flickr creative commons

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[edugadget] I would like to add another option and that would be to add images from Flickr with the appropriate Creative Commons licensing into digital storytelling projects. I really like the idea of the idea that there are “real people behind the images:” image a student telling his/her personal story using the personal images of another from Flickr (which I think would be much different than just using images from Google). I’m constantly asked in presentations about copyright issues and digital storytelling. Here’s a way to address it in a teachable moment.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Idiotprogrammer] Recovering from SXSW: Disappointing: 3 keynotes by big name bloggers and writers who had already turned into bigtime celebritiies. Also, I was extremely disappointed to hear about an impromptu session called “Future of Online Critics” only after the fact. Several distinguished writers and critics were at the conference and it would have been nice to discuss web issues (on the other hand, there was a panel about film criticism which I missed).

[notebook] Degrees of play: Imagine: you’re sat at a bus-stop, or in a coffee queue, or staring with dismay at the delays on the timetable in front of you, and you receive a message on your phone asking you to do something, just a small something, nothing taxing or large enough to be worth refusing. Perhaps you have to count the people you can see wearing green hats, or stand in a certain place two feet to your left and pull a grin, or put your bag on the floor when the second message you agree to receive arrives. It’s a moment’s diversion, it doesn’t interfere and it distracts you from the pause imposed upon you by your environment.

[notebook] Comparing folksonomies: Use a keyword browser? Bookmark “http://flickr.com/photos/[USERNAME]/tags/%s/show/” (replacing [USERNAME] with your, erm, user name), give it a keyword of “flickr” and turn your tagged photos into a slideshow without navigating the shifting sands of flickr’s multilayered navigation! Take photos of your text and skip the PowerHell editing! Use other people’s presentational materials for your own career ends!

[Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled] Web 2.0: Cool companies showcasing goodies were debuts like JotSpot, SpikeSource, Sxip, Keyhole, Rojo, as well as Flickr, Laszlo, PubSub, and SocialText.  There's true momentum for lightweight business models.  Oft-mentioned technologies getting significant buzz in the hallway chatter were RSS, Wiki (and especially Wikipedia), Firefox, and Podcasting.  (More interesting, technologies that received no mentions in hallway chatter were SOAP-style Web Services, Longhorn, Bluetooth, and WAP.)

cogdogblog: PS Just the flickr search on "despair" brought a pile of serendipity-found images. See the lonliest hotdog or a dire situation. Follow the "your gone" set of images in order... Is there a mini meme of flickr storytelling?

Flickr Graph: Corante > Strange Attractor >: In Strange Attractor, Suw picks out patterns from the apparent chaos that is the blogosphere. She explores business blogging as well as adjacent territories such as social technologies, writing and storytelling, e-learning, digital rights and journalism.

One Of These Things is Not Like the Other: Internet Publishing: Are You Giving It Away for Free? Learn the differences between print and online publishing, including what online editors are looking for, first electronic rights, payment for contributions, what is considered 'published,' e-books and blogging. Panelists: D. Travers Scott, Claude Summers, Jim Tushinski and Greg Wharton; moderator: Sean Meriweather.

Blog.org by David Brake academic, consultant & journalist: If after reading the description below, Flickr appeals to you and you want to try it out (basic membership is free), instead of visiting the site right away and signing up I would appreciate it if you could email me and I will invite you. There’s an offer available at the moment – if I successfully invite 5 new people to join Flickr I will receive a Flickr Pro Account (valid until September 15th, 2004). Yes I have therefore a small interest in selling you on the idea but I already have other photo library accounts so it’s not a huge deal for me one way or another. Anyway…

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Posted at May 23, 2005 02:51 PM