“I trashed my entire LinkedIn profile. Just got rid of it.” Why, I asked. “Because people, other photographers, were contacting my clients through my LinkedIn profile.” This photographer, who has asked to remain anonymous, reflects a growing concern about the privacy and interworkings of social networking sites like LinkedIn, Myspace, and Facebook, among others. (Continued … Read more
Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) has a potential liability on their hands if it does not properly warn users of Adobe Photoshop (and others) that when they choose “Save for Web and devices…” that they are stripping all of the metadata (including ownership information) from the files, unless they take the action of choosing “Include XMP” within … Read more
James Nachtwey’s TED Prize gets announced this week, and we’re helping spread the word. Watch the video, and check the “X” box on the right to find out what the story is on October 3rd. Video archived — restoration pending.(Comments, if any, after the Jump) Please post your comments by clicking the link below. If … Read more
What bar-room napkin was this silly dot-bomb idea written on? Someone should save it for posterity to remind future “brilliant-idea” purveyors of how miserable these types of failures can be. I mean, come on – a free photographer’s website where the hosting company’s profits come from advertisers on the photographers’ sites? Really?(Continued after the Jump)There … Read more
So, Alamy has reached a critical mass that they’ve decided they can begin to take advantage of their photographers.Generally speaking, when a business decides to expand it’s operations, they don’t call all their suppliers and tell them “well, we’re growing our business and opening a new office, so what we paid you before for your … Read more
Do you trust something that is done under dark of night? How about when everyone else is focused elsewhere? How about when you sneek your bad idea onto someone elses’ really great idea – like a swarm of gnats around hot dog stand on cool fall evening?Re-enter Orphan Works, which did just that. At the … Read more
We are officially in Web 2.0. In fact, if you’re on the bleeding edge, you are currently doing your research on the emergence of Web 3.0 – and it’s coming. You know that because when magazine covers are touting Web 2.0, it’s already arrived many many months earlier, if not years. Ok, so, your most … Read more
PhotoPlus Expo (October 23rd through the 25th, in New York City) is right around the corner, and the early-bird discounts are available only until 10/3. Below are the seven programs that I highly recommend. It’s a full three days of all that is the business of photography. Go get DVD’s for how to light, and … Read more
Peter Land (Profile: LinkedIn) is up to his old tricks again, thinking that horse racing is on par with, oh, say, the NBA, where he toiled for 5 years. We first reported back in August (Breeders Cup – Coming Up Lame, 8/11/08) that the Breeders Cup was trying to restrict images that were shot there.Now, … Read more
You know, sometimes you just gotta stop and laugh. This is the kinda laugh that you throw your head back and laugh out loud. I recall the uproar – pre-MacIntel – when an advertisement for Intel chips, it was revealed, was made with an Apple.Now, let’s have a little chuckle in the latest round of … Read more
