Monday, February 16, 2009

Thing 6: Mashups

Something from Flickr Photos

m letter 1969 A byzantines H Hommage à M. Léon Dru, Château d\ Wood Type P

Made with Spell with Flickr. This could be used on any blog or web page for the library to draw attention to a particular topic or post. It could easily be over-used, and then the effect would be lost. I need to learn more about how to control the size first though. It was fun.

Sharing Photographs Online

I think it is wonderful that so many people from all over the world share their images online. Unfortunately, most are readily available for capturing. Why do I say "unfortunately?" Because most people who take an image from the web do not know that the image is not free for the taking; and they do not know how to properly credit the image, even if they know that they should.

Some web sites and some image makers have learned how to protect their images from being captured. Since a link to a web page with an image can be put into your blog or web page, you can still provide access for viewing by others when you share your work.

Being an amateur photographer I have lots of personal photographs, but have been hesitant to put them online. When services like Flickr first came about they did not offer ways to protect your photographs from being copied, now they do. So I am planning on exploring various services like Flickr to use personally.

Photographs taken for work related projects would be fine to post online, because no one would care about protecting them.

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