The Point Reyes Light newspaper has used your public photo of Obama
in our endorsements. Please see it online at www.ptreyeslight.com
I am very open with my work. I am flattered when it is used, referred to or commented on. I love the attention. But I’m pretty clear about using my work for profit without asking.
Does anyone have an idea about what I can do about this?
I’ve just had a quick look at the table of contents and the chapter about copyright and intellectual property and I’m convinced that this book in its non-free paper version would be interesting enough to hold my attention.
Could knol allow knowledgeable content writers to promote their work, potentially make money from the article and find other people who are knowledgeable in their field? If it can, every professor and teacher in the world should consider writing a knol.
This video touches on some ideas I’ve been mulling about lately. Specifically, it talks about consumers trusting their peers and seeking out consolidated, trustworthy content.
If people trust their peers and want consolidated content then the new delivery mechanisms need to supply that content. If I trust the shared items from my friends’ Google Reader feeds more than I trust a magazine or newspaper then I need to find a way to locate the consolidated shared feeds that are relevant to my interests.
Where is that place where the consolidated, trustworthy content exists and is easy to search by interest areas? Is there a better way of finding shared feeds other than posting your own Best of Blog (BoB) and hoping other people do the same?
Our friends at Google just made it a little easier to use gmail on a mobile device. Thank you Google! IMAP should be rolled out to everyone within a few days.
Michael Wesch is at it again with another video. This one addresses the way the Internet allows us to organize information. This is relevant to anyone who puts information online.
This is changing the way we think about content. It will change the way I work, build web sites, provide information and find it.
Flickr and YouTube are overwhelming. Exploring the content in a meandering kind of way frustrates me because I come across more content that I don’t enjoy than content that I love.
The brilliance of this massive pile of content is the way in which we are allowed to spy on it. Flickr lets users compile lists of favorites as they are browsing. YouTube gives us channels. del.icio.us is the beast that lets us browse anywhere on the internet and share our favorites. Add our favorite feed reader to that equation and we have a tidy way to keep up on the content we most enjoy. There are many ways to keep up on the content you enjoy. You can subscribe to a blog written by someone you admire, you can find someone who reads articles you like and follow what they are reading or you can stumble across a complete stranger who works in your field and follow their bookmarks.
These tools provide a way for professional, elite and everyday photographers to feed their creativity, find community and entertain the rest of us. They have opened up the art, the hobby, the practice and the culture of photography to the masses. I hear criticisms of flickr from professional photographers. They think the existence of flickr cheapens their work. The reality is, the tool is available to everyone and if used correctly, it will increase the value of the professionals’ work. How has flickr improved your photography?
I love flickr. It is a tool that has allowed anyone with the ability to make a digital image to upload it, share it and leave it there for others who might have similar interests to find it, form groups and learn from each others’ work. It is brilliant.
Until recently photography has been an art form of the elite. It was a sustainable business for generations. I have friends who made a very good living at the beginning of their careers because they could sell enough commercial work to pay the rent and fund their personal projects. Those days, it seems, are over for the majority of photographers.
With the onset of istockphoto.com, the idea of paying thousands of dollars in stock photography seems a bit ridiculous. As a result, my friends can’t make a living doing commercial work anymore. I feel for them, it is a shift in how they make a living.
However, the unabashed shaming of sites like istockphoto.com and flickr.com in the name of the cheapening of photography is a defensive reaction of those photographic elite who feel the market slipping away beneath them.
