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Better Your Blogging with the ProBlogger Community

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Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger website is one of the best sources for information on blogging. He’s been blogging about blogging since 2002 and has built up a huge readership that follows his blog. Recently Darren wondered “What would happen if the thousands of bloggers who read ProBlogger each day decided to work together to improve their [...]

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Flickr from Yahoo! and they Want You to Know It

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While searching Flickr tonight I noticed something that caught my eye: That little “from Yahoo!” is new. Even though Yahoo acquired Flickr over four years ago, the Flickr logo had remained un-Yahooed until now. What does it mean? Probably nothing too significant, other than to remind users that Flickr is the largest remaining Yahoo property [...]

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A Sharing Project: Your Photo Blog Subscriptions

There are some great blogs out there by a bunch of talented photographers. I read a bunch of them, but I know that I’m missing out on some great content that I haven’t yet discovered. Likewise, it’s probable that I’m reading some photography blogs that you don’t know about. I bet we’re both missing out [...]

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A Tuesday Assignment: Leave a Comment for a Teacher

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If you’re out there reading a variety of photo blogs, business blogs, or even blogging blogs, odds are that you’ve learned something useful from someone. Today I have a simple assignment: leave a comment on a blog post (or a few) that have taught you something. Let the author know specifically what you learned or [...]

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Cheap Photography Things on Amazon

Recently my wife was making a small order from Amazon and she needed $1.87 to meet the $25 free shipping minimum. I wondered… what interesting photography or social media things might be acquired for cheap on Amazon? Here’s a few ideas: 4gb Compact Flash or SD Cards: Who couldn’t use more storage? I like a [...]

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Flickr Permanently Deletes Yet Another User Without Warning

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Flickr seems to be getting aggressive about deleting accounts. Last week I wrote about the fact that Thomas Hawk was banned from their forums for pointing out situations where Flickr’s staff had made nonreversible deletions of members’ accounts. Today I learned of another deletion, that of San Antonio realtor Matt Stigliano, aka @rerockstar. Unlike some [...]

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Thomas Hawk Banned from the Flickr Help Forums

Thomas Hawk is one of Flickr’s most prolific photographers, posting a couple dozen photos per day (or more). He posts some really great work (for example, see his set of photos with more than 25 “favorites”). His blog has occasionally featured the stories of photographers who have had their work (or even their entire Flickr [...]

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Photo Licensing and the State of Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is the de facto online encyclopedia, providing a vast amount of information on any subject imaginable. Recently New York Times writer Noam Cohen took a look not at the text of Wikipedia, but at the photos. He wasn’t impressed: Photographs are a glaring flaw in the Wikipedia model. Unlike the articles on the site, [...]

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Do You Have a Moment?

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Group photo walks and events can be fun. While Scott Kelby’s recent WorldWide Photo Walk aimed to capture a bunch of images on the same day, another venture wants to cut that time slice down to a single moment. The Worldwide Moment project aims to celebrate peace by photographers around the globe taking photographs simultaneously [...]

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Almost time for the Worldwide Photo Walk

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This Saturday (July 18th) marks the second annual Worldwide Photo Walk, with photowalks taking place in hundreds of cities around the globe. While there are contests and prizes associated with the photowalk, the real value can be in the networking and interaction with other photographers from a variety of backgrounds in your area. Most of [...]

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