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2013-05-26 00:22:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Like magic!

2013-05-25 20:57:49 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Aha! This one just popped up with the "With..." nonsense.
(a beautiful photo by an excellent photog, btw)

2013-05-25 20:00:14 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

What's the point of this defacing of the photos with who has been tagged in other, unrelated photos in the album?

2013-05-25 19:33:27 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

Sad looking cat is still looking sad. #caturday

2013-05-25 16:19:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Just repeating this for a larger audience: Photo sharing functionality that got broken in the new design has been fixed - and possibly even improved. See +Brian Matiash's post below.

We can once again upload new photos to existing albums, share straight from the album - and organize images within albums without the clunky PicasaWeb workaround. There are minor changes, but IMO, they're all improvements (the way we were doing it before was kind of a hack).

Try it out. Spread the word. Thank the G+ Photo team - that's some responsive development work.

2013-05-25 16:12:54 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

Testing the reportedly  "fixed" upload from albums problem.

2013-05-24 22:13:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 38 +1s)

Weed.

2013-05-24 16:48:32 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 33 +1s)

Ford

for #fourwheeledfriday by +Akhil Kalsh +Annelies Kroen +StPaul Herrmann +Eric Hege +Baba Schmitz +Kimberly Tweed & +Rob Hallifax

2013-05-24 14:39:06 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 57 +1s)

Curvaceous and quick.

Project 52 B&W
Week 21: Curves
#P52BW13 | +Project 52 B&W 
Curated by +Tisha Craw +Susan Porter & +Lauri Novak  

2013-05-23 15:17:40 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

Red bike and stuff.

2013-05-23 13:26:55 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 32 +1s)

Shown by appointment.

2013-05-22 21:19:29 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I read last year that the creator of the format pronounces it like jiffy. 
Doesn't matter. It's been a hard g like in giga in m y head for at least the last 15 years.

2013-05-22 20:59:29 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

Who goes there?

2013-05-22 17:55:20 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 29 +1s)

Grasshopper lunch.

2013-05-22 15:30:28 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

#wordlessonwednesday 

2013-05-22 14:22:38 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 27 +1s)

Bugzex.

2013-05-20 22:56:50 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)

I see she's brought some work home again.

2013-05-18 20:56:49 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 29 +1s)

Vetish.

2013-05-18 19:15:05 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

That blue bottle is not a fire extinguisher.

2013-05-18 18:06:48 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 49 +1s)

Red Ford.
Yellow Chevy.  

2013-05-18 17:14:07 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 26 +1s)

I prefer the B&W version, but that may just be me.

2013-05-18 16:41:15 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

Snakes!
It's a good Saturday when you've got no particular place to be and suddenly...there's a car show!

2013-05-18 01:19:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Watching Da Vinci's Demons and Vlad the Impaler has just made his appearance. 

2013-05-18 00:21:22 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

So, what's the deal? There seem to have been a bunch of g+ sponsored photogs at the I/O conference who ignored the mess since the "upgrade".

2013-05-17 23:44:53 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 32 +1s)

Mmmm, pizza good...
Is there a #wearegrandparents  ?

2013-05-17 13:53:30 (21 comments, 0 reshares, 79 +1s)

Framed darkly.

Project 52 B&W
Week 20: Framed 
#P52BW13 | +Project 52 B&W  
Curated by +Tisha Craw +Susan Porter * +Lauri Novak  

2013-05-16 19:44:07 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 39 +1s)

Don't back up.

2013-05-16 13:09:42 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

I lost the album containing this pic along with 158 others  yesterday. And, for no apparent reason. Several people have lost albums. The photos appear in "Trash". They can all be restored, but all comments, pluses, etc. are lost.
I hope this admitted g+ bug is fixed.

2013-05-15 22:31:01 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

CAREFUL PEOPLE I just lost an entire album with several hundred pics. 
I was in the album and clicked on "what's new" at the top. I clicked the <- back arrow in chrome.
"You don't have premission to view this album" appeared in red.
I clicked the +YOURNAME at the top of the g+ page and went to albums.
The one I had been in is disappeared. 

2013-05-15 22:00:32 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

just testing new g+ crap features

2013-05-15 21:40:46 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

So, to share a pic it has to be done from an album? No longer part of the upload process? This isn't progress.

2013-05-15 21:14:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Whoomp! There it is! (The new g+, that is)
Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is) (Original) [HQ]

2013-05-15 21:29:37 (21 comments, 1 reshares, 55 +1s)

Flashing for #onthefencewednesday by +Natosha Davis 

2013-05-15 17:57:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

I wasn't ready, but it was an interesting bit of behavior.
The two mocking birds were flying around and squabbling and making a racket. The blue jay flew out the trees and broke it up once. Then they went at it again and the blue jay pounded them again.

2013-05-15 17:38:02 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Michigan's answer to Bass Ale?
Never tried it, doubt if I will.

2013-05-15 13:10:09 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 39 +1s)

It's a #wetwednesday somewhere.

2013-05-14 14:07:49 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

Willys body on an F150 frame.
Next door this morning. 

2013-05-13 21:10:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

A day of unrest as the G+ stream was broken, can now be put to bed
 Lead architect for G+ +Yonatan Zunger just confirmed that two bugs caused the stream to stagnate for many users.

The stream for All Circles as well as specific circles didn´t show new posts and many users complained about a lack of interaction on their posts.  

The suspicion was that Google had introduced a new relevance algorithm overruling the users circle settings. A speculation which was fed by a change in the actual circle slider settings. Instead of a slider control over the amount of posts you would see per circle is now done with the choices normal, more, fewer and a check mark ´subscribe´

+Yonatan Zunger told me these settings are just the verbose equivalents of the old slider settings.He also confirmed there were two distinct bugs which caused streams to don´t show newer posts,but as w... more »

2013-05-13 20:39:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Relevance Algorithm

Google+ is working on a relevance algorithm to show us only the relevant posts in our stream.

<Update>
+Yonatan Zunger has confirmed in the comments (see below) that this was a bug and it is fixed now. Nevertheless it was fun to create the chart below ;)
</Update>

You can find here (https://plus.google.com/101151078020673275690/posts/BVNBWQu925c) some more information about this experiment.

We have analyzed the last 100 posts of the first 100 persons in Euro Maestro's Who's Who List and checked the average number of interactions these posts got (divided by the number of followers to get a normalized view on the numbers).
From what we can see there is no negative trend, though many of us are missing a lot of posts in their stream in the moment.

We will update these numbers in... more »

2013-05-13 21:49:23 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 29 +1s)

Prickly light.
For #macromonday  by +Jennifer Eden +Kerry Murphy +Kelli Seeger Kim & +Jake Easley 

2013-05-12 17:09:49 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 28 +1s)

Happy Mothers' Day!
Here are my Mother, puppy and me from 1957. We were living in Soest, Holland.

2013-05-10 20:12:12 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 29 +1s)

Today. Taken with a 1979 Vivitar 135mm m42 mount @ f2.8 on a Nikon D600.
I like what it did with the background.

2013-05-10 19:49:03 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 39 +1s)

Brain fuel... 
This was shot with a 28mm @f2.8 Sears brand (Vivitar?) m42 lens I bought at a pawn shop ~1979. Sunlight/Nikon D600/100 ISO b&w conversion using ViewNX2.

Project 52 B&W
Week 19: Food
#P52BW13 | +Project 52 B&W 
Curated by +Tisha Craw +Susan Porter & +Lauri Novak 

2013-05-09 14:59:30 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 33 +1s)

Trapped.
#leafonThursday

2013-05-08 15:55:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 49 +1s)

Happy birthday +Gene Bowker   #HappyBdayGene 

2013-05-08 15:30:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The live hearing on Benghazi is about to start. Here's the PBS link:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/05/benghazi-hearing.html

2013-05-08 13:16:44 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 43 +1s)

Aw, she gave me flowers.

2013-05-07 20:36:22 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Tipped over trash can near one of the bars. 
Hey Google what's UV Cake ?
Huh? Really? White cake flavored vodka?
Why?

2013-05-06 22:02:48 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 33 +1s)

Laundry day.

2013-05-07 01:40:15 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 31 +1s)

15 psi (103 kPa)