Joe Flood

writer, photographer, web person

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Me, Schmap and the iPhone

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Schmap publishes a series of local city guides.  They found some of my pictures of DC and elsewhere on Flickr and used them (with my permission) in their local guides.  They just released Schmap Guides for the iPhone, basically iPhone optimized versions of their guides.
What was slick and considerate of them was that they emailed me [...]

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Friday’s Links

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Here’s what interested me this week:
How to Shoot EventsI was an event photographer last night for Art-O-Sound at Artomatic.  (Pictures coming soon.)  This post had some good advice about taking photos without being a jerk.
Just a Govy
Getting government to adopt the social media tools that the rest of the world uses is really painful and [...]

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Downing Street Does Twitter

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

In my earlier post on Election 2008 and citizen expectations, I speculated that candidates, once they were elected, would continue to use web 2.0 tools to communicate with their supporters.
The Brits are one step ahead of us. Number 10 Downing Street, home to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has its own Twitter feed. Even [...]

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Fembot Sends Stats Soaring

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

A great feature that Flickr added recently was Flickr stats. With it, you can not only see how many views your pictures are getting but you can see how much traffic an individual picture is coming from - and where that traffic is coming from.
On Sunday, I went to the “Japan! Culture + Hyperculture” [...]

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Madrid is like New York in the 70s

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Prostitutes openly wait for customers on the Gran Via.

A more tolerant attitude toward graffiti.

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Comida en Madrid

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Bocadilla jamon y cerveza.

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En Madrid

January 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Yummy ham in Madrid.

Madrillenos on a very warm January day.

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Handmade Correspondence in the Twenty-First Century

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Rose is the daughter of a couple friends of mine. She was in my photo “Rose Runs” that was in the DCist Exposed show and has appeared in the local paper a couple times.
And now a picture I took of her was used to illustrate an article on handmade correspondence. When you’re six, [...]

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Migrating Flickr Pics to SmugMug

November 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

I do love Flickr.  But I don’t like their prints, finding them to be really washed out and disappointing.  However, I like SmugMug’s prints but didn’t want to go to the trouble of downloading all my Flickr pics and then uploading them to SmugMug.
Enter SmuggLr, a  Firefox extension that promises:
Photo migration from flickr, ImageStation [...]

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Reverend Billy Pic Illustrates Column

November 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

One of my pictures of Reverend Billy was used in an Amy Goodman column on how Americans buy too much stuff.
The Reverend has an excellent documentary coming out this month called What Would Jesus Buy. Produced by Morgan Spurlock, I saw it earlier this year at SilverDocs and it’s excellent. I think people [...]

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