I am currently working on the main feature scheduled for version 1.3 of activeRenderer: the inclusion of images, defined as jpg, gif or png link attributes, into the outline's web page. Following is a rather technical description of the problems I'm experiencing doing this in Javascript. [read more] [s l a m]

 

hi my name is sam,
i draw pictures, from your titles. send me a title, or any thing else you want to talk to me about to: sambrown@explodingdog.com

Some drawings are silly, others profound. All delightful.

Sam is building conversations in a unique way.

No reason you can't apply this to other media, other work.

CAD drawings. Caricatures.

Singing a song. Narrating a voice over.

Copy editing. Headline writing.

Writing lyrics to a song title. Shooting a video to a song.

Problem assessment. Library reference. Tech support (we've seen stuff like that).

 

Sam's conversation is short: title and response. Some of his conversations seem to be recursive: new titles that result from earlier drawings.

That's fun. Simple. Like his drawings.

But there's room for more.

Can you see a blog that puts 60 seconds of music to each Exploding Dog drawing?

Another that builds a poem on top of that?

Someone else that finds three news stories that complement the rest?

Another that migrates these to Flash animation?

 

Make it easy to migrate all sorts of work product into blogs.

To be aware and sensitive to ripples of presence in my social fabric.

[a klog apart klogs]

 

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One step forward for email users... New Outlook doesn't call graphic, sound or video files in the preview window. [List-News.com]

Not only will this feature stop a convenient way of spammers confirming active email addresses but, maybe it will stop emailers erroneous practice of counting every ping from an email client as an "open." [JohnLawlor.com]

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n the footnote of a 5th Circuit appellate court opinion, he quickly noted it on his weblog.

The next day, Judge Jerry Smith, who wrote the opinion and also happens to be a reader of Bashman's blog (PDF), fixed the error in an amended version. The judge e-mailed Bashman, personally thanking him for bringing the mistake to his attention.

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Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It's browser-accessible from any 4.0 or higher web browser and doesn't require Windows on the client. It leverages their strengths by integrating with Office, and there's no per-user client access fee. Then imagine if this weblogging tool were deployed to millions of users, all before anyone in the weblog community took notice.

That scenario is real.

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