Archive for the ‘internet’ Category

The Poetess

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Sometimes it helps to have an image instead of words. I needed an art hit and thought suddenly of Miro. A quick google image search on ‘miro’ yielded  this. Which also seems to explain tagging visually. And if it doesn’t for you, it should at least be pleasing to the eye! 

Tagging is Coming…

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I have been raving about tagging for a while (in life not in blog) but I thought it time to share this with you all to upskill/share quick smart. Before I do – what is a tag? [skip if you know].  A tag is "a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos, and links with [...]

I’m Priceless!!

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

So I am reading some of my favourite blogs today -  gapingvoid - and saw this: "How much is your blog worth"?  Admittedly I am sure that many people would think having a value of ’0′ isn’t something one is meant to write home about… but a friend, Sydney, was saying yesterday how important it is not to [...]

Plant In what you Breathe In

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself." – William Blake, 1799, [...]

Google Moon’s Us

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

In honour of the Apollo’s, Google Maps has gone to the moon… And while we are here I thought I might clear up a little quandry – ever wondered about "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"? I mean, man = mankind…says Neil Armstrong there is a small "a" missing. ie "one small step for [...]

Brand Earth – the new advertising playground

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Just as we got excited about the cool new mapping features - Google’s GoogleEarth, Yahoo’s YahooMaps and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth (forthcoming)… Now the NYTimes* reports that these web-based maps will be the next growth area in online advertising! How come? Programmers will be able to write code that links data to the maps thus allowing advertising to be embedded in maps. [...]