CC Licenses, APIs and Content Stacks
I just read an article in Wired that pushed a lot of my buttons, and illustrates a number of the points in my talk at the PACA conference two weeks ago. A company called Pro Populi has used some AOL...
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Linked Open Data
Most people think about photo metadata (if they ever think at all) as information that is attached to the photo. Typically, this includes the camera information, like the time of capture or the camera...
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Getty did what?
Getty images are now free. Okay, so I’m trolling. They are not “free.” But editorial and academic uses of unwatermarked images on blogs can now be done for free, as long as the images are embedded in...
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The Engagement Layer
I love the immersive experience of SXSW. Seeing, hearing, conversing, touching and tasting* a culture is essential to getting a real understanding of it. And this place, at least for this week, is the...
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Dateline SXSW - I’ve written over the last year about how Instagram is creating a commercial service to supply photos for editorial and marketing purposes. The legal foundation was laid in January...
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Live Second Display
Musings on the Semiotics of Connected Photography Dateline SXSW – Most people have heard of “Second Screen”. Typically, that refers to the practice of checking out Twitter or Facebook while watching...
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Beyond Pixels Unfestival
Last April, I had the pleasure of attending the Beyond Pixels Unfestival, part of the Nordic Light International Festival of Photography in Christiansund, Norway. Our two day discussion on the future...
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Life without a radio
Dateline SXSW – Attending SXSW without speaking Twitter is like living life without a radio – in a world where everyone else has one. There is an invisible layer of communication that takes place, and...
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UGC and PGC
As I outlined previously in The Fire Hose, there is a flood of User Generated Content (UGC) being redirected for editorial and marketing purposes. The flood waters are rising constantly, as new...
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Lightroom *never* fully expires
Buried in the recent Adobe Creative Cloud rollout was a revolutionary change to the way Lightroom licensing functions. When the license expires, the program keeps on working.* This is a radical...
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