Archive for August, 2008

Intelligent Thumbnails

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

"Flickr takes the sun out of the sunset" -- The picture to the left from Flickr shows the full picture and its square thumbnail, in the inset. Thumbnails like these are generated automatically by Flickr and other photo management systems. They work by taking a portion from the ...

Children’s Digital Library

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Why an article about a children's book site? When I first came across the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL), it immediately struck me as being visually elegant, but could I justify putting it on an academic blog site? The more I thought about it, though, the more it seems ...