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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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