I’m not very happy with the current hosting of this blog: the platform is becoming a bit outdated, looks like no activity going on over there (I don’t like “dead” services) and the it’s becoming a bit too slow for me. I have paid hosting with lots of storage and traffic available, and with a fully customizable Wordpress installation available with just one click.
So sometimes, many times actually, I wonder why don’t I migrate to my own host, or at least to Wordpress.com, and end this once and for all. Probably because I have to buy a new domain, I don’t think I could fit a tech oriented blog like this under temujinphoto.com, and importing all the posts from one blog to the other won’t be an easy task.

My other blog, the one less geeky than this one, had a facelift.

anchorite

Once again it’s voting time for the next issue JPG Magazine.

I just created my tumblog!
“And what’s a tumblog?” some might ask. You could check at Wikipedia but if a blog is like a diary a tumblog is more like a scrapbook, a place where someone can post short notes, links, photos and content gathered elsewhere.
“And what’s so special about your tumblog?” some could ask also. It’s mine, it will include things like posts from my blogs, my Twitter activity (although I’m still discovering this one…), my photos and links I’ll share via my del.icio.us or Google Reader.

t3mujin.tumblr.com

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One of the most curious, and strange, web applications that appeared in this thing we call Internet has to be Yahoo! Pipes. In just a few words, but Lifehacker have a more detailed review, this tool lets you gather information from several places around the web (usually using RSS), transforms it and exports the results into one place. The best part is that this happens using a neat graphic interface, no HTML code or technical knowledge is needed, I just used it for a couple of minutes but  I already created something I was needing for some time: a way to combine the updates of my photo galleries in one place, usefull for publising it as a RSS feed.

[update] Frantic Industries has a nice article about Yahoo! Pipes.

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New Year for many people means new resolutions and new projects, although I’ve abandoned new year resolutions a long time ago I’m starting the year with a brand new project.

It’s a joint blog that will combine images and words (photography and poetry to be a bit more accurate) in a way that isn’t clear for us, yet… I’ll be in charge of all the photography related matters, unless my writing skills dramatically improve in the near future allowing me to contribute with something else.

I’m eager to see how this will evolve in the next months.

:Phoetry:

 
Originally uploaded by t3mujin.

“Para lá de superfície” (in English “Beyond the surface”) is photography book, included in a scientific investigation project, combining the works several people, photographers or not, and completely dedicated to the sea.

I haven’t got any more details, but I’ll post them as soon as they’re available.

I’ve been a Flickr user for a while and I’ve been quite pleased with it, I love how it works (like  tagging, geotagging and many other features) and it’s simplicity, but there was one thing that bothered me, not with the site itself but the community: there was plenty of groups dedicated to all kinds of cameras, but none of them to my long time favorite and workshorse. So my guess was to create one and hope there were many other FM2 users, just like me, in the FlickrUniverse waiting for this; the answer is yes and nowadays there are few and talented users, not many but enough, that submited a few hundreds of photos to this group.

Nikon FM2 group @ Flickr

Here’s a small sample of what you may find there, enjoy!

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…And now here’s some cheap promotion to my latest dumb project: there’s a blog, and there’s photos, add some words (not much), mix it all and there you have:

TemujinPhotoBlog

It has begun!
I’m already working in the port of my photography site Temujin Photo to Ruby On Rails, nowadays its just plain HTML. The design will remain the same, the idea is to add a bit more of flexibility on the server side, implement the current external services (stuff like the newsletter and the guestbook) and do a couple of other things; all of this while exploring a new web framework.

As soon as it’s over I’ll be able to move it to the future domain (www.temujinphoto.com) and possibly with some surprises.

I’ll be posting the updates on this here.

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