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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."
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.
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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
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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- Well, you're just Smith, but my father is Aerosmith!
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/