I’ve been having a lot of fun with Flickr lately. I like seeing the different ways my photos get reused. From Wikipedia to Schmap.com to a women’s magazine. Just for fun, I have added a “reused” tag to each of the photos I know has been reused somewhere. Here’s what I have so far.
This is all just anecdotal, but it seems that people really started reusing my photos around the same time I changed all 1500+ of them over to an Attribution-only Creative Commons license. Although, for all I know, it could be that more and more Flickr users are enjoying the same kind of content reuse fame and glory regardless of what license they choose.
But I think it’s just as likely that it has something to do with my willingness to open up my CC license by only asking for attribution without adding a bunch of other conditions that make reusers nervous. The truth is, I really don’t care if people use my photos commercially. In fact, I think it’s kind of neat to see what happens with them. In a way, they take on a life of their own. And you never know where they might end up.
Any other Flickr users out there that have seen your photos reused?
Monday, 24. March 2008
I use the online version of Google Picasa for photo sharing. But, to be honest, I’ve personally never been a fan of sharing my photos online. But maybe I should… It almost sounds like a one-way ticket to fame and fortune!
By the way, what do you use as a desktop app for organizing/storing your pictures? (I assume you don’t just rely on Flikr?)
Monday, 24. March 2008
One last question: didn’t you have one of your photos of a shed become part of an online shed community or something? If there’s any truth to that, you should definitely update this post with a link to the famous shed.
Friday, 28. March 2008
Yes, I actually entered my shed into a flickr shed group as well as into a competition called “Shed Week.” Here’s the invitation I got. Only on Flickr could you find this kind of thing…
“Please add your favourite shed images to this group..
If they are your own sheds then go to http://www.readersheds.co.uk, add them for shed of the year, otherwise add any sheds you find when you are out and about to this group, When “shed week” we will have a Photo competition will be judged by of team of top sheddies, So make them as arty as you like and you could win”
Friday, 28. March 2008
As for your first question, I mainly just use iPhoto to keep things organized on my laptop. A separate hard drive and Leopard’s new Time Machine feature is all I use for backups. Flickr has a nifty tool called Flickr Uploadr (for PC and Mac), which is a cool utility for uploading my best photos. But I have heard good things about Picasa. If you use it, what do you like/dislike about it? What are the space limitations?
Friday, 28. March 2008
I was thinking of doing a separate post on Picasa at some point. Overall I really like it, but there a couple things that I’d like to see changed/added. I don’t know that it has space limitations, though.