George Washington’s Rules of Civility
To accompany the conversations I’ve been reading lately about legal uses of content found online, I’ve been reading about how to be civil and respectful, too, while participating online. I believe the...
View ArticleStrange Things Are Afoot At the Circle-C
As awareness of Pilfered Magazine’s diabolical position (regarding the copyright ownership of the work it distributes) continues to grow, I keep hearing of other websites that are flouting copyright...
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Goodbye Pilfered Magazine …
Here's how the site's home page looks on 2/8/10. and good riddance. Last week I wrote about Pilfered Magazine, as did a lot of others who were outraged at the site/magazine for publishing images...
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PicScout
I just learned about PicScout, a service for managing and tracking images online, and I’ve signed up to try it out and see what happens. As I see it, there are two main uses for the service. First,...
View ArticleData Validation
I know this is deadly boring, but did you know that your computer isn’t telling you if your pictures are being copied correctly and thoroughly? If you transfer files, including digital images, from...
View ArticleUpdate – PicScout Online Image Tracking Service
About 6 weeks ago I got started with the PicScout service for “fingerprinting” and tracking photos online (original blog post here). It seems to be working,though slowly, and I still have lots of...
View ArticleUpdate – Pilfered Magazine Goes The Way Of The Dodo – Mmminteresting.
(Update to previous items here and here.) Pilfered Magazine is gone. Hooray!
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Flickr Continues to Strip Exif Data – Plagiarism Today Testing Report
Good discussion here from Plagiarism Today about Flickr’s and Facebook’s part in the creation of orphan works. Knowing that Flickr and Facebook are stripping out all the data we as photographers load...
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My Submission for New York Times “A Moment In Time”
Photograph of paper receipt for groceries purchased at Devon Market in Chicago. Here’s the picture I ended up sending to the New York Times for the “Moment In Time” project. I posted about it recently...
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In Reference To Facebook’s Group “Millions Against Monsanto”
Millions Against Monsanto's logo and Monsanto's logo I just wrote a long response to an old friend on FaceBook, seeing that he had joined the “Millions Against Monsanto” group, and I thought I’d carry...
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“Image Maniac” Strikes Again on Craigslist
There’s a photographer in Chicago who’s getting pretty irritated. Today, for the second day in a row, (s)he has posted an exasperated response to a Craigslist ad looking to hire a photographer. The...
View ArticleArticle in Crains Chicago Business
Crains just published this article about me. Neat! http://detngr.com/CrainS It’s about how I use “apps” in my business.
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