Archive for the 'Digital' Category

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African Spam Moves from email to Facebook

  It starts out with this. Usually they have one person in common as a friend. Be Aware. Mine was from Mirah ILge   You can respond like I did, but you are not talking to an individual but a bot – something which looks for a response and then sends this out. No doubt since what I said has
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Blinded Science Miss Sakamoto!

This is going down as a “Did you actually ever think that 80s videos could come to fruition”. Dolby is responsible for the fact that your mobile can do more than just do a beep beep when getting a call, text, email etc. “Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You’re beautiful!” Perhaps best known for blinding us with science, TED Music Director
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Photos like this work well to create a montage with the content-aware function with Photoshop.

Merging and Flailing

The power of Photoshop is without question the most important thing that is out there these days when it comes to impressions. I know we all are a bit wary about the photos of models and how they do not really represent reality due to much photo manipulation with software. This phto manipulation has become a noun of “photoshop’. Lets
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Infographics – Easy Peasy

Besides digital media I have another passion – bacon. So as a kind of light hearted post for the end of a hot month, I thought I might give you a digital bacon break. Enjoy.

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Mozilla Web Literacy Standard Release

Today, the Mozilla Foundation unveilled a beta version of its Web Literacy Standard and also the Request For Comments (RFC): milestone release of standard. The Standard is a list of skills and competencies they believe are important for anyone who wants to read, write and interact with others on the web. For me this is great. Having a long history
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Family Font

Something different today. This is a font that I made from WWI records of enlistements from my father’s (Yeadon) and mother’s (grandmother was Barnhill) families. I used both as some of the letters would not work or were illegible. I made this font 10 years ago and still use it from time to time. Here is the TTF format in
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Gardener of the Digital Garden

Digital Marketing encapsulates many forms of marketing that I believe belong really under one moniker. Social media, paid search, display and Facebook advertising, reach and analysis, content development (non-article based), peer review research and industry related blogging all work to further the goal of awareness of an organization. As marketing is about awareness, the aspect of digital marketing encapsulates creating
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Geeks and Nerds

  For me there was no distinction between geeks and nerds in the 80s. We were all the same. Though I tried to fit with the football team and get that most sought after locker in jock hall by being the the statistician for the high school football team, I just hung around band hall. Perhaps I should have embraced
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Keep Me Waiting and I Will Leave

I tied to think up a great blog but in the end I was defeated. My laser mouse was all over the place. WTF i said to myself. Oh it might have been easier if  I did to have so much in my mind with the job search but there it stands. I have had major hurdles both with my
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Back On Board

What better way to test and upload an image than a photo my brother took on the train in NYC. Late to post anything, but hope this pans out. Be back on the train this week as it has been very stressful not being able to blog. Sure I can blog, but I really need to have the ability to
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