Snipshot is a cool little online image editing application. It doesn't replace an application like GIMP or Photoshop, but for quick and easy resizing, cropping, rotation, or colour adjustments it does a credible job.

You can get an image into Snipshot in two ways.

1. You can browse your hard drive for the image.
2. You can enter the URL of an image.

Importing an image from a site like Flickr is a snap. Simply use your browser to figure out where the image lives on the Web and then cut and paste that URL into the Snipshot entry box.

I was asked if I know anything about online gambling--sites like Mac Poker--as they relate to Web 2.0. Right off the bat, it is important to know that I am pretty much anti-gambling. It isn't that I think that gambling should be banned, if people want to spend time in a casino that is up to them. I have, in fact, put a few dollars into penny and nickel slots in Reno and Las Vegas. Personally I find gambling pretty boring. But it can be extremely harmful when addictive behaviours begin breaking down a person's relationships. Finally, Online Gambling is illegal in the US.

10 years ago I was in graduate school. I had just finished the second performance event in my thesis work. The summer before, I had worked for the William King Regional Arts Center in Abingdon Virgina as production co-ordinator for the Appalachian Cultural Festival, Living Traditions. There, I met a man name Jim Loyd--a barber and old-time musician. He was a member of an Old-Time band called the Konnarock Critters.

I approached the Critters to play a series of concerts in the Virginia Tech Black Box Theatre. We scrounged a camera and hooked it into a Mac. We broadcast a video stream on the Internet and invited people from around the world to tap in as well.