Allen Lew’s Thoughts

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

• Openroad.tv is using my photo of the Napa River for their Napa River Adventures guide.
• Schmap put my picture of Mumm Winery on their Napa Valley map.
• My photo with Sergey Brin was used by The Park Record newspaper of Park City, Utah for a feature called 6 Degrees of Park City.

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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.

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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.

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Started strong, but started blanking in the last minute.

(via Download Squad)

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George 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)

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