May 1st, 2009 Archive

Save a magazine, go buy a car.

May 1st, 2009 | business, industry news | No comments

Portfolio magazine billed me $12.00 in April for a print subscription. Two weeks later, Conde Naste stops publication. Same situation with the old Domino title. Billed then closed. Newsweek, Wired and The New Yorker beware. I have recently sent my cursed money your way.
Truth be told, the downfall of Portfolio is not my fault. According [...]

Keywording for stock. Annotator has suggestions.

May 1st, 2009 | industry news | No comments

The U.K company Imense - which specializes in image recognition and retrieval software - rolled out a new keyword tagging product called Annotator. Company states that “depending on the type of images you shoot, your keywording time will be reduced by 40-75%.”
Associative keywording, creating a CSV to send to your distribution agent, output keywords, up-to-the-minute [...]