Incorporating the geo-blogging craze into flickr we now have flickr maps.
Check mine out (although you’ll have to be signed in and a contact of mine) flickr.com/photos/jufemaiz/map/
Edit: After playing around around a little it has become strikingly obvious that Yahoo! cares far less about Australia than Google does (although Google is probably a little biased due to part of their maps programming team being based in Sydney). Thus the support for maps - both satellite and street directory style - is shocking for those of us down under. I’ve found the best way to use them is a combination of Google Maps, whereis.com.au and flickr.
Last Friday I was invited by my mate stu to go and shoot photos for the University of Sydney’s Engineering Review V for Vic Bitter.
The Photo Set.
In the finest tradition of playing big on a relatively small budget, the Australian National Youth Radio Station Triple J (a part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not to be confused with the American ABC) is set to complement the likes of MySpace music, Pure Volume and other similar sites aimed at breaking new ground for independent artists with the official launch of a dedicated site to their Triple J Unearthed program.
Triple J Unearthed’s original aims were to discover fresh new talent in rural and regional Australia. The original program went around the nation visiting towns where a transmitter was located. Soon this expanded into the major cities too. This first round of unearthed produced bands or groups such as:
- Grinspoon
- Endorphin
- Missy Higgins
- Killing Heidi
Soon the program was expanded to an annual state by state unearthing of talent. This year sees Triple J embracing technology and using a national approach via their new site: triplejunearthed.com. Based around user uploads and allowing free access to songs by users around the world, triple j is hoping to unearth more new talent from this glorious land of ours.
It’s not every day that one gets to put those two words together, but it’s close to what happened yesterday in Sydney, courtesy of a bucketload of hail that was dumped on the city turning it into a winter wonderland.
Photo courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Other flickr contributors of note:
They also had this supurb shot of lightning striking a boat.
