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Photoblog Revolution
An anonymous reader writes "How about doing a story based on photoblogs? They're quickly becoming the next cool thing in the blog world. A photo a day - a visual diary. It would just be interesting, especially since you're interested in blogs and art. The links included are some of the more popular ones from database photoblogs.org."
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The *next* cool thing? Hiptop users have been photo/moblogging for years and there are several sites available just for hiptop users to blog to. I just recently bought a hiptop and even more recently received a camera for it. While I'm not necessarily into "blogging" I do enjoy posting random pictures of where I am for people to see. I sometimes post to one of the hiptop moblogging sites but I generally take pictures for my personal site.
;-)
My "mobile gallery" is powered by Gallery and a simple bash script to import my photos from email attachments. I normally don't put captions on the pictures but sometimes I do. They are just usually there for me to remember something specific about the day or place I was. It's nice not to have to be carrying around my full sized digital camera and waiting till I get home to upload photos for friends/family/slashdotters to see.
My mobile pics are here and the entire photo album changelog is here if you're interested. If your cell phone (or hiptop) has a camera and you'd like to use procmail and Gallery to host your own mobile pics the quick and dirty script to do so is here. There are some requirements (munpack and galleryadd which are both linked to in the document listed above and obviously procmail).
YMMV on what you need to install and whether you like how my photos are sorted
I love how every pet project becomes the "next cool thing"...?
With each breath in, a flower somewhere opens; with each breath out, a flower withers away. In between lies beauty.
It all begins with this? And now everybody wants his/her life found by others?
These photoblogs with no text are especially good because they don't impose a subjective opinion on a subject, and readers are free to interprete those photos.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Sounds like a great way for us to blow up even more servers!
Fax Baba!
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Does anyone else see this coming to:
SHOW US YOUR BOOBS!
Photoblogging, cell-phone blogging, "moblogging." Any word you call it, it's already been covered on Slashdot:
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http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/08/2034213.sht
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/23/2047233.sht
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/30/1619209.sht
www.andrewhodel.com is my site, I guess it has been a "photoblog" for the last 2 years, ha
The subject of photoblogging reminds me quite a bit of "lomography," which has apparently taken off among certain circles. It gets its name from a Russian camera called the Lomo which is a consumer "point and shoot" camera with some unusual properties as far as quality goes.
Anything and Everything is a good place to start checking out lomography.
"Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon!" -- Montgomery Scott, ST:III
Well, does this site count as a photoblog?
I didn't set it up with that label in mind but I suppose that's what it is. It's only natural to want to put photos to words or words to photos, the two mediums coexist quite nicely.
Since storage and dare I say it bandwidth are cheap these days there's no reason (well apart from all the obvious ones, laziness :) etc... ) why not to have hundereds of photos a day!
The story is that it's no big surprise that graphics-intensive Web sites can't survive a good Slashdotting.
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Ok, why does everyone always have to do the same thing? Why are these "the next big thing?" The next big what?
Seriously though, it is like everyone is just waiting for someone else to tell them what to do in life. Hey buddy you should start a "photoblog," because everyone else is.
By the way, the term "blog" is so irritating. Is anyone else annoyed when they hear this term used? When I hear it I cringe just like when I used to hear "the information super-highway."
Must be, since I've never heard of it....
of the picture-a-day kind a nice way to get you to go out and shoot a ton of pictures. I don't think there is a better way of actually learning to take half-decent pictures. I've run mine for just over two months now and it is not as easy as it seems.
My photolog
On another note, someone might want to take a look at this: pi
don't be fooled by the domain itself!
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-- myself
For there to be a "next" cool thing, there would have to have been a "first" cool thing.
Since there has never been anything "cool" about your online diaries, I'm confused as to what this means.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I should have known better than to try to visit a site referenced in a /. story the day it comes out...
Have you hugged your penguin today?
http://moblog.umtstrial.co.uk/
Check out my holiday snaps. (Username Calum, obviously.)
Get your own free personal location tracker
I know that most of us would rather host our own websites, but for the majority out there, they use Blogger or some other free site. The only problem I've found with them is that you can't upload pictures, which is where the whole photo-blog idea fits in. I say, use TinyPic just like tinyURL.com for whenever I need to add a photo to a blog entry. (like this one from a camera phone). Basically, you can upload a normal file-sized picture, and they'll host it.
If you blog it...
Just further confirmation that most people aren't that good looking
I fotoblog becuz I cant spel or tipe.
http://www.techyrants.com
www.adamraby.com/b/ started as a moblog, but I didn't like textamerica or my camera phone, so returned my phone got a sony cybershot and wrote my own photoblog like it?
I don't know. I'm not really into gay porn.
/blogs are for fags
For users of (Google's) Picasa "Hello" IM program, you can add "Bloggerbot" to your friends list, and then automatically send it photos from Picasa (a very nice photo management program) to be automatically published to your blog.
http://supermodelpersonals.blogspot.com
For example
aka not cool
I love photography, and looking at photographs. But any urge I have to do so is usually far better served by looking at random images on PBase rather than following any particular photo blog.
Really, who travels anywhere interesting every day? The photos end up being kind of random but also kind of boring. I think probably what would be a lot more interesting would be a meta-photo-blog, that sorted through all the drek from photo blogs around the world and posted some of the most intersting stuff each day. I imagine there are already a few hundred such sites since there are no new ideas on the internet, I'd love to know of them if so. A google search didn't really get anything.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Is that somebody, notice anonymously, has managed to successfully slashbomb sites I'm going to bet were on his/her shitlist.
Frankly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. You need to get a life if you have enough time to surf around reading peoples ramblings. Now with photos? Whoa! Somebody hold me back...
The availability of bandwidth and digital cameras realy will take the Internet medium downstream. I mean, how many people actually like to spend their weekends reading? Versus watching movies?
I started working on a photo site where you can merge photos and put them on mugs and stuff at YouArt and the number one thing that has impressed me is people immediately say "cool". People just like pictures. In the past people say "like what does that site do" but with pictures it is obvious.
I guess everyone will have real imagery and sound in a few years. A whole New Internet.
Expect Freedom.
I ever wanted say that: I for one welcome our new server OVERLOADs!
whatmycatshavekilled.blogspot.com
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that says "nobody reads your blog".
Truth is, I don't need to read about you and your life or opinions. I don't care if you like Buffy the vampire slayer. I don't care if you like linux.
It's kind of like those photocopied newsletters some families send you in their christmas cards with a summary of what everyone is doing. I don't care if little jimmy is taking tennis lessons.
Therefore: unless your photo blog has naked chicks in it, it will be just as pointless.
The real good news is, Roland Piquepaille will be forced to follow the new blogging trend to stay cool, and therefore whoever hosts his lame blog now (Primidi, it seems) will make him pay dearly for the bandwidth at the first sign of self-redirected Slashdot traffic, therefore negating the advertising revenues he derives from the activity.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Blogging isn't new. Photoblogging isn't new either. What is new is a site called Multiply which is a convergence of digital content publishing and management, and the "six degrees of separation" of sites like Orkut and Friendster (heck you can even import your Orkut contacts if you want).
;-)
How many of you maintain a blog that nobody reads? As someone most cleverly put it, most blogs are "the sound of one hand clapping." But because of the integration of social networking, the people that will read your blog on Multiply are your roommate's sister, your friend's cousin, and your buddy's brother -- people like that. Of course there are tools to control access as well, so if you want to publish something just for your contacts (or even a subset of that), you can do that too.
Similarly if you are a photographer, the photo printing sites like Shutterfly and oFoto almost go out of their way to make it painful to share your photos on-line (you see, they only make money if you print them, and if you share them on-line you might not need to). With Multiply on the other hand sharing your photos is as simple as a few clicks. When I uploaded pics of my halloween party, for instance, over 200 of my friends (and their friends) read it within a day of me posting. Now *that* is cool.
Finally, if you're a lurker, there's no better place... you get to see what's going on with everyone in your network, and get to see things you never would have otherwise. One of my friends has a cousin stationed in Iraq who posted pictures of Sadam's palace -- unbelievable! And I never would have seen them if it wasn't for the connection on Multiply. That's only one example out of dozens and dozens.
Try it out... you won't be disappointed.
MASSIVE DISCLAIMER: I'm one of the founders of Multiply. That doesn't mean I think it's any less cool though!
Check out my Multiply site for an example of what you can do.
makes me feel good that I'm not you.
thanks
But I have a stumble blog account I use to photoblog, I photoblog art/images from around the web that I like. I'd hate to bore someone with incidental images of my own (I'm no photographer!) but photo/image blogging can be fun (to do) and fun to view if you find someone with taste you find interesting.
Mine in particular includes particularly racy pictures, so if you see my link and are at work/offended/etc don't click it.
Quack, quack.
French neird: http://www.folalier.com/. There is a life outside slashdot (although ...)
What was that about? Did you write that program or what? I can't see the point in that being a response to my question as it says nothing about aggregations of photoblogs.
I apologize if you meant better, but honesty I don't know what you are trying to communicate.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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Slashdot!
There is only one way to photoblog these days, and that way is flickr.com.
Flickr is sooo far ahead of any other photo/mobile blog out there, that it is just not funny.
Try it, you'll love it.
gadgetophile.com
is what makes photo blogging kool...
[radio uruguay]
I installed a small photoblog on my friend's site: RockWell. It has somewhat become an obituary for all the recent deaths in his home country (NL). First Andre Hazes and then today's brutal murder of Theo van Gogh.
primidi is not the hoster, but just the new address of his blog.
Those interested in photoblogging might be interested in photo.net's "no words" forums: http://www.photo.net/bboard/forum?topic_id=1801
Photo blogging is already Boring...
Check out my Video Blog - WAY more interesting...
http://www.m3blog.com
Now, if only we could get a really good streaming, universal video codec!!! (dirac, perhaps?)
Something that's bugged me about the blogging scene is how self-important certain parts of it seem to be. Some of the more prominent blogs/newslogs seem to be story after story, self-congratulatory pieces about how exciting and important blogging is ("Wow, look! We're important!") and for some reason that attitudes drives me nuts. Because... well... yeah, in some respect blogging and "the voice of the people" and so on is important, although not nearly so much as they'd like to have us believe sometimes. Especially when blogs cease being about something, and instead being about... blogging. Ah well.
Hi... I'm Larry... the shivering chipmunk... brrrrr!... I'm cold... I need a sweater...
What you describe is rather more like that meta-blog I was talking about, I'll have to check that out (at home - thanks for the warning).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
promote our photoblog/moblog application at once...
/. adverts when you can just advertise in the comment section of the article, if this really is an article...
Why pay for
The site is nothing to do with me.
The interesting part is that individual photobloggers tag their pictures with keywords.
You can then search on keywords to get a bunch of related pictures from different blogs. I admit there's no editorial control involved, but the results can be quite interesting. For example, Election2004.
Or try your own search.
its called an f'n slide show.
The problem with photoblogs is the same problem with regular blogs - lack of focus. Precisely because it is so easy to web-publish, there are far too many people posting without giving any thought to producing a thematically-consistent portfolio of work. This shouldn't limit your creativity:
- A photo-a-day blog can be very compelling (I'm thinking of the album made by Harvey Keitel's character in Smoke).
- Build your blog around something offbeat like things your dog brought home or food that looks like Elvis - whatever turns your crank
- Take pictures of doors, sidewalks, homeless people or whatever it takes to produce a thematic arc
- Go out and blitz a city with 500 pics in one day, and show us your best 10 (or better yet, 5)
Your equipment doesn't even matter - use your crappy phone cam, but use it well. The ability to edit your body of work, not just your pictures, is what will separate your portfolio from the rest of the drek that's out there.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
MirrorDot has mirrors of all of the linked pages, images, etc...
~Jay
Actually these sites still seem to be responding well. I guess not everyone is on a shared server.
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An intelligent blog is the Synchronicity of Indeterminacy. The blogger combines a randomly selected image with an original one-minute short story inspired by the photo. Amusing and surreal juxtapositions result.
Piquepaille has an exceptionally lame site. I don't think he gets repeat traffic, so he depends on sites such as Slashdot to generate hits/page views for him. I don't buy the Slashdot editors line about Piquepaille providing interesting stories. Everything he puts out is already everywhere else and can be suggested without being an advertising shill. Oh well, off my soapbox.
The story is that these sites do not have a lameness filter. These sites seem designed to keep idle minds idle.
There's also community photoblogs on sites such as LiveJournal such as the Photography Community and the Photojournal Community.
The next cool thing in the blog world is pretty damn far from the next cool thing in general.
Blogs suck, and I can say that with authority since I have one. At least I don't delude myself into thinking anyone wants to look at it. Hell, I don't even want to.
I can't wait until the blogging bubble bursts. No, really. I can't.
It bugs me that blogs can be used for character assassination and the person being talked about can't reply, or sometimes doesn't even know about it.
They have their own little blog featuring different pictures from the site as well. http://blog.flickr.com/
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
I remember the first photoblog I went to was one from an american living in Japan. It has been amazing watching his photography improve. Check it out at http://www.sushicam.com
Jisho - A Japanese English German Russian French Dictionary for the rest of us.
A song a day! Now that sounds fun!
It's called bikini a day (via email)
s/bikini/nude/
s/nude/pr0n/
True friends are hard to come by... I need more money. - Calvin
Look at this guy's site: johnstonefitness.com.
He was overweight, pale and ill (as I am right now). He had balls to change himself and recorded progress every month, you literally can watch him leaning, bulking... Pretty cool.
- Arwen, I'm your father, Agent Smith.
- Well, you're just Smith, but my father is Aerosmith!
I started 30yearproject.com the day I turned 30, September last year. I planned on it being a photoblog, a photo a day.
It sort of worked, but decided it just wasn't interesting enough when I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary.
Then again, when I spent four months in Zimbabwe this year, putting up a photo each day was difficult, but people were in fact interested to see what the world looked like 'down there'.
It has to be said, a full months' worth of pictures does look nice, but I've gone back to a regular blog-like opening page for more convenience.
I don't know how new or groundbreaking photoblogs are for readers, but as a working professional photographer I find mine to be a valuable venue to try out experiments, or show personal work (in my case, really personal work), or just air pieces that I've done that clients might be too timid to publish. I think, just as "normal" blogs, they're probably an intermediate evolution in the publishing paradigm, a transition from editor-mediated publishing to a direct creator-consumer relationship. At the very least they represent a handy way to share my artist's sketchbook with readers who want something a little more "raw" and direct.
You can check mine out at dailysiege.com. Sorry, standard warnings: free reg. req., try bugmenot.com, and most definitely not safe for work, or for kiddies.
http://www.fotolog.net/ Static, been around a while, good design and lots of technical glitches.Simple, 1 photo a day. http://www.flickr.com/ Still in Beta, makes extensive and phenomenal use of flash, amazing design, and seems pretty stable already. 10mb bandwidth/month
http://www.fotolog.net/cypher/
http://www.fotolog.net/treebeard/
http://flickr.com/groups/circle/
may cause excessive cravings for low quality russian cameras!
I know I want one now...
i did a photoblog in 2002 when i got my first digital camera, but lost most of the images because of a server crash. (i recently resurrected it on blogspot.com.) i had no idea it was such a trend. . .
oh well. it's still a lot of fun to do.
cheers,
chris deckard
saint louis mo
"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - R. Feynman
A complete asbence of content... NOW WITH PICTURES!!!
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Bruce Brace has been doing this forever with his 12hr ISBN-JPEG project, in fact the 10th anniversay is December 30th. He's been posting a photo to alt.12hr, alt.binaries.pictures.12hr, alt.binaries.pictures.misc, alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc every 12 hours since 1994. Here's a link to more info.
The project has all sorts of different kind of photographs, the last time I was keeping track of it it was all black and white, most of it was very subjective, pictures of people, pictures of things, then all of a sudden it changed to abstractions and non-subjective images. I have no idea what it's up to now...
sig.
heh saw this a few weeks back.. http://mobiledrunks.com
Pocket Girls. Mobile Adult Mini Mags for your Phone.
Man I don't know where you guys have been but I've had a Photo Blog for a while with this company:
http://www.picsfolio.com/
How this topic made it past the editors is beyond me. It's a first: a lame /. article.
OK. If we're gonna play, here is our phot-o-blog. But please, if you recognize us, don't rat on us to the authorities. Our cell is comfortably dug in.
Tell me again, who knew Mary was a virgin, and how did they know?
I find that flickr actually has too many features. It's hard to which of the dozens of different pages you need to go to in order to do what you want to do. Also, it's kind of ugly, which is important for a visually-oriented site.
Fotolog was nice and simple, just the right level of functionality, before it got overwhelmed by Brazilian camgirls. These days I use http://www.fotothing.com/ which is similar, has a few more features, but is just getting started. Only 200 users so far. Sign up now, get the userid you want!
It's only a matter of time before we can actually see Curry's bong on our photo iPods...
did you win a free ipod? build a case for it here
find that flickr actually has too many features. It's hard to which of the dozens of different pages you need to go to in order to do what you want to do. Also, it's kind of ugly, which is important for a visually-oriented site.
True. I like and use Flickr (bought a Pro account, even), but its creators have been very confused about what they are creating. At first there was a solid "sharing photos you found" slant, including a live chat in which you could post photos from your collection. And there were generally too many features based around chatting and goofy forums that had nothing to do with photography or sharing photos.
Now at least they are focused on people taking their own pictures, sharing them with others, and people commenting on the ones the like.
I do like some Flickr features, such as tags.
Fuckr Flickr, use Buzznet. Much better features, nicer folks running it, and very simple to use.
...therefore I think it's obvious what needs to happen now.
It's not like Michael is worth anybody's time anyhow. Nobody shall miss him, except Roland.
If photoblogs are quickly becoming the next cool thing in the blog world, will my electric monk need more memory or will I have to look at the pictures myself?
Seriously. I have taken 13000 photographs on my digital SLR (Canon 10D) and I've kept every single one of them.
How many make it to the light of day for friends? Maybe 3000 - events, etc, where they want to see every shot.
How many make it to prints? Maybe 300.
How many make it to the wall? So far 0, but I have 3 picked out.
A visual diary.... yeah, old news. Art Wolfe did that a long time ago, with Film. And that was 1 EXPOSURE per day.
I have actually found an interesting thematic photoblog, it is a girl who got a digital camera for her 29th birthday and decided to take a picture of herself each day for the next year until she turns 30.
,br>She ads in some commentary and I have found it quite good at times, blah at others.
http://www.watchmeturn30.com/
I photo blog with my Nokia 3650. Unfortunately, the time the image was taken is not stored in the (non existant) exif headers, so sometimes the story is out of order. Check out my mobog posts and my personal posts for examples. Not quite a literary thing, but hey -- a picture tells a thousand words.
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
Personally, I hate those kind of "look, how stylish we are" websites which have such a crappy usability (just look at the small fonts, the missing contrasts, etc.)
;-)
Jakob Nielsen (www.useit.com) would agree
-- Watch me working: www.magerquark.de
You wouldn't think that would be a problem what with cameras doing that for you nowadays.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
Today I pulled my ass apart very wide indeed. I hope nobody sees it and posts it on the Internet!
Somehow I totally missed that angle looking at the site. Thanks for the clarification!
That is very interesting, I'll have to try comparing that to google image search. it does seem more "picture" oriented...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It's true that common things can provide great pictures. But looking at anyones photos day to day can get wearing, even if they are a master of composition.
That's why I have trouble imagining anything but a highly nomadic audience for any given photo blog.
I guess it's more the "picture of the day" kind of galleries I'm thinking of. More sporadic output can also be more interesting. For instance there's a blog from a soldier in Iraq that just started up, which is interesting as he has some really nice images of places most of us will never see, and also a little bit of description about what is going on there. He doesn't post every day (only twice so far) but that makes it better for me.
I really don't mean to belittle daily photo people or photo bloggers. I even have thought about doing a daily photo blog myself. But I stop when I try to imagine who would ever look at it!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
p0rn?
Lake District Desktops
(Pictures of the English Lake District)
Bill
Photo blogs may not be new, as some of the posts suggested, but I just discovered them a few months ago and decided to try my own variation based on the Indeterminacy recordings made by John Cage (1959), pairing random music and sounds with one minute short stories.
At http://indeterminacy.blogspot.com/ I am posting photos I found using p2p programs, along with an original story suggested by the image. Today's story, just posted, is the 67th. I have been able to keep up a pace of one found photo / story set a day, with a two week break for vacation. One of the forum posts gave a link to my blog, which is how I found out about this article, but I thought I should add a little background information.
Does anyone know of other photoblogs with a similar idea?
Yes, I know it's impossible/impracticable
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
What I like is this site...
It features mobile camera photos of asses, what else, plus some legs and breasts too..
Moblogging software by some geeks I happen to know: Blogia. Just see the pictures for the story.
Teaching. Philadelphia. Next! Isolated Alaska. Damn. See it.
http://tunt.blogspot.com/
Yes , if you think you're really interesting and lead a fascinating life but until now no one has ever believed you, heres your chance to put it to the masses. Modesty be damned, your trip to the toilet really IS something to be noted for posterity, that cup of coffee you just made WAS a masterpiece , and that dog of yours COULD easily be the next Lassie.
So , if you're so full of your own self importance that you think it should've been you in the election run this month, then start a photo block!
i mainly use gallery 1.4.x - http://gallery.sf.net/ - and WordPress - http://wordpress.org/ - to create my photoblog. i host them on the same server and subdomain so its easier to reference.
v es/2004/08/27/weekend-sleep/
a sample page can be found at http://scaturan.negimaki.com/blog/index.php/archi
both scripts are VERY easy to setup. ideally, you only need Apache's mod_rewrite, a mySQL account, lots of webspace and netPBM to get it up and running. altogether, the setup takes less than 5 minutes. but that's if you know what you're doing. read the docs.
if you have questions, feel free to join the #WordPress or #gallery IRC channels on irc.freenode.net - http://freenode.net/
Photoblogging is so kick ass. It rocks better than Linus Tor, whatever the hell his name is. To turn the mirror on Slashdot, how about checking out the commments over at http://blog.photoblogs.org/2004/11/photoblogs_slas .html#comments where the photobloggers comment back on the slashdot article. Example: "those comments are a joke, 3/4 of the negative viewpoints on there are coming from people who appear to not know anything about design, photography, art, or humanity for that matter. Reading most of them was a waste of my time, I would like to ask for those few moments of my life back...haha"
My own most recent photo series is entitled Reflections on Manhattan. http://thomashawk.com/2004/09/reflections-on-manha ttan.html
Now go buy a digital camera, get the hell out your house for once and go take some damn pictures of some flowers or something and report back! You only need to go outside for about two hours. Think of the bright side, you can start a hard drive defrag and it might be done by the time you get back.
Am I missing something, or do you have to register even to search for photos? Seems a bit of a handicap if you want people to see your pics. After all, we don't like registration here on /., do we? *cough* NY times *cough*
Over at deviantART there is a regular stream of reports of 'ripping' - taking someone else's photos and passing them off as your own - in the forums and elsewhere. It's not just amateur photographers who are finding their work being ripped, a lot of professional photographers are being targetted as well. Unfortunately, the culprits are hard to trace down, and the sites that host them are often slow to take action, if they even bother. The only solution, it seems, is to put a large, visible watermark on your pictures, ALL of them - and even then some particularly boneheaded individuals still go and rip them...
-MT.
-MT.
No, I'm not registered. Although it is being very slow today.
is Am I Naked?
I agree. You may like FILE Magazine, which is not a blog, but a more focussed approach to a community photo site.
forgot my login...arghhhh. Sure photoblogging is popular, but not new. No need to restate the obvious. There's a number of venues out there. I have an admittedly biased inclination for FotoAmigo.com: http://www.fotoamigo.com Lots of artists there, the site is fast, friendly folk, no attitudes for the most part. It's a photo blog network community. It's searchable. It's ad-free and supported by modest monthly or annual fees. FotoAmigo has features you just don't see on other phoblogs. If you check it out, my FotoAmigo username is: jjohnson
WebMonkey has an introduction (thankfully Flash-free) to the related subject of "toy" cameras.
There are lots of photo blog networks out there, obviously. Some better than others, each with issues. Here are some I dig.
FotoAmigo: http://www.fotoamigo.com
still small community, fast page loads, lots of artists, friendly people, comments section under each image, site is searchable by main and sub cats and keyword, directories for country, state, camera color (level), and amigos online (users currently logged in to the site), free and paying levels
Fotolog: http://www.fotolog.net
massive and exciting as a result, painfully slow page load at heavy traffic times, free and paying levels
free photo blog at http://www.fotoamigo.com
Going digital is the great equalizer. Making content digital means you can make perfect reproductions with no loss of data. Just as music and movies have been stolen by digital pirates, so too will be the fate for digital photographs. In today's materialistic society where self worth is measured by the make and model of our cars, capability of our televisions, age of our clothing, expense of our home, and where our children see it is more important to receive rather than to give; there is no compulsion to not steal. People will see something they want and simply take it. It's easy to do in the increasingly digital society we live in, and it mostly it is free. Soon, that will change. In the future, as select minority that is increasing is size, ruin the accessiblity of content we all enjoy; we will long for a return to the days of digital freedom.
"But Ciphertext, piracy has been around for ages. It is nothing new!" you say. However, it has never been so easy to be a pirate, the potential for damage so great, and the concept has never been more acceptable by so many.
To know is to have knowledge....to understand is to be enlightened.