Testing A Shout Out

I'm fiddling with a few things.... First I haven't uploaded many of my own photos, though I know Nancy and Steve frequently do. So, to paraphrase Greg Brown, it's a picture of a picture taken and printed my good friend Annie Murdock. The original happily hangs in my apartment.

Secondly, I just installed Adium on my iMac to consolidate my IM clients (MSN, Jabber, iChat & Yahoo), and so far I'm very impressed, though I've yet to chat with anyone.

Thirdly, I just installed Skype too, which seems a bit redundant to IM, or vice versa, but you've got to use it to know... which is all to say, does anyone else here use skype? Norm & Judy have it on their Macs but I don't think they've set up accounts.

So for the geeks, what else do you use? I know there's some Flickr folks, Delicious anyone? Who's gearing up for Web2.0? I'd love to pick your brain.

Using grafedia to host images

This is my mom. This is my dad. This and us:dad and I. This is whitney in 1981, this is sam.

What kind of handle should a grafedia artist have?

Where urban and techo collide: be on the lookout for Grafedia. It looks like vandalism, but it's art, and was featured in Wired not too long ago.

Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. It can be written anywhere - on walls, in the streets, or on sidewalks. Grafedia can also be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers "click" on these grafedia hyperlinks with their cell phones by sending a message addressed to the word + "@grafedia.net" to get the content behind the link.

Whitney's got a hawkeye, and I a treo, perhaps we'll spend a day hunting grafedia.


***update*** As I thought about this more, it reminded me much of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, where the cybestrians are on the prowl to find, view, and discuss "footage." I'm interested what, if any kind of narrative comes out of this medium.

As of today, many words aren't used, "tax", "sugar", "starbucks", which reminds me of when domain names were vast and available.