One of my current favorite writers is Cory Doctorow, who, I suspect, is seeing someone quite famous from the television series "Enterprise". This would seem in keeping with Cory's geek roots and sci-fi sensibilities.
Cory, a self-professed "committed infovore" now calls London, England his home after having bounced around North America for a few years.
From his 12 year attempt to get published, and near-instant recognition as the winner Year 2000 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, Cory has continued to forge his name on the bleeding edge of net-culture and technology. He is a savant with interesting ideas about the social justice implications of technology adoption, and though this is the way I would phrase his involvement from my perspective because I share many of his sentiments intimately, this may not be the way he bills himself.
Having invested himself in the Creative Commons licensing with the blessing of his publisher TOR, Cory has springboarded ahead as a writer, gaining popularity by making his work available online to new readers leveraging both his journalistic work on the popular blog Boing Boing he helped found (250,000 hits monthly), and his position as Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Cory is in huge demand internationally and has spoken widely on a variety of subjects relating to culture, technology, and, obviously, science fiction.
You will find Cory's name popping up at you in a lot of different places on the Internet. His relationship to blogging and blog technology and information is unparalleled.
Maintaining web logs or "Blogging" and the use of RSS feeds to syndicate the content contained in these sometimes intensely personal collections of expression has outstripped the expectations and longevity of the orginators of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) developers along with many in the web development field.
Collaboration and learning are fast becoming a major part of the field where once proprietary or time intensive blog tools have moved into the realm of the affordable and easy-to-use. Expanded features have also changed blogs into mobile, versatile, accessible tools complete with access priviledge and ownership controls that enable users and managers to collect and secure data.
So, if you're sold on the blog phenomenon, know that it isn't new. It's simply going through a process of maturation that brings enterprise-grade toolsets down to the level of the individual. For a quick backgrounder on what a blog is the link below gives a great high-level overview and some easy to follow instructions for getting started.
Start Your Blog Learning Here
http://blog.blogware.com/help/
Photoblogging Turns Mobile Phone Into Instant Photo Album
http://www.photojunkie.ca/archives/2004/06/07/random_bytes.php
You're not going to find that this site specifically shows you how to create a blog photo album, but it gives you an idea of what can be done with photoblogging. The Blogware link above can show you where to find the tools to turn your blog into a one-stop family-album shop, with easy tools and instructions.
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