Viewing your Flickr Images with Flipboard...

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I have been enjoying Flipboard (http://flipboard.com), the iPad social magazine application. I like how it grabs content from my social networks and presents it in an attractive magazine style. For example a friend might point to an image or an article using Twitter. Flipboard will take that link and parse it and present it graphically on a page along with other content from that stream.

I was thinking it would be great it if could grab my Flickr stream (my photos, and also photos from my contacts) and present it to me in this manner. Flipboard does not currently do this, though I would expect at some point it will. This got me thinking about how to do this and I came up a solution by creating another Twitter account and then using Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com) to have it automatically create a Twitter stream from the RSS file of my own Flickr account, and of the stream of my Flickr contacts. Once set up, Twitterfeed will automatically post items from these feeds to the Twitter account I created. I created a Twitter account for My photographs stream. The account grabs my photos, and photos from my Flickr contacts, and automatically adds them to this account. I then subscribed to this Twitter feed with Flipboard and now the images flow into Flipboard. I have a couple of screen shots below.

Tim Lauer
Principal
Lewis Elementary School
Portland, OR
lewiselementary.org

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Using Flipboard to view your Flickr Stream...

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I have been enjoying Flipboard (http://flipboard.com), the iPad social magazine application. I like how it grabs content from my social networks and presents it in an attractive magazine style. For example a friend might point to an image or an article using Twitter. Flipboard will take that link and parse it and present it graphically along with other longs and posts from my social streams.

I was thinking it would be great it if could grab my Flickr stream (my photos, and also photos from my contacts) and present it to me in this manner. Flipboard does not currently do this, though i would expect at some point it will. This got me thinking about how to do this and I came up the solution of creating another Twitter account and then using Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com) to have it automatically create a Twitter stream from the RSS file of my own Flickr account, and of the stream of my Flickr contacts. With Twitterfeed you can basically autopost items from any RSS feed to a Twitter account.

I created a Twitter account for Photographs. The account grabs my photos, and photos from my Flickr contacts, and creates a stream. I then subscribed to this Twitter feed with Flipboard and now the images flow into Flipboard. I have a couple of scene shots below.

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No Easy Answers in the Copyright Debate - NYTimes.com An interesting discussion on copyright, this time around sheet music...

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Fortunately, over the last ten or fifteen years, amateur pianists have been scanning the contents of their grandmother's piano benches, and... voilà. A million monkeys typing don't get you Shakespeare, but a million monkeys scanning -- that makes a dent.

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An interesting discussion on copyright, this time around sheet music...

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More Summer

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Today was a pretty hot day. Well a pretty hot day for Portland. It is currently 93° F, which passes for pretty hot in Portland. Now 93° F in Portland is different than 93° F in say, Hammond, IN, where I grew up outside Chicago. There you would also have the associated 80% humidity to go along with the heat. As they say in California, ours is a dry heat. Nonetheless, as I prepare to leave my school today the temperature in my office is 87. My office is south facing and even in January on a sunny day, can get pretty warm. The folks who suggest we move to a year round school calendar will need to plant some more shade trees outside my office before I sign up for that...