OK, Computer
JA
January 17
I’m not much of a brain as far as the gadgets go, but lately I have come across a few interesting things out there on the World Wide Web that might be useful to various literary bodies. Here’s a quick run through.
Mac Freedom
For those needing to exercise a great amount of self-control, this program apparently allows you to disable your connection to the internet/various networking sites for a set period of time. The minimum set time is 10 minutes, max 8 hours. Only for Mac users or equivalents of Justin Long.
Tag Galaxy
This is a pretty amazing combination of smooth website design and infographics. Tag Galaxy allows you to search for photos via Flickr as if you were searching through infinite space, gradually narrowing down your fields. The site was designed by Steven Wood as part of a diploma thesis and is a great way to source quality images.
Stories in Flight
The brainchild of Thomas Sturm, Stories in Flight is an ongoing project that aims to look at storytelling in a digital age. Flickrpoet, for example, allows you match images to any bit of text, lyrics or prose copied and pasted into the search box. Similarly, #haiku does the same with any tweets feautring the #haiku hashtag. Doesn’t always work (rather odd images paired up with rather plain text), but worth a look nonetheless.
Tag Galaxy
Our Friends
- Overland
- Alien Onion
- Ampersand Duck
- Andrew McDonald
- A Pair of Ragged Claws
- Arts Victoria
- Australia Council for the Arts
- Ben Eltham
- Bookshow blog
- CAL
- City of Tongues
- Crikey
- darkly wise, rudely great
- David Astle
- Elmo Keep Does Stuff
- The Ember
- Fly the Falcon blog
- Going Down Swinging
- Griffith Review
- Hackpacker
- Harvest
- HEAT
- Island
- Killings blog
- Literary Minded
- Lorraine Crescent
- Lynden Barber
- Mandy Ord
- Marcus Westbury
- Matilda
- Meanland
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Mel Campbell
- The Monthly
- Musings of an Inappropriate Woman
- Oslo Davis
- Paul Callaghan
- Read, Think, Write
- Sleepers Publishing
- Sorrow at Sills Bend
- SPLOG
- Tom Cho
- Virgule
- Wet Ink
- Wheeler Centre
Comments
17 Jan 10 at 19:14
Thanks so much for the link to Mac Freedom. It may or may not have just saved me from myself.
...17 Jan 10 at 22:05
No worries - if I but had a mac it might have saved me from myself. Sadly, it's not to be.
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