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Photoblog, Bandwidth & Beer

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

If you happen over to my photoblog Take a Walk in my Shoes you might quickly realise there is only a single image, rather than archives with a monthly favourite. If you’ve been enjoying the format with large high quality images in archives, I can only apologise. Unfortunately the main issue is that I initially blew my hosting account bandwidth, so I doubled it, and I’ve pretty much used half of that again. So my 2000MB account bandwidth limit, which usually only consumes a fraction of that, seemed to blow out to about 2600MB this month. Last month it was a mere 300MB, up from about 130MB the month before. At the increase over last month’s statistics I’d say it’s a case of fix the leak now before January cuts me off at the financial bandwidth consuming knees.

A secondary reason is that Creative Commons licensing with a requirement for attribution and a non-commercial limitation is just that. The saying is free as in free to use non-commercially, not free as in beer. So I’m reticent to leave archives of particularly high quality images online for Google Images or other automated systems to dish out to all and sundry as free stock photography. No, it isn’t free. Not as in free beer. And if anyone has that impression then I apologise again. Sharing these images with people online, and saying that I don’t mind if you show people or stick them on your own tshirt or mash them up for fun, does not mean I forfeit copyright or moral rights on the images. It’s about sharing, not exploiting.

However, the large image size and clean format of Take a Walk in my Shoes proves to me that Flickr isn’t the option if you want to produce and present high quality photography (stock, commercial, art, whatever) into the online marketplace. I’m not known for my photography although I’ve been getting more heavily involved in it over the last year - more heavily than web development, for sure. But people like to see interesting and beautiful photography with low cognitive effort on their end. I know this because that’s how I like to view photography, and the statistics here confirm it. This is a potentially popular and fast growing photoblog.

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An icon for overweight middle aged bogun-geek web designers. A lego block in a Meccano world. A synergy of tattoos, memories of bare knuckle fist fights, and old episodes of Star Trek. My name is Steven Clark and I'm a highly opinionated web designer with a few good ideas. I'm too old for fist fights.

My Photography Blog

My photography blog Walk a Mile in my Shoes is back up and running. Due to bandwidth issues it's only one image at a time and not full text in the RSS feed. It's licensed under creative commons , meaning not for commercial use and you need to attribute, otherwise drop me a line via the contact form on this site.

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Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky (cover)

Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations has been on my bookshelf for the last few months literally screaming to be read. In fact, I'm wondering how I got so sidetracked to have reached the end of the year without having consumed it. The message of the book is an area of my own fascination, the effects that our new technologies have on the way we relate to each other, and how we're now empowered in ways that were historically unheard of (or not even conceived of) not too long ago.

I'm a small town boy who grew up in the seventies, graduating high school in 1979. The world was slower - how did we survive without Wikipedia? Without MSN or Facebook? Nowdays we have flashmobbing and blogging and constant connection.