Last week I (and many others) spent a lot of time documenting the Internet Librarian conference, photos, tweets, blog posts, facebook updates. Did the act of digitally documenting the events change anything? Did the process of lifestreaming change my (and others) behavior, perception of what was happening and memories of it. Will we remember it better or worse? A recent … Continue reading Put Down the Phone and Pay Attention
Tag: Flickr
How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr
Yes, the absolute correct way! I previously asked how you credit a CC photo from Flickr. Since then I've been doing my research and here is the results - The correct way to credit a photo. You need to follow the guidelines set by the license. I'm only going to address attribution. According to Creative … Continue reading How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr
How do you attribute Creative Commons Flickr photos?
Update 9/28/2009 Please see this post on the correct way to attribute photos, it includes example of an perfect attribution. I get most of the great photos I use in my blog posts from the Creative Commons licensed pictures on Flickr. Most of these request attribution and I've seen it done many different way. Some … Continue reading How do you attribute Creative Commons Flickr photos?
Flickr commons for libraries and museums
Flickr commons develop in 2007 – LoC approached Flickr about sharing photos, encouraging users tagging jan 16th 2008 launched Many nations now participating Can now only search the commons http://www.flickr.com/commons/ Brooklyn Museum - contributing to the commons caused flickr account to get flooded with comments, also posting photos that they “think” are something posting to … Continue reading Flickr commons for libraries and museums
You’ve got 30 minutes, how do you use them?
I've seen some interesting conversations pop up online lately about FriendFeed vs Twitter, if spending time on Friendfeed killed your blog, (or not) that feedreaders are dead. Here is the thing, most of us don't have that much time to spend online, networking, learning, creating content, whatever. I remember Helene Blowers talking about taking 15 … Continue reading You’ve got 30 minutes, how do you use them?
Search Flickr by Color
I came across this cool tool from Idée on Circulation this morning. It allows you to search Flickr Creative Commons liscensed photos (or photos from Alamy) by clicking on the color or colors you want the photos to have. You then click on the thumbnail to get the photo and the liscense information. The only down … Continue reading Search Flickr by Color
One more way to use Flickr – videos!
Earlier this month I attended a Mobius conferernce session about vodcasting in libraries. I came back all inspired and fired up. I don't think our patrons are ready for vodcasting yet but that didn't stop me from making videos. Even better is was perfect timing for Flickr allowing 90 second videos that are much better quality … Continue reading One more way to use Flickr – videos!
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