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lifeasdaddy - test post for photos

I'm just testing posting photos to see if I can get it to show a larger thumbnail..

Looks like it worked.  (This is an old photo of Ed)

lifeasdaddy - Irish Parliament bans staffer access to blogs.

Doc Searls has got a good blog post about the Oireachtas banning employees from reading or writing blogs. Doc says Speak Freely. Just don't read any.   

Doc also links to tuppenceworth.ie which blogs about the blog ban. At tuppenceworth, I noted this:

Section 18 of the FOI Act allows anyone personally effected by a public body’s decision to demand an explanation of why they took it.

Sounds like a good idea.  Government of the people by the people for the people.

A seditious idea in some countries, but not here.

lifeasdaddy - Australian War Memorial has a blog

The Australian War Memorial has started a blog about an upcoming exhibition about T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) and the Australian Light Horse Regiments in Palestine during World War I.

The blog is here. 

It's got a really good visual and navigational design.  The fascination lies in the window it gives into the curatorial process.  Notice too the usual use of links behind the photographs on the blog.  On most blogs if you click on a photo it brings up a larger version of the photograph.  On this blog, clicking on the photo sometimes links to the AWM catalogue page for the image or topic, thus giving some in-depth background.

As many of you know, I've got a great interest in film, and the movie Lawrence of Arabia, a biopic about T. E. Lawrence is one I recommend.  It's number 30 on the AFI 100 years, 100 cheers list  and it's also on Jim Fleming's list of 101 movies you must see before you die.  Of course, being Hollywood, some historical inaccuracies occur in the film.

My interest in film led me to discover the AWM blog, too. 

I've noticed that a new film directed by Clint Eastwood Flags of Our Fathers was recently released in the USA and has been garnering some good reviews.  At it's core is Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph of raising the USA flag over Iwo Jima during  World War II.   

It was on my mind to research a bit further about Iwo Jima.  I wasn't sure if the Australian military had played any part in the battle for Iwo Jima, so I went to the Australian War Memorial  home page to search the collection.  A search on "Iwo Jima" returned only one result; for a propaganda leaflet.  But on the plus side, I did notice the pointer to the new blog!

lifeasdaddy - G'Day World podcast auctions advertising space on eBay.

Cameron Reilly is Ebay auctioning some advertising space on his podcast G'Day World. 

Read his blog post about it here. 

lifeasdaddy - Good interview with Grady Booch

I've been reading Grady Booch's blog for over a year.  John Simmons has put up this interview with Mr. Booch.  The format's a bit stilted, but Mr. Booch is a generous and informative interview subject.

If you've got an interest in computers and their impact on our lives, and you don't read Booch, then you've missing out on something good.

Grady Booch is an IBM fellow, and in the interview he describes his job as:

My role as a Fellow is to invent the future and to destroy bureaucracy, I’m a designated free radical for IBM, and it’s my job to disturb the norm, to think outside of the box, to make people uncomfortable with the status quo, plus have I have a license to do so.

How good is that?

multilingual challenge

Rohit Bhargava who writes the Influential Interactive Marketing blog has written about the multilingual challenge. 

He's suggested a great way to use Google Translate.  Use it for your blog - and assist international readers.

I've taken his challenge,and suggestion, and you'll notice the links for translating this blog in the margin.

(pointage from Trevor Cook)

Tags: multilingual challenge.