is occurring in online communities that are not political (such as communities around specific tv shows).
- People participate in multiple communities around different interests.
I have been exploring making HDR photographs for the last year. I've probably taken about 10. I wanted to share the photos of Trey Ratcliff, whose HDR photos are some of the best I have come across.
This shot looks like a space station.
He also has a wonderful set of his best HDRs here.
