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Orphan Works, Copyright, TinEye and Kittens.

December 9th, 2008 | MA, business, industry news, technology | No comments

Last week I attended an ASPP-sponsored copyright lecture with lawyer Nancy Wolff at Pearson’s in Boston. Absolutely worth searching her out on the speaker circuit. Good review, great new information.
Industry watchers are betting the Orphan Works law will be passed. Question is when and what version. The dilemma for photographers, especially freelancers, is that most [...]

The Plot Thickens

October 15th, 2008 | projects, technology | No comments

Enough doom and gloom. After another week of market dips, I want some shallow fun. Enter a plucky British cell phone game called sub-plotting. For 50p you sign up to participate in a photo essay with complete strangers and no theme. Result is an oddly connected but utterly random story.
Premise is once you receive an [...]

Is your image a barrier or a gateway?

September 24th, 2008 | education, technology | No comments

English is read left to right. The upper left corner of a site is often considered the start point and valuable real estate. But how to people continue to scan the page?
Gender matters - especially when you move past click-thrus and look at conversion triggers. According to an Enquiro Research white paper called ‘Website Barrier [...]

Fotonauts: new image search app

September 11th, 2008 | technology | No comments

Fotonauts is in beta testing for a new photo search engine. Idea is to use tagging to pull images from Flickr and other services into one searchable database.
Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Webware:
Fotonauts crafts Wikipedia for photos | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
At the TechCrunch50, fotonauts rolled out is new [...]