Joe Flood

writer, photographer, web person

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The Internet Life of One Photo

July 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · raves

A few weeks ago, I received the following email:
Hi Joe,
I moved from Scottsdale, Arizona, to California last summer, and brought an unfinished painting of Papago Buttes along with me.  I looked around for a photograph to help me finish the painting, and I found one that seems to be attributed to you on Wikipedia.  The [...]

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Why Doesn’t Government Use the Web to Organize Its Work?

March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · rants

I’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. It’s a brilliant book on the information revolution that we’re going through. He believes that this revolution is as momentous as the development of the printing press, which triggered the Reformation and religious wars. The rise of amateurs and the expansion of consumer choice has meant [...]

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