http://www.mikegerra.com/blog Just another blog about photography Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last 6 months, I’ve been swirling around in the vortex of Web 2.0 development. Let me paraphrase. I’ve completed work on a new website. It’s called Storylicious.com. It’s been under wraps for the last 9 months — the first of many collaborations brought to you by FidgetLabs (of ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=43 My relative absense from the blogsphere in recent months has been brought to you by: a) Blogfatigue; b) Kids on school holidays; c) Other and “real” web design work. On the latter, I’ve co-founded a company to pursue some exciting untapped needs in the burgeoning social networking space. The inner machinations ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=42 I have just finished adding RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to my blog. In the top right quadrant of the blog you’ll now see “subscribe to my blog” followed by several RSS chicklets. I’ve included feeds to half a dozen of the most popular RSS aggregators, such as Yahoo, Newsgator and ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=41 I thought it would be interesting to make a quick list of online photosharing sites. While by no means exhaustive — please comment if you know of others — it does show the sea change in progress. Is that dusty photo album in your closet soon to be ejected into ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=39 First Squidoo, now Carbonmade! Ever on the look out for new ways to promote my photographs, today I came across Carbonmade. “Not another online photography site!”, I hear you say. Well, it certainly seems that a new image show-and-tell or photosharing site appears on the web every 10 minutes. So, ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=38 What on earth is a Squidoo? And what is a Lensmaster? Squidoo is a new, cooperative internet service that allows people to build communities and edit filters on topics they are passionate about. A Lensmaster is simply a member of Squidoo who acts as the filter and has editorial control ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=37 Visit the local camera store (if you have one) or scour the internet and you’ll doubtless see that film sales continue to decline, with digital photography on an unstoppable ascendant. I have both “analog” and digital equipment, and use both. Check out Nikon’s recent announcement regarding its exit from the ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=36 The Stratford Green Gallery, home to my B+W photography exhibit, is taking part in the Old Town Holiday Stroll on Saturday, December 3. This annual family festival in downtown Lewisville features a parade at 3pm, ice sculpting, a kids’ coloring contest and lots of other fun events. It’s a great opportunity ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=13 I visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park over the Thanksgiving weekend. This is my first time in the Smokies. It rained on the first day, so I didn’t have much opportunity to get the camera warmed up. The next day, the first snow storm of the season dumped 8 ... http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=12 I’ve finally published online some of my photographs of Quebec City, Canada. I took most of these during the autumn of 1999. Here’s the complete Quebec City index page http://www.mikegerra.com/blog/?p=4