Photosharing

Mmmm, pass the sweet photos around, aren't they tasty?

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Why Photosharing?

This topic may be one you think is not so special, but the rapid ascent of digital cameras as a consumer item, has revolutionized not just the business of old companies like Kodak. Personal photographs are important to people of almost every culture and age, and that creates a special motivation for people to learn how to use new technologies.

And now with mobile phones and PDAs becoming equipped with cameras, there are even more and easy ways to capture a snapshot.

The Magic And Zen of flickr

Among the the many online sites for posting, sharing, and communcation about digital images, flickr stands out for many reasons. In 2005, flickr was acquired by Yahoo, so if you have a Yahpp ID, you can use that same username to create a free flickr collection.

Here is a big but interesting list of things flickr

• in page editing upload tools + email + cameraphone
• Alan's flickr
• Sets and Slideshows
• Syndication Publish to Blog

• Tags and Tag surfing:
• Mine
• Camera Toss exotic images mad eby people who toss their cameras and take long exposures
• Everyone's
• Grand Canyon
• Eyeball
• Iraq

• Groups -- Discuss and share image pools:
• Squared Circle
• Recipes to Share
• Literature Hoedown

• Hotspots:
• Tarte au citron
• Volcano Diagram
• Art History Class

• Reuse is Simple:
• Flickr Creative Commons where all the food photos on this blog were found

• Interesting Uses:
• Digital Scrapbook Find your elementary school in Google Maps and than add hotspots to annotate
• flicktion Flickr fiction
• Flickr Peep Show an art exhibit in Amsterdam

• Flickr Services -- Third Party Apps
• Tag Related Browser explore the relationship between images
• Mappr map photos by geographics location
• Clockr It's Flickr Time Digital clock with digits from flickr images
• flickr postcard browser navigate images in a postcard like layout
• Flickr Graph
• Flickr Vancouver aerial map
• Flickr Montager build an image out of tiny smaller images
• Flickr Album create a flip photo album
• Spell with Flickr
• FlickrPapr make wallpaper images from smaller images
• Color Fields Colr Pickr
• delivr create a digital postcard from flickr images
• bickr
• flickr tag fight

Photoblogging

The way flickr chronologically organizes photos (newest photos first) makes it simiar to weblogs (TryWeblogs). There are numerous other services that provide a similar functionality. the ones that specialize in blogging images posted by mobile phone or moblogging and there are also emerging blogs made from video or vidblogging.

See these examples:

• Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images
• Arteach Robert Burget's (Chandler-Gilbert Community College) Buzznet PhotoBlog
• Joi Itos's Moblog
• Ephemera Photos By Derek Powazek
• Exitwound
• Chicago Uncommon Photographs by Dawn Mikulich
• Shutterbug Photos by Tracey Hoyng, student from Sydney Australia
• Eyes Lover contributed collection of eyes
• Ten Years of My Life Matthew Haughey is working on taking a photo every day for ten years of his life.
• \"Taken a good picture lately?\" BBC News- Submit digital images form a phone to the BBC News site
• Visual voices from Cambodia: Diary II
• Southern California Wild Fires "See the latest images from the Southern California wildfires, taken by people on the ground with camera phones and digital cameras."
• Photoblogs.org "a resource designed to help people find all kinds of photoblogs"
• Moblogging.org "Software, Hardware and regularly updated news regarding moblogging"

• 7 Things You Should Know About Videoblogging
• Vidblogs.com
• Edawrd Flicn Vidblog
• Throught the Mirrorball

Where to Go?

Explore some of the sites that offer photoblogging services - create an account and start uploading!

• flickr
• buzznet
• fotolog
• Bubbleshare create a sharable set of photos w/o having to create an account!
• PhotoBlog
• Mobogs.com (moblogs)
• textamerica moblogging

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