Fotopedia

You know about wikipedia. Well this is kinda like wikipedia only different.

Fotopedia is breathing new life into photos by building a photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web.

“After traveling the world, I wanted to share my photos with others. Flickr and other photo sites give you exposure for only a brief window in time, and adding photos to wikipedia proved too complicated for the average user. This sparked the idea for a ‘wikipedia of photos’ – that combines the permanence and community collaboration of wikipedia with the ease of use of consumer desktop applications.” - Jean-Marie Hullot, one of the founders of Fotopedia, former CTO of NeXT Software and Apple’s Application Division.

How neat!  link to Fotopedia

Filter Flickr

FlickrCC uses a keyword search to bring up a window of pictures tagged with that search tag. Click on each picture gets you the proper attribution link, editing link and different sizes to move directly into your presentations and websites. All of the images are copyright with Creative Commons licensing, which encourages sharing.

Tag Galaxy lets you visually search Flickr. Yes, visually. You can then filter down through refined tags to get to your desired image. Some images are not shared with Creative Commons licensing, which you should be aware of before using them in your presentations or on your blogs and websites.

Various Interesting Stuff

Fliis, All the music you can imagine! Type in any key term and all the songs available on YouTube will appear. The option not to have the video helps if you are in need of just the song!

This is a cool image…zoom in on it and it just keeps displaying more, user-submitted images. It’s an Infinite Photograph. From National Geographic: "What makes up our world? Dive into this photo-mosaic portrait of the Earth to see it through the eyes of users like you. It's made up of hundreds of photos of the natural world, each submitted by users to My Shot... Move the yellow square over an area you would like to explore, click, and go. Double-click on an image to see more information about it. Keep clicking—and diving deeper into the Infinite Photograph—to get a truly boundless picture of Earth."

Current and historical photos @ LIFE - Your World in Pictures.

BBC’s One Minute Wonders…quick bits of science and nature goodness.

Time Warp videoe clips from the Discovery Channel. Using high-speed photography, the hosts slow down events that normally occur in the blink of an eye…like the vibrations of a cymbal or a cat licking up milk. Now you can watch tons of their videos online.
There are even interactive clips. Control how slow or fast the dog drinks the water, popcorn pops, bulldog shakes, taking a water balloon to the face . . .

Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket,... (I almost said, "Oh, my!")

Do you like Flickr or Picasa? Check out Picasa vs. Flickr by David Israel. He compares the two from his point of view and then by others in the comments.

And, since I'm getting ready for Follow the Yellow Brick Road (I will be dancing as part of the rainbow and the tornado and will also be Aunt Em) Here is some info about Rainbows > http://eo.ucar.edu/rainbows/

see pictures from the performance

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