Shorty Awards
A few days ago, I ran across sometihng called the Shorty Awards on Twitter. The seem to be a light-hearted way to leverage the TwitterVerse for a little fun.
The Shorty Awards honor the world’s top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you’d like until midnight December 31st. How it works…
The Shorty Awards are very Web 2.0. The catergories are user-generated and evolving. The nomination process and voting is all done via Twitter. “To nominate someone, tweet @shortyawards with a @nominee and a #category, and why you think they should win.”
I have started the #accessibility and #blindphotography categories. If these categories receive enough traction, they will sruvive. So, please nnm8 me 4 #ally awrd! Or nominate someone at least.
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Your nomination meant a lot to me, Tim, and your mission to put #accessibility and #blindphotography on the Twitter map is right on. I wonder what other Twitterers think #accessibility is? Wifi at Starbuck’s? We need the likes of @badbanana and @timoreilly to take up our cause.
I’d like to use your photo “Istanbul Birds in Flight” to introduce your blog on mine. May I? Is this a good version?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/430961285/in/set-72157594401002548/
Mark, your nomination is well deserved. Curiosity & The Blind Photographer really got me thinking. Everyone should read it!
I don’t know too many others who are both working on accessibility and on Twitter. I did some searching and nominating last night. Hopefully it will catch on. It seems an easy and fun way to reach a larger audience. Speaking of larger audiences, I have no idea how to get @badbanana and @timoreilly to take up our cause. Food for thought though.
Thanks for using that photo. It is one of my best and one of my favorites. That version is the best one!
hello you two. thanks for the #blindphotography nomination. i saw that. it meant much to me
@lodroridgzin Very much deserved.
Funny how we leap-frog technologies sometimes. When MP3 technology came out, I didn’t have a computer that could manage it. No working computer at home, and an old box at university waiting on a list to be upgraded. After I realized what I’d missed, I determined to let home technology be the leading edge rather than waiting on the university. So I’ve never used Audible.com, although I use MP3 all the time now. When you download a book from Audible, is the MP3 yours to re-package and edit, or does it have DRM?
As for Daisy, the Library of Congress plans to convert all its Talking Books to Daisy beginning in 2010. That may be delayed given current financial situation. I’ll probably wait till then to really use it, although I invested in a player. You’re right, they’re expensive, and there’s a learning curve to get the most out of the DAISY indexing.
I want to try making my own talking books using scanned text files and software called TextAloud that converts text files to MP3. The technology is there, but not the time right now.