Real Estate for Sale Network Launches Listing Marketplace for Realtors in Alabama, Powered by IDX Realtor Pro

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Real Estate for Sale Network Launches
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Kansas, Powered by IDX Realtor Pro

Real Estate for Sale Network Launches
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Kansas, Powered by IDX Realtor Pro 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
Eugene based IDX, Inc. today announced that the Real Estate For Sale Network has selected IDX Realtor Pro to power its newest real estate marketplace website called Real Estate For Sale In Kansas. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Real Estate for Sale Network Launches
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Ohio, Powered by IDX Realtor Pro

Real Estate for Sale Network Launches
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Ohio, Powered by IDX Realtor Pro 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
Eugene based IDX, Inc. today announced that the Real Estate For Sale Network has selected IDX Realtor Pro to power its newest real estate marketplace website called Real Estate For Sale In Ohio. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Real Estate for Sale Network Launches
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Indiana, Powered by IDX Realtor Pro

Real Estate for Sale Network Launches
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Indiana, Powered by IDX Realtor Pro 09/02/2004 02:06 AM
Eugene based IDX, Inc. today announced that the Real Estate For Sale Network has selected IDX Realtor Pro to power its newest real estate marketplace website called Real Estate For Sale In Indiana. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

IDX Realtor Pro is Selected to Power New
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Washington

IDX Realtor Pro is Selected to Power New
Listing Marketplace for Realtors in
Washington 08/29/2004 02:01 AM
Eugene based IDX, Inc. today announced that the Real Estate For Sale Network has selected IDX Realtor Pro to power its newest real estate marketplace website called Real Estate For Sale In Washington. [PRWEB Aug 29, 2004]

Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™

Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™ 06/24/2005 03:14 PM
Just Real Estate Listings™, an online real estate advertising company, has launched a new web site offering the Realtor™ community a free way to advertise real estate properties on the internet. This service also includes free data integration services which eliminates the need for users to manually enter data. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

The Ultimate $17,900,000
For-Sale-By-Owner Real Estate Listing is
Now on eBay

The Ultimate $17,900,000
For-Sale-By-Owner Real Estate Listing is
Now on eBay 04/12/2005 02:16 AM
Ebay, the self described “World’s Online Marketplace” had an overall income growth of over 50% in 2004 according to Hoovers.com. Ebay’s real estate listings are also expanding exponentially. But, there is just one problem. How do buyers quickly find the kind of real estate they want if they don’t have time to search the thousands of Ebay listings? [PRWEB Apr 12, 2005]

The Revolutionary Internet Real Estate
Listing Website listfromhome.com Is
Being Offered For Sale

The Revolutionary Internet Real Estate
Listing Website listfromhome.com Is
Being Offered For Sale 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Business Wire UK Apr 13 2005 6:38PM GMT

Internet users get access to real estate
marketplace

Internet users get access to real estate
marketplace 02/03/2003 10:14 AM
Search engines such as Google.com or Yahoo.com can connect home seekers with particular agents and real estate companies, many that link to the multiple ...

Online Business for Sale Marketplace
BizQuest Launches Redesign of its
Popular Website

Online Business for Sale Marketplace
BizQuest Launches Redesign of its
Popular Website 06/30/2004 03:17 AM
Business for sale listing exchange website BizQuest.com announced a major redesign to its popular business for sale website today. [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Santa Barbara Real Estate Information -
Free MLS Access, Local Real Estate
Listings and Over 50 Local Links are now
Available at Realestatesantabarbara.info

Santa Barbara Real Estate Information -
Free MLS Access, Local Real Estate
Listings and Over 50 Local Links are now
Available at Realestatesantabarbara.info 03/14/2005 04:41 PM
The most comprehensive source for Santa Barbara, Montecito, & Goleta Real Estate and general information is now available at www.realestatesantabarbara.info - the website was created and developed by Paul Luoma, a sales-associate with Century 21 A Hart Realty, Inc. [PRWEB Mar 13, 2005]

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents 05/31/2004 01:52 PM
Businesses for sale in Northern and Southern California reached a record number 368 business & franchise sales this past week from business brokers, small business owners, & real estate agents for the week of May 17, 2004 thru May 23, 2004. [PRWEB May 27, 2004]

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars (Reuters)

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars (Reuters) 06/02/2004 03:30 PM
Reuters - Rising interest rates have yet to cool white-hot real estate prices. Perhaps that's why the concept of virtual home ownership has captured the imagination of a growing number of online gamers, who are plunking down real cash for their own slice of the digital frontier.

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars 06/03/2004 03:29 PM

Real Network launches legal movie
download service

Real Network launches legal movie
download service 06/14/2004 08:20 AM

Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California.

Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California. 06/23/2004 03:08 AM
Northern And Southern California Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales. These Small Businesses Were Sold By Business Brokers, Small Business Owners, & Real Estate Agents Throughout California. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Don't Bet on Real Estate

Don't Bet on Real Estate 03/29/2005 09:06 AM
There are good and not-so-good ways to invest in real estate.

"Real estate"

"Real estate" 04/08/2005 10:10 AM

Real Estate Commissions are Too Low

Real Estate Commissions are Too Low 06/22/2005 02:23 AM

People who sell $1 million condos often complain that paying a 6 percent standard (read "fixed by collusion" among realtors) commission is too much ($60,000 for what might only be a few days of work).  Economists who have studied the real estate market, however, find that in some ways the commission is too low because realtors don't work very hard to sell clients' houses compared to their personal houses.  In other words they sell a customer's house relatively cheap so that it will sell quickly rather than work for many weeks to get the best price and 6% of the extra.

Why haven't we seen anyone propose a commission structure that says the realtor gets a 25% commission... but only on the amount above the assessed value of the property?  Your typical $1 million NY or Boston apartment is assessed at maybe $850,000 and could be sold for that price with almost no effort in a few days so the commission paid on such a sale shouldn't be more than $1000.  If a realtor could sell the place for $1.2 million via clever marketing, however, she should be entitled to a fat commission.

Real Estate & REITs

Real Estate & REITs 02/17/2004 10:13 AM
Reitnut picks his 'bluest of the blue" for 2004.

The Real Estate Game

The Real Estate Game 09/08/2004 08:51 AM
Some of you have purchased homes before, so you know a bit about how the process works: Mortgage Approval, Appraisals, Surveys, Title Searches, Purchase Agreements, Stipulation Sheets, Closing, Whining, Bickering, Signing 1,000,000 pages, Moving, blah blah blah... Even though it's a scary thought when you first start, and you've probably heard enough horror stories to not want to go through the process, it's really not that bad. It's actually pretty easy if you take a little time and learn about it. It makes more sense than most college curricula, and it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Literally anyone can play the game if they have a dedication to making things happen. This is an introduction to real estate investing using my 4 years of personal experience as a guide. While all of my experience has been on the U.S. side of the pond, I'm sure enough of this information will apply to everyone to make it worthwhile. (This was originally submitted as a diary at the other site)

Real Estate Management Software 1.19

Real Estate Management Software 1.19 01/03/2005 07:56 AM
A real estate listings management system.

Find AD real estate online

Find AD real estate online 06/08/2004 05:50 AM
Ameinfo.com - Tue Jun 8, 05:29 am GMT

Choosing the Right Real Estate Agent

Choosing the Right Real Estate Agent 05/26/2004 07:33 AM
A good agent can serve you very well -- so choose carefully.

Homepage Real Estate Allocation

Homepage Real Estate Allocation 02/10/2003 01:08 PM

Accidental real estate porn

Accidental real estate porn 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Xeni Jardin: Look closely at the third photo from the bottom on this realtor's website promoting a home for sale. Either the snapshot-taker failed to notice two dogs humping sur l'herbe, or this is an example of highly sophisticated subliminal advertising strategies in the real estate industry. Link (Thanks, Manero)

Real Estate Management Software 1.0

Real Estate Management Software 1.0 09/14/2004 02:37 PM
A real estate listings management system.

Real estate Web sites rock

Real estate Web sites rock 02/10/2004 08:10 PM
The 10 highest ranked Web sites in the brand ratings report in order were Yahoo!, MSN, Microsoft, AOL, Google, eBay, Amazon, Lycos Network, About Network and ...

M M M My Sharona... M M M My real estate
agent?

M M M My Sharona... M M M My real estate
agent? 03/22/2005 04:37 PM
M M M My Sharona... M M M My real estate agent? Sharona Alperin was only 17 when she inspired the Knack's 1979 hit single " ;My Sharona." Now she sells real estate in Los Angeles...On the flip side of lyrical fame, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer inspired another set of lyrics in 1979 -- the Boomtown Rats' haunting song "I Don't Like Mondays" -- which chronicled Spencer's slaying of eight school children and a principal at an elementary school near her San Diego, CA-area home. It's not an urban legend: Spencer told a reporter who called her during the 6 1/2 -hour siege that she opened fire because, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." Spencer reminds us today that schoolya rd shootings are not a new phenomenon. Now 42, Brenda is serving a 25-year sentence and is up for parole soon...

Real Estate Investment Resources?

Real Estate Investment Resources? 07/07/2004 01:09 AM
As the result of an on-going discussion among some friends, I'm looking for some good real estate investment resources (residential, not commercial). Namely, I'd like to find any or all of the following: Books Magazines Web sites A local REI (Real Estate Investment) club Someone local who's been at it a while Bloggers who have written or still to write about it Nothing may come of this, but I've gone past the "idle curiosity" phase and am moving into the...

Worlds First 3G Real Estate Solution

Worlds First 3G Real Estate Solution 07/26/2004 05:24 AM
3G Jul 26 2004 8:54AM GMT

Kmart: Retail or Real Estate?

Kmart: Retail or Real Estate? 08/16/2004 02:21 PM
Lately, the company's retail operation has been lagging behind sales of its locations.

Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs

Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs 08/19/2004 12:57 PM
Is real estate a good hedge against inflation?

E-commerce = in-E-fficiency II (Real
Estate)

E-commerce = in-E-fficiency II (Real
Estate) 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

Let's get depressed two days in a row...  It is the 10th anniversary of the consumer Web.  We have very good mapping services both on- and off-line.  A wide variety of sites are visited by people from all over North America every day.  Yet when people want to sell a house they almost always are forced to pay 6% to a realtor, just as they did 30 years ago before all of this fancy computer technology was widespread.

Has anyone tried eBay House?  Why doesn't it work?

Finding a Real Estate Agent

Finding a Real Estate Agent 01/09/2004 09:46 PM
[This is part of a series of posts on the home buying process I'm going thru. To see the full set, visit the house category archives.] Over the last several weeks I've spent quite a bit of time on-line looking at the Bay Area housing market. Looking at MLS listings, realtor sites, craigslist, and so on. I've been in touch with a few sellers. There are a few things I've learned so far: Many town house and condo properties are...

Internet lowers real estate commissions

Internet lowers real estate commissions 05/19/2004 10:27 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 20 2004 2:51AM GMT

360° Virtual Tours for SW Florida Real
Estate - Only $99

360° Virtual Tours for SW Florida Real
Estate - Only $99 03/24/2005 05:28 AM
Listing360 provides quality 360° virtual tours for Southwest Florida Real Estate. Realtors on listing appointments can now have a competitive edge by offering their prospective clients a panoramic virtual tour for the affordable price of only $99. [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]

Building Mom's Real Estate Empire

Building Mom's Real Estate Empire 05/05/2004 07:00 AM
Mathew Emmert wants to make Mom a landlord in the banking industry.

Traffic still king on real estate Web
sites

Traffic still king on real estate Web
sites 11/05/2003 08:21 PM
They also will compare the per-qualified-lead costs of paying for traffic into their MLS data-rich Web sites with search engine optimization services, Google ...

Primedia not new to fragmented world of
real estate

Primedia not new to fragmented world of
real estate 02/26/2003 01:32 PM
Search engine giant Google is the master of the featured listing model and many other firms are expected to get into this business. ...
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Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.

Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead. 12/02/2003 10:13 PM
I had a 120gig SATA Hard drive in my G5. It died. Dead blocks all over. My last full backup...

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''"

""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''" 05/05/2004 09:39 AM

Dead pixels instead of dead trees

Dead pixels instead of dead trees 12/22/2004 01:49 AM

I love books, I love browsing stacks, I love libraries, I love Powell's in Portland, I like collecting books, I always have a stack nearby to read, I love looking through picture books, and I love books even though I didn't really become much of a reader until the end of my college years (I never read for fun until then). Plunging into the Internet fed my book addiction further, as I had to read dozens of computer classics to get up to speed and stay ahead of the curve. Every computer desk I've had until recently was flanked by bookshelves loaded with titles.

Earlier this year, I remember hearing Cory Doctorow give a talk about how ebooks were going to rule the world and folks would abandon the printed page for the laptop screen. I thought it was a good talk, but I felt the thesis was a bit ahead of its time. There's really no comparison between curling up with a book and a blanket in front of a fireplace, versus trying to read thousands of words on a screen.

Last weekend I was doing some house cleaning and I kept finding stacks of books. A stack next to the reading chairs. A stack on the coffee table. A stack beside my bed. All these stacks contained books I bought in 2004, but never read. Some, I got halfway through, but even more I got maybe ten pages in. A few I never even cracked open.

When I think back to the last three books I enjoyed, they were all heard on my iPod, while on a road trip. I can't recall the last book I finished in my hands.

I'm going to take a holiday trip soon to a fairly remote location where there's not much to do besides read. I'm going to sit and read the only book I've wanted to read this year, and I have a feeling it might just be one of the last dead tree books I read for a long time.

As much as I didn't agree with Cory back during his E-tech talk, I'm finally realizing it's coming true in my own life. I read thousands of words everyday on my monitors and I rarely take time to read anything on the printed page, and there's no sign of reversal on that trend. The scariest thing for the bookfan inside me is that I don't think it's bad thing, either.

Long live the ebook. Long live the audiobook. So long, dead trees.

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive?

Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive? 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
In television these days, there is hardly a show that doesn’t have the blood flowing or the boobies showing. It is hard to find a show that makes it on wit alone. Till a few weeks ago, I thought I had found the saving grace with Showtime’s original show, Dead Like Me. I guess a few executives didn’t share my opinion. The fight is far from over though. In the past shows would have died…

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DOS -- not dead yet

DOS -- not dead yet 12/05/2003 03:21 AM
DOS -- that's a word you may not have heard in a while. After all, Microsoft proudly claimed "DOS is dead" when it released Windows XP. DOS is a stable and well-known operating system, but the same can be said for Linux, and some might argue that even Windows XP has become stable. So why would you run DOS when you have these newer, better operating systems?

Ten gig FC is all but dead

Ten gig FC is all but dead 04/02/2005 07:23 AM
TechWorld Apr 2 2005 11:18AM GMT

Not Dead.

Not Dead. 04/19/2004 01:33 AM
I'd better leave this on here for the night so I don't wake up to a deluge of email tomorrow morning. The Zen Garden has been down all day, as has been well reported by now. A whois comes...

dead, dead, dead

dead, dead, dead 12/03/2003 06:09 PM

Wow, they really did kill MP3.com. So much of the net's history gone in a flash, I do hope they create some mechanism (that isn't laden with DRM) to bring back music hosting or anyone that can record a song at home on their PC.

I bet GarageBand.com takes off in the absence of MP3.com, they were like a better version, though they require users and musicians to actively participate for it to work.

Yes, It's Still Dead

Yes, It's Still Dead 09/06/2004 11:22 PM
6 long years after the introduction of the bondi-blue iMac, reporters are still writing about the death of floppy disk.
Well, at least it's still better read than the upcoming death of Apple Computer, Inc.

The pop-up ad is dead (nearly)

The pop-up ad is dead (nearly) 02/18/2004 05:55 AM
Europe in brief

The PC Is Not Dead

The PC Is Not Dead 03/22/2005 03:39 PM

WAP Is Dead?

WAP Is Dead? 08/10/2004 07:27 PM
The Feature Aug 10 2004 11:14PM GMT

Is the PDA dead?

Is the PDA dead? 06/02/2004 07:51 PM

Discs Are So Dead

Discs Are So Dead 04/05/2005 06:15 AM
Two new formats aim to bury the DVD, but web distribution will kill them all. By Robert Capps from Wired magazine.

NYC to GOP: Drop Dead

NYC to GOP: Drop Dead 08/19/2004 05:55 AM
COLUMNIST WARNS: BAD TIMES AHEAD FOR GOP CONVENTIONEERS IN NYC

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The fax machine: not dead yet

The fax machine: not dead yet 12/31/2003 01:10 PM
BBC News article about the lowly fax machine and how it hangs on in the face of email, text messaging, and the everything else that...

Is Linking Dead?

Is Linking Dead? 08/10/2004 10:48 AM
Simple question - complex answer.

Are Bookmarks Dead?

Are Bookmarks Dead? 01/25/2004 09:24 AM

What's Next: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites: There is a $378,000 study underway to figure out why no one uses heir bookmarks.

...bookmark lists have become "information closets" that hold a jumble of sites people never return to. Only hyperorganized users sort sites into folders, clean out dead links or click on inscrutable addresses to figure out why they were bookmarked in the first place

And, not to beat a dead horse or anything, Microsoft is again going to rei nforce my point that taxonomies just may be dead and you really just need good search.

...a senior researcher with Microsoft who is also part of the University of Washington team, has helped develop a program called Stuff I've Seen. The software is designed to help people recall documents like e-mail messages and Web sites through a unified search interface. Keyword search results include related Web sites already visited, regardless of whether they have been bookmarked.

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The Floppy is Dead

The Floppy is Dead 09/07/2004 09:48 PM

CNN is proclaiming the death of the floppy drive. If you ask me the floppy has been dead for some time now. Once it became easy to email attachments I all but forgot they even existed. I think the deciding factor for most people was probably the widespread use of USB drives and CDRs. Let's not forget the grief that Apple received for being the first company smart enough to eliminate the floppy drive when the iMac was introduced five years ago.

So what's next? What time tested piece of PC hardware is the next to go?

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Dawn of the dead?

Dawn of the dead? 08/31/2004 01:55 PM
David Pescovitz: A fertility scientist at the Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine, Panayiotis Zavo, claims to have taken cells from dead humans and cloned them. He stopped short of implanting the embryos, but the scientific community is in an uproar. According to New Scientist, one of three cases used DNA from a young girl killed in an automobile wreck. Apparently her parents kept the tissue in the refrigerator for a few days until sending them along to the maverick scientist.

“This man preys on the strong desires of the most vulnerable people in society - giving them false hopes,” says Robin Lovell-Badge, head of developmental genetics at the UK's National Institute for Medical Research. Other scientists argue that, even if cloning a person were possible, the risk of major birth defects is huge.

Zavos's claims have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Link

A Third of the Dead Are Said to Be
Children

A Third of the Dead Are Said to Be
Children 12/28/2004 03:02 AM
Survivors arranged for mass burials and searched for tens of thousands of the missing in countries thousands of miles apart.

Dead Bug Funeral Kit

Dead Bug Funeral Kit 11/17/2003 07:47 PM
From David Barringer's site: The Dead Bug Funeral Kit comes with an Illustrated Buggy Book of Eulogies with Ribbon Bookmark, Casket, Grave Marker, White Clay Flower, Burial Scroll, and Pouch of Grass Seed. "We are deeply saddened by your loss. We hope the Dead Bug Kit will honor your bug." Link (Thanks, Invi sible Cowgirl!)

Are Taxonomies Dead?

Are Taxonomies Dead? 01/09/2004 09:58 PM

The taxonomy was always supposed to be the be-all and end-all of information architecture. A good, solid category structure was how all the information in an enterprise was supposed to fit together.

But they're harder to build than you think. There are shades of gray and complications. You need related categories so people can jump from branch to branch; you can slice information so many different ways; who can agree where something fits, etc. I've tried to build a half-dozen, but I can't point to any major successes.

Is the ideal of taxonomy possible? Or is it just better to invest in a good search engine? Think about it, when you visit a site, do you ever browse a taxonomy, or do you just go right to search? If you're looking for something you've seen on this site, do you wade through the category list, or just hit the search engine?

When was the last time you actually browsed Yahoo! or DMOZ? I know they're there, but I haven't visited them in ages. Last time I did visit, what was the first thing I did? That's right — typed something into the search box.

Search is a lazy man's taxonomy. It's not as organized or structured as a taxonomy, but human beings — imperfect creatures than we are — tend to settle to what's easier. So, as an information architect, do you stand on principle, or do you cater to the lazy way your users are going to look for information?

This comes from my current infatuation with wikis. There is no categorizing of pages in wikis (even after my railin g against all their shortcomings a few months ago), there's just search and linking between pages. But the search is good, and it always seems to work. Same with the search on this site — when I'm looking for a previous post, it just always seems to work, and that search is nothing but a SQL "LIKE" query, the dumbest search of all.

So, are taxonomies an ideal that just don't survive the reality test?

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Who says theory is dead?

Who says theory is dead? 07/06/2004 08:37 AM
Gender-theory superstar Judith Butler takes on 9/11 and its aftermath in a new book -- written in clear English! But the task of postmodern theory, she argues, is more crucial now than ever.

WAP technology is not dead

WAP technology is not dead 09/10/2004 03:49 AM
Mad.co.uk Sep 10 2004 7:52AM GMT

Film ain't dead yet

Film ain't dead yet 01/22/2004 12:53 PM

A photo taken on New Year's Eve which we spent at a friend's house with several other couples and their children who didn't stop moving all evening. It was one of the very first shots taken with the Leica and a really old roll of C-41 process B&W film I happened to have around. I'm impressed that I captured her smirk in spite of the low light, her dervishness and my rusty manual camera reflexes. The picture would have been totally different had I taken it with a digital camera and I'm not entirely certain it would have been a presentable photo.

Recently, Kodak announced that it plans to discontinue a number of products including their line of APS film cameras which, if you believe a lot of the chicken little reports around the net, means the end of film photography as we have known it for the past century. Well, aside from the bias that people in the insular world of the internet tend to place on everything from Dean to the blog revolution, film is not doomed or otherwise obsolete even if all the kids who wouldn't part with their digital cameras say it is. The market Kodak is getting out of is one that has gone digital but there are plenty of film fanatics, film cameras and film processing labs out there to keep film in business for many more years.

I succumbed to the siren call of a digital camera about 3 years ago and, while I think digital has helped me to become a better photographer, I don't know that it has produced better photos than a film camera. I recently read Why digital cameras = better photographers which is a nicely done article on what makes digital attractive but, judging by a lot of the digital photos I've seen around the net in comparison to the film photos, I don't know that this is entirely true. Digital has produced a lot more photographers and photos so that the odds of there being more and better pictures is greater than before. I often wonder how many great photographers there would have been in the 1920s and 1930s had there been as many film cameras in the hands of people as there are now. A digital SLR gives you enough exposure feedback to get a feel for what the camera is doing which you can then take back to your film camera, but most digital cameras are completely automatic. People are taking more pictures and enjoying their cameras more so digital is a boon for getting more people interested in photography. However, this is not the death knell for film. Not yet anyway.

I'm getting back into film partly due to many of the inspiring photoblogs I've found at Photoblogs.org in which many of them have pictures taken on film that appeal to me far more than many of the digital photos I've seen or taken myself. Both formats have their strengths and weaknesses for me and, I suspect, they are similar for others.

Digital

• weaknesses
• DSLR is big, bulky, and heavy. Intimidates people at times.
• Trouble focusing in low-light.
• Batteries; aside from needing charging, they don't live long in cold conditions.
• It can crash at unexpected times without warning.
• Shutter lag.
• Lower light sensitivity.
• Archival concerns with digital format.
• Lots of equipment needed just to view and print pictures at home.
• An almost clinical perfection.
• strengths
• Instant gratification.
• Instant feedback.
• Easier to share photos with wired friends.

Film

• weaknesses
• Film can be expensive.
• Processing can be expensive.
• No instant gratification or feedback.
• strengths
• Small and light cameras.
• Fun.
• More creative.
• A Challenge.
• Film has the capacity to surprise in ways that digital never will.
• No batteries necessary.
• No shutter lag.
• Fewer buttons and gadgets.
• No CPU to crash at unexpected times.

The Elph is a fun little digital camera that I can take in my pocket anywhere and use for photographic post-it notes or fun candids to share. The 10D may gather some dust for a while since the Leica and the Lomo are a lot easier to carry around and they seem to capture more interesting images as perfection doesn't leave a lot of room for creative imperfection.

The Pope is dead

The Pope is dead 04/02/2005 04:03 PM
Its official, Pope John Paul II has died at age 84 in Vatican City. "The Holy Father died this evening at 21.37 in his private apartment"

I See Dead Disks

I See Dead Disks 06/23/2004 01:05 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Tue Jun 22, 07:34 pm GMT

Useful Dead Technologies

Useful Dead Technologies 02/01/2005 09:18 PM
As time progresses, we expect technology to progress as well. It doesn't always do so. Whether from corporate greed or corporate stupidity or just plain evil orneryness, some very good technologies have been allowed to die, usually being replaced by something vastly inferior and sometimes not being replaced at all. Listed here are some technologies that were very useful, but have become not more useful but less; or died off completely. These are good and useful technologies that have been superceded by less useful and usually very annoying technologies.

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