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(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Tech' CategoryPosts relating to techie things Moderating blog comments -- the triage to weed out spam and such before making submitted comments visible to the public -- can get complicated. Obvious spam is easy (delete it), as are obviously on-topic relevant personal comments without links (approve it). But there's a lot in between. In particular, if there's a link you have to consider where it goes, and the commenter's purpose for including the link. On one end of the spectrum, spammers will just copy the text of a previously-approved comment and add a link to a site they're spamming for. Or someone will write something that [...]
Scott Kelby's marketing skill continue to amaze me. I posted the other day in "The Amazing Marketing Power of Scott Kelby" that I was disappointed in Scott Kelby for hyping a product close to him in a blatantly dishonest fashion. It seems that he responded to the tsunami of criticism a few days later in a video on one of his sites, KelbyTV, where, around 10 minutes into the show, he addresses the issue. He says... This is shockingly dishonest.... the "went and did it" has nothing to do with the context he set up. Folks saying "We wish we [...]
In my previous post, about factually-incorrect hype of a photo-editing application that claimed it provided "Layers in Lightroom", I noted that an idea had come to me to almost actually provide "Layers in Lightroom". I had a proof-of-concept version out to friends that evening, but it's taken a couple of days to spiff it up enough for a beta release. -- Jeffrey's "Photoshop Layers" Lightroom Plug -- It's slow and a bit kludgy -- definitely not "Layers in Lightroom" -- but unlike other external-editor solutions like the hyped app, this plugin allows for a [...]
If you're not really into digital photography, you may have never heard of Scott Kelby, but he's quite the media dynamo in the on-line digital-photography world. He founded a Photoshop user's club some years ago, and seemingly has never rested since. As an example of his business savvy, rather than launching the club with a self-limiting name like "Tampa Photoshop Users Club", he smartly called it the grandiose "National Association of Photoshop Professionals", and it took off. Since then, he's got writing credit on dozens of books and instructional videos, and leads a whole self-titled media machine (Kelby Media Group) [...]
If you shoot with a Nikon D3, D700, or D300, and use Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, you'll want to know about the "Camera v3" beta camera-calibration profiles described in this Adobe-forum thread. (The actual profiles are in this ZIP file.) This is important because in some cases, the standard "Camera" profiles that come with Lightroom ACR fail miserably for these three cameras. For example, consider this crop from the photo above: Those mottled magenta splotches are not on the flower; they're a bug in Lightroom's camera profiles for the D3/D700/D300. (The rest of this post is written from a Lightroom [...] 
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