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I was on twitter the other day and some twitted (is that a word) about an author teleseminar that they had phoned into to listen to. It was with Seth Godin the author of The Dip and Tribes and hosted by Elizabeth Marshall. I just bought his book Tribes and so I thought I would like to hear this but I really didn’t want to phone in.  So I went and registed for the teleseminar and after it was done they emailed me a link to download the mp3. 

Anyway I listened to one of the teleseminars and it was great, a bunch of authors getting together to discuss their works and expanding on their ideas. Basically a coffe shop discusion on their ideals. So judge for yourselves and check it out. If you want full access to the mp3’s then just sign up to Elizabeth Marshall’s website and it will send you a password to access the library. 

Enjoy

At my day job we are in the midst of a pretty big change in the way we are interacting internally within out systems. To date we have been interacting with a really ad-hock method which has caused a lot of dependencey issues and headache, especially when trying to upgrade anything.

So on our path toward SMWDA or Stable Modular Well Documented API’s, I have some across this article on the MSDN site. Now don’t let the fact that it is in MSDN Magazine and written by someone that develops on Microsoft’s platform deter you from reading it, it is a good read. It will also give you a little bit of an insight on the direction our code bases should be going.

Open Closed Principle

I was going to give a quick summary but the article isn’t that long and it does a better job than I can.

Here it is my weakest link, my deepest confesion, the truth behind my madness. I have a problem completing things.

Where, you ask, does this confessional come from? Well I read this blog post by Brian Auer on Epic Edits, My Weakest Area of Photography. This post was exactly what the title says, his weakest points in his photography and how he is going about to improve on them. This got me thinking about my weakest point in photography and life but that is to deep for this blog and we will stick with photography.

Post Processing

I would say this is one of my most inconsistent parts of my photo process. I go out and take hundreds of photo’s and instead of taking them off the camera right away and starting the sorting, processing and ratign of my photo’s I let them sit there and forget about them for a while. This is bringing me to a mountain of images that I either forget I have or get overwelmed with when I try to start the actual process.

How I am going to fix it

Organize – Getting To grips with image management

Organize – Getting to grips with image management 2

Organize – See it through

Printing Photo’s

This on is along the same lines as the previous in that it is a procrastination issue as well. I am alway saying that I need to print my photo’s be it as a framed photo for my wall or as a photobook that I can put on my coffe table for myseld and others to enjoy.

How I am going to fix this

Posting online

I have my photoblog on photoquarium that I post to in spurts but not consistent enough. Also I need to post to my flickr account as well as othere sites like vazaar. I need to get my photo’s more exposure and critisism, I am not sure how I can progress and get better if I don’t get opinions on my work. Maybe I should spend more time in places like photophlow where I can chat with people and get my photo’s critiqued there.