Allen Lew’s Thoughts

My answer for “life, the universe, and everything”

My Photos of Napa and Sergey featured

June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Even though I’m not a professional photographer, a couple of my photos were used in a couple of publications recently:

→ 1 CommentTags: Photos · · ·

We Can Do This Video

April 11th, 2008 · Comments Off

So the Los Angeles Urban League, my employer, put together a celebratory video called “We Can Do This.” If it seems familiar, it’s probably because it resembles the Will.I.Am “Yes We Can Video“. They then showed this video at the big event called the Whitney Young Dinner last week. I was also asked to be in the video, though my part is only about a second (from the 2:36 mark). You may however recognize some of the people who have bigger parts in the video.

Comments OffTags: Videos · · ·

Los Angeles Urban League Domestic Violence PSAs

February 15th, 2008 · Comments Off

The domestic violence program at my workplace, the Los Angeles Urban League, put together these Public Service Announcements (PSAs) for the public. They’ll be shown today at the Pan African Film Festival.

Comments OffTags: Videos · · · · ·

How many countries can you name in five minutes?

February 6th, 2008 · Comments Off

53

Started strong, but started blanking in the last minute.

(via Download Squad)

Comments OffTags: General · ·

Check out GMU’s Center for History and New Media Web projects

January 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off

Center for History and New Media at George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has been really putting out some great online academic tools. They’re the ones behind the Zotero research extension for Firefox. Now they are developing some software for web sites like Omeka, an open source content management system for museum collections and exhibits, and ScholarPress, plugins designed to make Wordpress more usable for college classes.

ScholarPress has two plugins right now, Courseware, for adding syllabi and assignments, and WPBook, a way of converting your Wordpress blog as a Facebook Application. The two developers, Jeremey Boggs and Dave Lester, also host a podcast called THAT podcast and have posted a tutorial on using the Scholarpress plugins along with an interview with Matt Mullenweg as the first episode. I certainly admire them for the impressive amount of work they have put in to all of these projects and look forward to trying their tools out in the future. (via Photo Matt)

Comments OffTags: Software · Technology · · · · · · · ·