Jim Willis

EchoDitto

January 22, 2008

EchoDitto

We create vibrant communities online and empower people through the creative use of emerging technologies… .building authentic internet voices and the establishment of a vigorous open source community is critical to the functioning of our democracy.
Fraser Speirs – My Photo Editing Workflow

January 22, 2008

Fraser Speirs – My Photo Editing Workflow

I find that I can usually edit down 350 images to around 50 in 40-60 minutes and I thought I would share how I go about this.
Paulding.com and local online journalism at Ghost of Midnight

January 22, 2008

Paulding.com and local online journalism at Ghost of Midnight

The power of this network is that as it forms and grows it begins to write the narrative of the life of the community. In doing so it naturally challenges the schools, the newspapers, the politicians and the business community.
Valerie Tiberius – Workshop Papers

January 22, 2008

Valerie Tiberius – Workshop Papers

Papers from the Minnesota Interdisciplinary Workshop on Well-Being. This workshop brought together a small number of philosophers and psychologists to discuss our work on well-being and the relationship between our disciplines’ approaches to the topic.
Monmouth County Oral History Archive

January 22, 2008

Monmouth County Oral History Archive

The Monmouth County Library System is celebrating the new millennium by exploring the past through the Oral Histories of 100 Monmouth County citizens. Please journey with us into the past as we learn about our county, state, and country from days gone by.
Fimoculous.com – misc – Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading

January 22, 2008

Fimoculous.com – misc – Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading

Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading
Two recently acquired lifehacks

January 22, 2008

Two recently acquired lifehacks

Hot coffee:

We have two-zone heat (upstairs and downstairs). At night, the downstairs drops to about 58F. By the time I get up, it’s warm downstairs but the cabinet where my coffee mugs are is still cold. The first thing I do is make coffee. Even before I get the kids their drinks or whatever it is they’re screeching for. I look at coffee the same putting on an oxygen mask in plane–do yourself first, then the kids.

But anyway, the mugs are still freezing by the time my coffee’s done. I…
January 15, 2008

W00H00! down to fewer than 25 open tabs in firefox for first time since Thanksgiving
What makes a great photo? (Conscientious)

January 15, 2008

What makes a great photo? (Conscientious)

in the end, it is probably the sum of what every single person has to say that will answer the question “What makes a photo great?” – or maybe not (which would make it all the more interesting).
Atlantic Herald – The Arts Coalition of Asbury Park Debuts Redesigned Website

January 11, 2008

Atlantic Herald – The Arts Coalition of Asbury Park Debuts Redesigned Website

Karin at MCAC let me know about this article covering some work that I’ve recently done for a group down in Asbury.

Current Spins

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Posts Worth Reading:

Free Internet vs Internet of Free Stuff

Letterboxd

Code 3, 2025 – ★★★★
October 19, 2025
Total surprise. Amazing.
Mickey 17, 2025
May 5, 2025
Couldn’t finish this one. Not bad, just not what we needed at the moment.
The Penguin Lessons, 2024 – ★★★½
May 5, 2025
Looking for a comedy, this wasn’t but it did treat a tough topic in an accessible way. Still, not funny especially in light of our current political climate.
Black Bag, 2025 – ★★★★
April 12, 2025
Great spy movie, loved the style and story.
Like Stars on Earth, 2007 – ★★★★½
March 9, 2025
(date approximate)
Eega, 2012 – ★★★★½
March 9, 2025
(date approx)
Ghostlight, 2024 – ★★★★½
January 22, 2025
I love a frame tale and this one is spectacular
3 Idiots, 2009 – ★★★★½
January 14, 2025
Amazzzzzzing. Nothing like it.
Kahaani, 2012 – ★★★½
January 2, 2025
On location India footage was transportive.
Eega, 2012 – ★★★★½
January 1, 2025
so much unexpected happening here. Perfect New Year’s Eve movie.

Reading Notes

Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
December 9, 2024
Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
December 9, 2024
the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
December 9, 2024
• No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
Read: Why Not Bluesky
December 9, 2024
The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
Read: The Tech Coup
December 9, 2024
. The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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