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Photo Share Podcast #8

Bill Hector Weye — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:31:59 +0000

Today’s podcast includes part two of our conversation with David Muir from Glasgow, Scotland. We talk about censorship of the Internet and Flickr by various countries and schools, which is a complicated issue. Also, I clarify exactly what gets censored on the internet in the United States.

The photo of the week comes from Brees Knees. I like this photo; it’s kind of creepy and spooky.

Sandra and I talked about Schmap, who contacted her about contributing a photo for their travel pamphlet. Our consensus was that it was a rip-off; the company asks to use your photos, doesn’t pay anything for the privilege, then tells you that the privilege and honor is YOURS. Total B.S.

We have a good question of the week, one that should generate a lot of response: What level of censorship do you think is appropriate for primary and secondary schools that use Flickr? Are you aware of any local policies in regards to censorship of the Internet in your local schools?

We’re trying to grow our great audience, so if you know someone that might be interested, please let them know about Photo Share Podcast.

Thanks for listening. Have a good week.

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Photo Share Podcast #7

Bill Hector Weye — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:17:17 +0000

This week we have our first Skype interview. David Muir joins us from Glasgow, Scotland to discussÂ copyrightÂ issues,Â Creative Commons,Â and his experience with these issues in his job of training teachers in Scotland. David mentioned a good video explaining Creative Commons Licenses and how they work; you can find a few different Creative Commons videos here.

We also want to thank Harry Harris, who submitted the photo of the week. It’s an interesting picture because it’s a composite photo made from 4 different photos.

Finally, our question of the week, which you can answer on the Photo Share Podcast Flickr group, on the Web site, or on the comment line:

Have you ever tagged another flickr member’s photo or vice versa. If someone has tagged yours, how does it make you feel? Ever delete a tag someone else has left?

Have a great week!

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Photo Share Podcast #6

Bill Hector Weye — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:32:09 +0000

We’re here, just a day late. We started off talking about an old friend of mine, Todd, who’s doing some interesting photography work with found photos and story telling (he’s a pretty good photographer too). You can find Todd’s Flickr photostream here. Hopefully he’ll be a guest on a future show.

Our photo of the week, which you can see above, is from Greg in Ontario. It’s an interesting low light photo taken at 800 iso; look at the large size and you can see how much he had to push.

Because of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, a lot of new equipment was release last week, and a bunch of it had integration with Flickr, like this DVR and a really nifty wireless network picture frame that takes photos from an RSS photo feed like those found on Flickr.

Also in the news, we talked about the financial troubles of Yahoo! and how that might affect Flickr, if at all. This article in the NY Times paints a pretty bleak picture (no pun intended), and speculates about the possible purchase of Yahoo! by Microsoft.

And that brings us to the new question of the week, ” If Yahoo merged with another company, do you think Flickr would be affected and how?”.

You can leave comments either on the Photo Share Podcast Flickr group, by email, or by calling our comment line at 206-339-7374.

Our question last week, “How do you feel about people critiquing your photos on Flickr?”, generated more or less similar responses: people aren’t really on Flickr to get critiques. It’s a social site where people can meet and learn about photography. But other people don’t mind the critiques. I guess it depends if you actually submit your photos to a group whose purpose is the critiquing of photos.

Anyhow, talk with you next week.

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Photo Share Podcast #4

Bill Hector Weye — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:24:22 +0000

We’re on the verge of a new year and we’re still producing the podcasts. No sleep for us!

We’d like to thank our photo of the week winner vulcanhalfbreed365. Nobody really wins anything, but it’s fun to recognize and talk about the interesting photos that people submit.

Also on the podcast plate, in our continuing series, we talked about Flickr mash-ups and the directory of nearly 300 different Flickr related mash-ups. And the mash-up we featured was Feel Image, a application that aggregates multiple photo sharing sites and makes them searchable by tags. This one has some real potential.

On the news front we highlighted a new Mac OS X application called Flickr Fan, which integrates the RSS feeds from Flickr into the operating system screen saver. Right now it’s in beta, but I like what I see so far. I haven’t used it, but I’m told there’s a similar program called Slickr for the PC people.

In our last bit of news we discussed the story about FOX stealing the content from a Flickr user to use on an NFL broadcast; it’s becoming more and more common for corporations to steal content from average people instead of paying for it.

And lastly, we have a new feature: question of the week. Each week we’ll pose a new question, which we ask you to answer either via the comment line or email, then next week we’ll discuss the responses.

The question this week is, Do people use more than one online photo sharing web site?

Thanks for listening, and we’ll talk to you next week.

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Photo Share Podcast #3

Bill Hector Weye — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:53:28 +0000

First off, our photo of the week is one that I wanted to choose as soon as he contributed it to the group. I’m grateful that Paul V Specht took the time to contribute the photo, plus he called in to our comment line to to give us a brief story about the photo. Thanks, Paul. Those of us who are interested in medium format photography appreciate the tips.

We also talked about a couple of different Flickr mash-ups. There’s the fun time waster Fastr that you can play against other people; images pop up on the screen and you try to guess the common tag among all the photos. The other mash-up we talked about was Tagnautica. This one we didn’t like as much because there seemed to be something missing, despite the neat Flash interface.

In the news we talked about the Flickr Forum in Toronto, the new television show in the UK called Picture This, and two improvements to Flickr: an upgrade to version 3.0 for Uploadr and a new stats feature.

And Sandra told us about three really nice people she’s met through Flickr: Matt, who bought some used shoes he saw in one of Sandra’s photos (funny story), a woman from Thailand who gave her photography tips, and Susan, who has been a good friend around the holidays.

We’re not taking a break for the holidays, so stay tuned. We’ll be back with another podcast on New Year’s eve.

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Photo Share Podcast #2

Bill Hector Weye — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:57:49 +0000

Sorry for being a little late with podcast number 2; we had some technical difficulties, plus we’re going to be changing our publishing date from Friday to Mondays. Hopefully when you wake up Monday morning, the podcast will be waiting for you.

In our second podcast we talk about our photo of the week, contributed by Amy, and how she captured her first attempt at night photography.

Also, we spoke about the Firefox add-on, Flickrfox, that makes browsing through photos on Flickr extremely easy. In future podcasts we’ll be highlighting more of these tools, so if you have a favorite let us know.

Presidential campaign efforts to use social media to reach potential voters and rally their troupes was also a topic. It’s interesting how politicians and others are using Flickr and other social media tools to create a sense of participation in their campaigns.

We also discussed why people might use Flickr even if they don’t really have any photos to share–to increase their Google ranking!

And finally, we talked about a neat Flickr tool created by Drew Myers that allows you to find any photos your contacts have that may have made explorer. Tools like this are made because Flickr makes their application programming interface (API) public. Google and others do the same thing. In future shows we’ll highlight people that create “mash ups“–mixing two or more tools to create a new application.

Finally, we want to thank Chi Weapon for the use of their song Kanji. They’re a band from Scotland that has some great podsafe music. Check them out!

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