Photo Share Podcast #21: Flowers, Prizes and The LOC

Bill Hector Weye — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:00:38 +0000

We’re baaaaaack! Hard to believe that we’re 21 episodes into this thing . . . did you know that most podcasts are discontinued after just 4 or 5 episodes?

On to the show . . . our photo of the week comes from Basher’s Batey, and we’d like to thank her very much for contributing her work to the group.

Our interview this week, part one of two, is with Helena Zinkham from the Library of Congress. She is one of the team that’s working on the LOC Flickr project. You might have noticed their profile and the photos they’ve uploaded so far. Right now they’re uploading 50 photos a week from the Bain News Service collection, but they’ve already uploaded over 3600 photos. The idea is to make this photos available for people to tag and contribute comments that further contextualize the photos. Stay tuned for the second part next week.

Our question of the week was inspired by some of our interviews. “People often experience life changes which may or may not effect their photography. With or without details, would you like to share how your photography has been effected by these changes?” You can answer the question at the PSP Flickr Group.

While I have you here, I’d like to point you to a new resource on the Web that interacts with Flickr: PhotoShop Express. It’s a Web based tool that allows you to edit and store your photos, plus upload them back to Flickr. Oh, and it’s free.

Speaking of free, we’re having a contest. The purpose of the contest is to promote the podcast — total self interest, I know — but there is some over all benefit: the more popular we become, the better interviews we can get. In that light, I’m giving away 3 domain names that I own. How can you participate in the contest?

You need to promote the podcast on the Web or any other method you can, asking people to come to the Photo Share Podcast and subscribe to the feed. That means you can talk the podcast up on your blog, in your photo stream, on your Flickr profile . . . or any other idea I haven’t thought of. Using our stats package I can tell exactly where our traffic is coming from, so it’ll be pretty easy for me to determine the winner. If you’re doing something interesting you think might not be reflected in our stats, let me know.

To get them you need to either have a Godaddy account or start one (they’re free too). When we announce the winners on the June 16th podcast the first people to contact me will get first choice of the domain name they want. Here are the domains I’ll be giving away: