Author: Kris Krüg

Canada.com Redesigns Without RSS Feeds Canada.com recently launched a long-overdue redesign of their website. I’ll let you decide what you think on your own, but I find it way too busy, deeply unusable and just plain ugly. As somebody recently remarked, they went from looking like an early-n

Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday A number of people asked me yesterday what I learned at the conference, and I had a hard time answering, not because I didn’t learn anything but because the things I learned were a bunch of small things rather than one large thing.

Why We Love JPG Magazine: Photography is Not a Crime We are not terrorists. We are not dangerous. And we are certainly not a threat. For Issue 5, we’re asking you to go out in public and take photos. Insist on your rights as a photographer. Shoot where people tell you not to. Talk to Read More …

The Dogs Part of the Equation So, perhaps you were wondering why this geek conference I’m at was called Blogs N Dogs? Well, wonder no longer because I’m here to tell you that today I went dogsledding with my fellow geeks. And jaysus murphy was it ever cold.

Greetings from Banff Right now in Kris Krug’s room there are 7 people, 8 computers and quite inexplicably, a double turntable with a mixer. This is going to be fun. We just got into Banff this afternoon and the mountains are big and the temps are low, like single digits.

Welcome to BlogsnDogs The faculty and their guests are almost all here and Robert Scales confirms that yes, we are all geeking out. In proper journalistic form, Travis Smith has some numbers on the run up.

The Quest to Acheive Buzzword Compliancy …will I really have to start referring to things like my DLA? Or my PSP? In the middle of sentences as if everyone knows what I’m talking about? (Which they would, here at Blogs N Dogs.)

Blogs n Dogs – Geeking out in kk’s room Robert Scales testing out Odeo podcasting suite in my room at Blogs N Dogs.

Testing Odeo – Blogs and Dogs, Banff Just a lil test of the new Odeo Studio in browser podcasting tool built in Flash. It’s basic functionality seems simple and cool.

Blogs n Dogs – Faculty Geeking out We had a long day of travel

Off to Blogs and Dogs Long underwear? Check (though I had to go buy it today). Toque? Check. Snobby attitude about the West Coast? Check.

Currently -13 F, but Real Feel is -24 F Holy crap, it’s cold. That’s -25 / -32 Celsius for our metric friends. My narrow Californian ass is confused. It’s 11 pm. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

The Right’s of Photographers (when shooting in public places) I carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I know I’m not alone on this because as photographers we know that the greatest shots often come at the least expected times and I never want to be unprepared for those great moments.

Flickr Favourites: Why? Why? Why? What makes one person’s pictures stand apart from another or even what makes one shot of someone’s stand apart from a similar shot by the same photographer.

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