Photography: Professional hubris
In recent years, it’s safe to say everything has been on the up for amateur photographers like myself. Digital photography has removed the waiting and the chemicals from the workflow, meaning everyone who has a digital camera can see instantly what their pictures look like. The adage that every photographer has a few thousand crap photos to take before they take a good one is dealt with so much sooner now. This, coupled with sites like Flickr, DeviantArt and to some degree Facebook, means amateurs like myself can get their pictures seen by more people than ever before. This leads to being approached for commercial usage and this is where the Professionals have got themselves into apoplexy.
A rank amateur, raining on your parade. ©2008, Stuart Dallas Photography
Android iPhone Linkbait Fight!
Ten reasons Android pisses on the iPhone’s strawberries! Seven reasons the Nexus One will defeat the iPhone 3GS! Why to buy one phone over the other! Seriously, give it a rest. Linkbait articles are going up all over the place with imaginary battles taking place all over the place, begging for your eyeballs and attention, and they all have one thing in common: They’re bollocks.
An iPhone 3GS serving as linkbait
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I know this article is a little bit late to the party, but it took a while for this to sink in. Firstly, they pulled porn apps, like they always said they would, and then, without warning, they pulled apps that used private frameworks, like they always said they would. This is shocking!
Oh noes!
My thoughts on the Apple iPad
Yes, we all read Fraser Speirs‘ excellent Future Shock and we’ve listened to the constant whining of the “less space than a Nomad“ folks and we’re asking ourselves when a new Dell ever elicited this response.
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
BBC Munchy Box infringement
Update 2010-02-10: The BBC once again prove their decency. They have clarified that the images and text were sent in by a viewer and were taken on good faith, an unfortunately easy thing to do these days and they’ve decided to honour my requests. All in all, I’m impressed with their reaction as they could have swatted me aside like a fly as I’m small-fry compared to their might, but they didn’t. So, go join the Facebook Save BBC 6Music group. Why couldn’t this happen with someone I disliked?
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