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August 2006
Friday 25 August
  • PhotoShelter's New Wardrobe (12:45) - You might have noticed that PhotoShelter looks a little different. We recently redesigned the public side of the site based on a few (obvious) observations: Everyone has larger monitors than they did back in the mid 90s Vertical space is...
Monday 14 August
  • Citizen Journalist 2 (11:15) - I was too quick to chastize the use of Citizen Journalism. In fact, the New York Times has pointed out one very crucial niche -- paparazzi. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/technology/14pix.html I can't think of a more appropriate use of citizen journalism than paparazzi....
Wednesday 9 August
  • The Problem with Microstock (17:11) - The rise of microstock has been meteoric to say the least. For the uninitiated, microstock is cheap, royalty-free stock imagery. Instead of paying $200, you pay $1. In most models, you pay for an image based on size. $1 for...
Thursday 3 August
  • What’s That Smell? (21:46) - I received a tour of the Seattle Times photography department recently. I've always enjoyed seeing the insides of a newspaper office ever since I first walked into the small cramped offices of The Village Times (the local hometown weekly...
  • Preventing Trainwrecks (17:33) - We've received questions about the site outage that one of our competitors suffered in the past week. We thought that we would address some of the issues that were raised: What is a long term archiving solution? When people talk...
Wednesday 2 August
  • Citizen Journalist (14:55) - The proliferation of the Internet, cellphones, and the turning point of Sept. 11 have made Citizen Journalism more than the soup d'jour. Sept. 11 was allegedly the most photographed single news event in history -- captured by professionals and...