Author: Don

  • Old Sigh Race Series 2013

    Here are some photos from the first night of the 2013 Old Sigh Race series, and my first real trip into sailboat racing photography. Unfortunately the committee boat which I was on broke down and would not start after we turned it off to start the races so all of these photos are taken from […]

  • Simple post processing for landscape photos

    So a lot of people have asked me how I photoshop my landscape photos so I finally got around to doing a little post about it. Surprisingly it is actually really quick. Below are screen grabs from photoshop of the steps.

  • Quick and Dirty Instagram API implementation

    Last Friday I spent the morning looking into the Instagram API thinking it would be cool to have our members be able to share their photos on the site via instagram. So this is a quick and dirty implementation but it works. There are a couple of things to keep in mind though. Instagram has […]

  • West Falmouth Harbor Sunset

  • TV and the Internet

    Why are cable companies ruining the internet? OK so maybe they are not ruining the internet but they are definitely ruining what I want the internet to be.

  • The Daily…really?

    The Daily Rupert Murdoch’s newest media venture is on the street and although I don’t see anyway that it will survive it does seem they have done a really nice job building it.

  • Newspaper Conference a bit disappointing

    This past weekend was the annual NENPA newspaper conference here in New England. I went in with high hopes. Having been following the national discussion on the future of newspapers and journalism very closely for the past couple of years. The chance to go listen to the experts talk about these challenges and find out […]

  • GMail desktop notifications

    This is something I have been waiting for, well since I started using Gmail. I have tried the chrome plugins for notification but non of them really accomplished what I was really looking for. As soon as I saw the GMail blog post about these notifications I turned them on and I don’t think I […]

  • Print vs the Internet

    This is a new category for the blog I plan on using it to share my thoughts and vision  about the ongoing battle between New and Old media.  It is a very interesting time in news as the web gains market share and Newspapers try to hold on to what they once had. For me […]

  • Chrome Web Store First Impressions

    The Chrome web store is now live and, at least in my opinion it is very cool. I keep reading about how this is no more than glorified bookmarks, and why is this necessary. These questions are coming from a lot of the tech journalists I read and look up to, I would really expect […]