Just a Gwai Lo fun within prescribed limits [?]

Here are the originals of the Moo MiniCards I got on Friday and Saturday from the Northern Voice conference.

Photos by John Biehler.

Photo by Peter Andersen.

Photo by JMV.

Photo by (and of) Ariane.

I got others over the weekend. I'll update this when I come across the original photos on Flickr.

A quick note to publicize my Google Reader Shared Items feed URL: http://feeds.justagwailo.com/justagwailo/shared. It uses FeedBurner and its MyBrand service which lets you use your a subdomain of your own domain for feeds. (It's a little weird that you have to email to sign up, since it should be an automatic process where you click a button then set your DNS to point to feeds.feedburner.com, but at least, as which Rogers Cadenhead correctly argues, it prevents lock-in to the FeedBurner service.) Right now it's only my shared items directly from Google Reader. I'd like in the future for it to include my 'dugg' items at Digg, my Flickr and YouTube 'favorite' photos and videos, respectively, and if there was a feed for it, my MetaFilter and Ask MetaFilter 'favorite' posts and comments. Just Google Reader items for now, though, as it's the easiest to setup while letting me add to it later.

Please let me know if you have feedback on the shared items. Too much of one thing and not enough of another? I subscribe to about a hundred feeds, which isn't close to those whose shared items I subscribe to. If I have comments about an article, I'll either socially bookmark it or blog about it, but at least this is a low-threshold way to say "this is interesting for some reason" without giving that reason.

Every couple of months, I check to see who's using my photos to adorn their posts. In that time period since I last checked, David Crow, co*create and the Vancouver Skateboarding Coalition republished, respectively, "Downtown Toronto as Seen From 215 Spadina" [Flickr mirror], "Sustainability Without Compromise" [Flickr mirror], and "Northside of the Leeside Tunnel" [Flickr mirror]. It's fun to see photos I randomly took, either on my way to or from something (in the case of the "Leeside Tunnel" and "Sustainability" photos show up somewhere, republished, I assume, in part because they are licensed in such a way that people don't have to ask for permission. Thanks to those linked above who used the photo in accordance with the Attribution license I set it to, but mostly for thinking the photo was good enough to include at all.