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Posted on April 29, 2008
Using Photos and Images In Blog Posts
BY JAMES CLARK
Using pictures to capture the essence of your blog post is an incredible and powerful way to communicate your messages. The interest in your post and future posts can be significantly enhanced by the use of photos. Personally I always find myself reading blogs incorporating the use of images and photos.
Following are recommendations for the best sites for Creative Commons blog photos and another just awesome image site. The link provided will take you to Wikipedia to further explain the different levels of Creative Commons licenses. The key piece to remember is to always provide a photo credit and link below.
- Flickr. By far the largest resource for photos. Note: make sure you use the advanced search options and select the "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content "
- EveryStockPhoto. This is a license-specific photo search engine.
- Pixdaus. By far I think the most interesting of the three, but not reviewed for licensed content. I've linked to Pixdaus and to the user profile that has uploaded the photo. When using Pixdaus be sure to avoid photos with copyrights on them.
"Dubai" posted at Pixdaus by Jorge
"They Are Here" posted at Pixdaus by Luke
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Posted on September 5, 2006
Findability Tip: Geotag Flickr Photos
BY JASON CORMIER
On Aug. 28, the popular free photo-sharing site Flickr debuted a fun and potentially useful new feature: drag-and-drop geotagging. This is the easiest way I've found so far to show people exactly where each photo you post was taken, and to make it easy for people to find your photos when searching by location.
For example, this past weekend I hiked up to the summit of Bear Peak, on the western edge of Boulder, CO. I snapped a couple of photos of myself up there, and later that evening posted them to Flickr.
HOW TO DO IT: Flickr has posted a couple of short screencast tutorials on this topic: how to geotag your own photos and how to use all the controls for searching and exploring geotagged photos.
WHY TO DO IT: If geography is relevant to your projects or business, and if you're creating relevant photos, your photos should be as findable as possible. Even though this Flickr feature is brand new, it's becoming very popular. Flickr users are avidly searching for photos taken near other pictures they like -- especially for recreation and vacation interests.
Also, it appears that Flickr's geotagged data is getting indexed by Google, which already indexes images and captions from Flickr. A popular photo, or a photo taken near a popular photo, could increase your site traffic and pagerank.
And of course, Flickr's approach to geotagging is dead easy. It only takes a few seconds per photo. Give it a try.
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