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Print Photos at Walgreens Straight From Picasa!

File Walgreens under Awesome twice today; first, today's their Free Film Developing Day, and now it's been announced that Walgreens is a print provider for Picasa! That's right, print directly from your Picasa albums to Walgreens — which was already my preferred photo printer because you can pick them up from a store right after you order them online, no shipping costs or waiting incurred. And don't forget to adjust your settings in Content Control to allow visitors to order prints of your pho...

Let the Web be free of Mediaset and Veltroni

Yesterday, Mediaset shares lost another 4.31%. Since the beginning of the year they have dropped by a total of 32.53%. The company’s operating results are going downhill: 644.3 million Euro during the first half of 2008, down from 699.9 million in 2007. Mediaset makes its livelihood from advertising. Thanks to the Italian Government’s concession to broadcast on no less than three channels, Berlusconi is able to share the television advertising cake with RAI, through Publitalia, in what is e...

Sneak Peek! Lydia Hearst For Myla Lingerie

Lydia Hearst, heiress and Gossip Girl guest star, is the body and face of Myla lingerie's Fall/Winter ’08 campaign. Shot by Ben Hassett, the campaign evokes '40s Hollywood glamor using dramatic contrasts and sensual backdrops. “I turned up the volume with strong luscious colour and styling inspired by a dramatic '40s mood, drawing on Film Noir Screen Sirens and classic Hollywood glamour. The collection features iconic new bra shapes to coordinate with retro hipster knickers and deep suspende...

The Look For Less: Oscar de la Renta African Print Dress

This Oscar de la Renta African Print Dress ($1,225, originally $2,450) would be a fabulous piece to add to my collection of dresses. Accessorizing would be loads of fun, but runway looks come at a hefty price, and even at 50 percent off, I cannot fathom forking over the bills for this fun frock. To see the look for less, read more

Fate of the Book

Attention Conservation Notice: This is a long stream in an unordered distributed debate. It may not make much sense unless you've read the discussion that is taking place on various websites indicated in the following paragraphs. There are many strands in the conversation. The one I am following here is about whether books will be dethroned from their centrality in culture. Nick Carr is the current smart critic of the new. He is articulate and informed, which is why his worry about the decline ...

An Open Access partisan's view of "Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship"

There's been a good deal of online chatter about this recent Science article that discusses the effects of online access on scholarship -- see, e.g., discussions here and here and blog entries noted therein. The report is not available without paying a toll or subscription, but the abstract is freely visible: Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print -- scientists ...

Dean Brown Interview Notes For The New Jazz Thing, Thursday, July 17, 2008

Vince Outlaw posted a photo: Dean's got all the facts meant for print ...radio...video...TNJT... (and to show up high on lots of san diego dean brown google searches) Dizzy's Fri 8 PM $15 Dave Curtis John Rekevics Steve Steinberg Cliff Howard Chuck Perrin Here Clave Groove Solid Battle's Over - Take This DeanBrown.com myspace/DeanBrown

ReCaptcha: Reusing your 'wasted' time online

ZURICH, Switzerland--Chances are that if you've solved one of those distorted-word tests to secure an account with Facebook, Craigslist, or Ticketmaster, you've helped The New York Times inch a little closer to digitizing its entire print newspaper archive from 1851 to 1980. How have you unwittingly helped the Gray Lady by wasting 10 seconds on a computer-generated word challenge? It's thanks to a year-old initiative called ReCaptcha, a play on the antispam tests known as Captchas (Completely Au...

How do you Print Digital Photos on the Go?

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The first camera I ever owned was a Polaroid Instamatic. This was long before digital cameras were even manufactured. (...)

Lunch with Foremski: Dutch Nimbuzz gets a Buzz on . . .

I'm lucky, I find an empty parking spot right outside the Thai restaurant where I'm meeting "EJ" (Evert Jaap Lugt) the CEO of Nimbuzz it's a company I'm starting to hear a buzz about. I've no idea what EJ looks like but there's a guy waiting outside. He says "Hello Tom, there's a tall blonde guy inside looking for you." I walk inside and sure enough a tall blonde guy bounds up and introduces himself as EJ. "I asked some guy outside if he was Tom he said he wasn't but he said he knew you." I sit ...