March 30, 2008

Crowdsourcing in action: results

I was writing about a pilot the Library of Congress was doing with Flickr. I measured also number of tags, notes and comments and repeated the process several times during last 2 months. Here are some numeric results: As expected, while tags, notes and comments still coming, in general the ...

January 27, 2008

Windows of Tel-Aviv

On Dizengoff street, Tel-Aviv.       © Elena Tkachenko ...

Crowdsourcing in Action: The Library of Congress Photos on Flickr

The Library of Congress has launched an interesting pilot project with Flickr, which can be characterized as a crowdsourcing experiment. They have uploaded 3115 copyright-free photos from two of the most popular collections and in return they hope the Flickr community will enhance the collections by labeling and commenting images ...

June 23, 2007

New camera new pictures new life

Seems like my wife has found the hobby of her life. She's all about photography now. Books, sites, forums. She's overgrown our little but powerful Canon S70 and got new shiny (not really shiny, but a black one) Canon 400D (aka XTi). S70 is finally mine again! Here are some her ...

February 17, 2007

Weekend photos

We spent half of today in the "Leumi" park of Ramat-Gan. The weather was just wonderful lovely. Here are some photos to let you feel Israel winter:     ...

February 1, 2007

Blooming times

It's blooming time in Israel. Really nice around. My favorite time. The photos are taken by Alenka, my wife. I think she's outgrown out little Canon S70 and needs some SLR camera. Anybody has any advices for buying first digital SLR thing? ...

November 2, 2006

Flying over Tel-Aviv

This is a great picture my wife took. It's Tel-Aviv beach view from a landing plane. Speaking of Tel-Aviv, we've got something unusual happenning here. There was a tornado near the beach and UFO over the city. Btw, I believe I've seen that tornado while driving to work via Tel-Aviv. ...

NASA found another landform face

 Remember this famous Mars face? So recently NASA found another one, here in the Earth, in Australia actually. They call it "Ghostly Face In South Australian Desert". I first though it's about upside-down face that reminds Dali paintings, but no. Can you see a ghost face here? That's really stupid ...

July 24, 2006

Summer colors

© Alenka Tkachenko ...

January 15, 2006

Autumn grasshoppers

My wife's been chasing grasshoppers this fall: ...

June 6, 2005

Future developer

Future developer? No doubts! ...

May 25, 2005

Hibiscus time

Hibiscus blooms again at our home. Actually outdoor it blooms non stop all year here in Israel, serving as a perfect undemanding but beautiful hedge. It's everywhere, every color and every form, there are even Hibiscus trees. But my home Hibiscus blooms two or three months in a row, then ...