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well duuh!

[From A Photo Editor - Hello, Is That The Bottom I See?]

Magazines: We estimate magazine advertising revenue to decrease 15.0% in 2009 (vs. our prior down 12.5% estimate) and decline a further 5.0% in 2010.

Is anybody surprised?

...but have we ever

[From Valleywag]

sorry the article isn't about photography or identity per se, but a thought provoking read anyway, particulalry if you are paranoid about your identity online.

Should we be alarmed?

[From Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics]

Same old same old?

Through the vagaries of hyper-linking I found this site called Photo-shelter.

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This site has a more commercial bent to it than flickr and other sites I've compared., it aims to sell 'stock' photographs. I've created an account and have been poking around for a few hours. While it doesn't have the smooth and intuitive, albeit flash driven feel of flickr, it's not bad. There maybe some social networking aspects to the site, but I've yet to find them. Which makes sense the site is about selling images.

Their up-loader on the other hand is not my liking, nor suited to my style of organising imagery. A beautiful tool is a sight to behold, and a joy to work with, this is none of those. If I am to spend extensive amounts of time using a tool, I'd prefer if it was elegant simple to use and had some sense of visual logic to it.

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Since the recent upgrade of Movable Type, I've NOT been receiving e-mail notifications of comments. So I'm manually checking to see if folks have commented. If you've left a comment over the last few weeks and it has not appeared, please, e-mail me or leave another. I am checking more regularly now.

Yesterday I blogged about what I thought was an unauthorised use of one of my images.

Needless to say my fears were unfounded. The authors of the video that was used to market the book, was the only place that my image was used, and I've been attributed for my image so it's all fair and square.

This is in my mind the right way to behave in the digital era.

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I signed up for this online photo editing service, a.viary.com, with what appears to be a social twist. I have 4 invites left, let me know if you want one.

I'm currently with out my laptop and it's associated software, stay tuned for updates

A whimsical self portrait created using fd's tools, and these 12 questions from this blog

Our national broadcaster has blogged about my trolley project.

[From Articulate: Lots and lots of photos of shopping trolleys]

Firstly, I am surprised that the ABC has a blogging system in place, secondly, I'm glad some one else, would appreciate the now finished project.

Here's a great laugh!

..."My Nikon contact tells me their R&D people are now working on a system that eliminates the photographer altogether. Nikon's customer research has discovered that when a photographer takes a great image, they claim all the credit. But when a photographer takes a bad image, they blame the camera.

By eliminating the photographer, Nikon plan to eliminate lousy photos altogether..."

[From Nikon D90 Specifications Revealed]

Now if folks in this thread would just read it!

Haven't really been following this debate, but makes for an interesting read

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Microsoft reverses version targeting default.

[From Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Microsoft reverses version targeting default]

This is my favourite bit:-

"given a company-wide reorientation away from proprietary winner-take-all competitiveness and toward interoperability"

Netvibes a neat little tool I'm using to monitor all sorts of feeds data and other Web 2.0 stuff has just added a new feature of a public page and added a more sociable context to the site, page.

You can find me on, this page.

Photography and memory are culturally intertwined in ways that are beyond my abiltiy to write about, but this little find, is; well; worth a thousand words.

[From Message in a bottle « Flickr Blog]

Perhaps you might like to skip the blog entry and head straight over, to photojojo?

Errr this assumes you have a flickr account right?

The new game on flickr, laugh at the search terms people use on google and yahoo and get a bigger laugh on the images they find

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Just sent off a request to Aviary - Creation on the fly / tools, for access to their software when it's launched.

[From Aviary - Creation on the fly / tools]

Thanks to Subbzy for the heads up

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This service I signed up for some time ago, not really sure what it did, and upon revisiting last month I discovered it's like a giant feed off all your other web activities, like tumbler only more personal.

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Here's some boring stats from my flickr stats page.

I wish there was an easy way to find all these images and add them to groups and add tags etc.

Since flickr enabled their users to turn on stats for their accounts it's been interesting to see where some of the traffic comes from on my photostream

One of those sources is a site called yotophoto.com, they are one of several sites out there, pulling data from flickr and allowing users to search for images based on the creative commons idea of sharing images. While this site accounts for less than 1% of my total views, it's good to see that tagging pays off even if people are looking at my stream for reasons other than artistic merit.

sigh... why am I NOT surprised?

[From Hey, Isn't That . . . - washingtonpost.com]

Nestscape ends at version 9, I've a bit of a soft spot for this software and have downloaded the last version, even though the project in now ending

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I did, mine is optusnet.com.au

It's interesting seeing how my images are used around the internet, the consumerist uses this image, in an article about Borders and plastic bags, another article about rock and roll and taxes used a graffiti image of Jim Morrison that I photographed, to decry the lack of 'attitude' to the tax department.

All this thanks to bighugelabs.com's flickr dna page.

Melbourne Victoria Australia, Workshop Bar Elizabeth St.

Thanks to Burntfilm [Rob].

A new feature has been introduced to the flickr experience, called places, it allows you to search for and find images of places around the globe.

Blogger has just added a neat little slide show feature that allows you to run a slide show in the sidebar of your blog, all you need is an account with someone like flickr or paint-bucket or picassa, and away you go.

The Googalyzer. Another browser, with an interesting feature set, designed for hard research, allowing users to keep notes and run multiple research projects at once.

I particularly like the button for google scholar.

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New Browser on the market folks, sea monkey. Check it out. Released, last month. yeah I know I know hardly cutting edge, but this ain't no technological blog ok?

Currently I use the following browsers in descending order of frequency, or have at least experimented with them:- Safari, Camino , Firefox, Flock, Opera

While I download it in the background I'll try and head all 3 of you off at the pass. Why so many browsers, I hear you ask, well, web design is a bit of a side interest of mine. Being able to view my work in ANY browser gives me a feel for how it MAY look elsewhere. Of course until I get a Macbook, sometime in 2008, I will need to rely on the kindness of other people I know who use PC's to surf the web.

On the surface nothing seems all that different from other versions of Netscape browsers, all the usual stuff like built-in e-mail, & news groups, and a html writer, called composer, 1996 anyone?

It can be dressed up with themes I see but the toolbar doesn't appear to be customisable at this stage, still I guess it's in early development so who knows?

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