Category Archives: Photography

A New Year, A New Look

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In lieu of actual content, I have changed the look of the site. I had been contemplating moving Tombrarian to a different host so that I could fiddle with it even more, but WordPress is providing more and more widgets and other ways of customizing the templates that I’m pretty content leaving it where it is. I was able to find a template that allows for a custom header which is something I’ve been hankering for. So, the image in the header is a picture I took. Currently, it’s of Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas (More of my Red Rock photos are here). Obviously, the cool part of the customizable header is that I can change the image whenever I want. That makes me happy.

So, if you have any recollection of the old look and/or have any opinion of the new look, let me know.

Librarians Are the New Black

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Here’s another comment about the library world coming from outside the library world. Thomas Hawk, the excellent photographer of Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connections, comments on Sony’s assertion that its new book reader is “sexier than a librarian:”

“Sony says that their new book reader thingy is “sexier than a librarian.” There is just no way I’m buying that one. Nice try though Sony. I’m sure the reader’s probably just fine *but* no way is it sexier than a librarian.”

There also are some funny comments on his photo hosting site. I leave it up to you to decide the level of sarcasm.

Searching for Images

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Thomas Hawk, of Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection, posted interesting image search comparisons between social networking sites and algorithm-based search sites. The social sites returned much more appropriate images because of their tagging. He runs four searches through Flickr, Live Search, Yahoo Image search, Google Image search, and Ask.com.  His conclusion is that the best results come from Flickr, and, as the title of his post says, the future of image search belongs to social search.

Hawk is the CEO of the social image site Zooomr and would have a vested interest in saying the social networking sites have better results, but if you look at his searches, you would be hard pressed to disagree with his assessment.

Of course, the social networking sites are searching a more select body of materials, but his examples certainly show the potential benefits of tagging.