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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. The photos shown below are all from Pixdaus. 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
Posted on April 28, 2008
Are Personal Sites a Thing of the Past?
BY JENNIFER EUBANKS
Yesterday I came across an entry on Jeffrey Zeldman's blog talking about a seeming disappearance of personal sites. In one example, he talked about a site that, while it contains links to what might in the past have been links to other internal pages, all of these links took the user to external sites such as linkedin, flickr, twitter, etc.
While there can be advantages to outsourcing your online persona in this manner, there can be possible disadvantages as well. As someone creating an online presence, you should be sure that you understand what you want to use your personal site for (if indeed you even choose to have one amid the sea of social networking sites). Social sites often let you create a profile where you provide links to personal sites--these can help drive traffic to your personal page. Likewise, providing links to these social sites on your personal page can drive traffic to these external representations of you.
Posted on December 13, 2007
Everyone Loves Stats - Flickr Introduces Photo Statistics
BY JENNIFER EUBANKS
Today on the Flickr blog, it was announced that stats are now available for your photos. As of right now, they are only available to Pro users, and you have to go to a page to specifically activate the stats.
Posted on December 7, 2007
The Rise of Web Surfing
BY JENNIFER EUBANKS
Surfing (the kind with ocean and a surfboard), has seen a rise in popularity over the past few years. Part of this popularity can probably be attributed to the ease with which the internet provides surfers with valuable information. What once required more guesswork or actually going out to physically inspect the ocean, can now be done from the comforts of home.
Surfing blog sites will often talk about what they have encountered each and every day, and in what spots. Bigger, more commercialized sites, such as Surfline, provide links to webcams, reports, forecasts, and other news that can help a surfer decide when and where to catch their next wave.
Being the sole member of my company who lives in a beach town, I was inundated last weekend by reports of an "epic swell" that was expected to hit the coast of California mid-week. Talk of the huge impending surf popped up everywhere, from localized blogs, to local newspapers, from local news to widely circulated newspapers. Everyone had something to say about the topic, which is interesting considering that I don't believe I've ever heard traditional media focus so much attention on high surf advisories in past years. Certainly one would want to be aware of when it is dangerous to be walking along the beach, but in the winter, the majority of people who would dare venture out in the cold are those who go to partake in the sport of surfing. More likely is that in this increasingly digital age, the media has noticed how much is out there in terms of online resources for surfers, and want to cash in a bit.
Like many other niche groups on the internet, surfers have a lot of resources from which they have formed a community--there are forums, swell charts, video, podcasts, reports updated several times daily, blogs to share experiences, and of course Flickr and Youtube to post all those photos and videos you took to share that perfect barrel with friends and other like-minded individuals. When the swell peaked on Tuesday and Wednesday, photos were almost instantly available--something that validates the hype of the day, while getting to share and compare experiences from all over the coast.
The ease with which one can find information on surfing can easily correlate to the increased number of people out when the surf is at its best. Gone are the days when one had to get up before dawn and see what was in store and then use word of mouth. Now with live webcams, the conversations revolve not around "is it good today" but "what time should I meet you there?"
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.
