"No photo posting to FriendFeed yet? If the pictures you're posting are of your doings, you can use ping.fm to post them to OurDoings, and FriendFeed can be set up to show thumbnails from OurDoings posts." - Bruce Lewis
"After I implemented the world's best photo-sharing site using Scheme I discovered it was also a decent blogging platform. See my blogs here: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis?..." - Bruce Lewis
"Ricky, those aren’t so far away. We’re already at about $150 for wifi photo frames that lock you into one particular online service, and roughly $200 for wifi photo frames without lock-in." - Bruce Lewis
"Do you always tell the people you're interviewing what the maximum budgeted salary is for the position?
If the answer is no, then withholding their previous salary isn't hardball negotiation, it's simply negotiating on the same terms you are." - Bruce Lewis
"FMF, that's great that you're successfully doing a collage every year. If you can keep that up, don't replace it with a digital frame. Maybe you want a digital frame anyway, but the physical collages are of real lasting value to your family. I bought a Samsung SPF-83V (800x600 with wifi) early this year, and it's been great. Other people have reported issues with this model and WPA, but my home network is open so that wasn't an issue. It set me back $230, but you can find them for under $200 these days if you shop around (bountii.com). MelMoitzen brings up a great point about cropping. The SPF-83V has an orientation sensor such that you can turn it on its side and it rotates the pictures accordingly. Then your horizontal pictures suffer instead of your vertical pictures. I fixed the cropping problem by adding features to my photo-sharing site, which you're all welcome to try, by the way. You can create a feed for the wireless frame that includes only your horizontal photos, only your..." - Bruce Lewis
"Yes, lots of bad code fast is half the reason I use Scheme almost exclusively now after 12 years of C. The other half is converting bad code to good code fast." - Bruce Lewis
Sure, Paul, lots of people have *started*. But don't worry, there are other things you're good at. :-) - Bruce Lewis
"You're never going to make a photo blog as nice as April's. The best solution is probably to marry April. That worked for Paul. Unfortunately, it's a solution that doesn't scale to a large number of users." - Gabe
"Some wifi photo frames can read Media RSS. OurDoings can optionally just send the photos that match the frame's orientation. FrameChannel can send weather or news headlines to your photo frame." - Bruce Lewis
"After a year you will have spent $220. At that price you could buy a wifi photo frame that supports Media RSS, so it would work with Flickr, Picasa, OurDoings, etc. Some photo-sharing sites let you upload by email." - Bruce Lewis
"Ed, are you saying the Pandigital doesn’t support Media RSS? A customer was asking me about that kind of frame recently and I didn’t know. The options for inexpensive frames that support Media RSS are unfortunately limited." - Bruce Lewis
"I'd sure like to see a statement about who's writing this stuff and how final it is. Still, it's a lot better than secreting the process away behind locked doors, the way our current energy policy was made." - Bruce Lewis
"I continue to find everywhere I go that America remains a repository for people's hopes and desires. That despite the terrible erosion of our standing around the world, for many we remain a house of dreams. One thousand George Bushes and one thousand Dick Cheneys will never be able to tear that house down. That is something only we can do, and we're not going to let that happen." - Bruce Lewis
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"Look up a nearby Montessori school and see if they have an open house coming up. It's a must-see. Especially at the youngest levels, it's surprising how capable 3-5-year-old children are of choosing work, doing work, and putting it away when they're done. I had previously thought that a room full of 3-5-year-olds would inevitably be in chaos. Higher ages respond well to the opportunity to do real things too, especially in the teen years. Teens are dying to do something real, but are kept in a largely artificial environment. Those moments on the edge of your seat in a large lecture hall were part of an overall educational experience that included things beforehand that helped you appreciate the lecture itself, and things afterward that let you exercise the knowledge and/or inspiration you got in lecture. MIT students spend maybe 10-12 hours a week in lecture. High school students should spend less time than that. Higher-quality lecture time is a good thing, but given the current state..." - Bruce Lewis
"I strongly suggest you do read Ackoff's article. It could change your thinking. Your post here is clearly and eloquently pointing people in the wrong direction. We need a learning-centric educational system, not a teaching-centric one. The idea of "scaling up" superstar teachers to have one-way communication with more students presupposes that the problem is not enough students getting superstar teachers. What classes did you love at MIT? Were they totally lecture-based? I loved the 6.001 lectures (I took it Spring, 1987) but what I really loved was the labs. The best education happens when it's interactive in five or six directions. A teacher teaches a student, a student interacts with educational materials, the student gives feedback to the teacher, the teacher adjusts the materials. You don't get that kind of interaction with a 1000:1 student:teacher ratio. The Montessori method emphasizes the triangle of child, teacher (except they don't call them teachers; I forget what they call..." - Bruce Lewis
"You are right to be puzzled about this. Theoretically, ideas are not inventions, and ideas are not patentable. Starting a decade ago, for all intents and purposes, ideas have been patentable. Hopefully this recent decision is the first of many steps back in the right direction." - Bruce Lewis
