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Flatbed scanner photography forums February 16, 2007

Posted by Andy Roberts in : Art, Flickr , 4comments

Posted by Vincent de Groot to the Scanned Objects Flickr goup forum yesterday, a link to his article on flatbed scanner photography.

The article is a good one, as an introduction to the concept of scanner photography, but it does become specific to one particular piece of scanner software, called VueScan. Also it makes no mention at all of the same Flickr group where over 1,600 examples of scanned objects can be browsed by tag, contributed by 417 members, founded on 1/1/2005. Instead there are 4 links to his own PHPbb forum, so I might have to sign up there and post a reciprocal advert, or not bother. I see this kind of promoting of other forums happening quite a bit on other groups as well so let me throw out the question:

Are established flickr groups, or any other forum with a substantial membership, considered fair game for trying to recruit members from? Would the use of the word “poaching” be too emotive a description for such activity?

I opened my Mac mini February 2, 2007

Posted by Andy Roberts in : Flickr, UK, tools , add a comment

I sent off to crucial/uk for a new larger memory card for my mac mini, because purchasing additional RAM is usually an economical upgrade for any computer, improving perfomance much more effectively than any system software tweaking. I didnt use a large kitchen knife like this illustration though, oh no. I had the officially Apple approved wallpaper scraper.

photo by Bruno D Rodrigues, link to Apple Dissassembling Pool on Flickr

MOO November 26, 2006

Posted by Andy Roberts in : Flickr , 6comments

My ten free MOO cards arrived last month, I took them to Italy and back, and then I put them down somewhere very safe, except I can’t remember where it was.
Now I need to find them again in time for Wednesday.
Curses.
I’ll need to order two batches of 100 as well, for different purposes.

Flickr Groups - Is there really a community? September 28, 2006

Posted by Andy Roberts in : Community, Flickr , add a comment

From a public discussion in one of the meta groups in Flickr.com

Flickr: FlickrCentral
Flickr Groups - Is there really a community?

Some interesting quotes:

Yolise:

Who says every group has to be a community anyway?

Andreas Helke:

“There are more than 100,000 groups on flickr.I would wish it where lot less. But the current reality is a very fragmented and cryptic group system. As a result I am a member of 900 of them and administrator or coadministrator of 60 groups”

Violentz:

To me the Flickr “community” are my own contacts and friends who comment on my photos and me on theirs.

shhexycorin:

Some groups are communities, some groups places where people go to look at pictures, some groups are utterly pointless. A lot of them are all 3.

iansand:

flickr is the community, not the groups. Groups add something to the community. There are other things that go into the mix.

Noël Lee:

It’s interesting to read this discussion on community because my closest friend and I were just saying yesterday that what makes flickr so addictive is not the photos but the world-wide community.

Frankie Roberto - Citizen journalist January 22, 2006

Posted by Andy Roberts in : london bloggers, social media, wildlife, internet, Flickr, London , comments closed

“All in all, a good few days for citizen journalism, if not so great for the whale.”

So concludes a lengthy blog from Frankie Roberto who has taken a big interest in citizen journalism and wikinews recently. No doubt he has his reasons for doing so.

frankie roberto blog - Citizen journalists report on the London whale

photo by Mr Jaded