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Our 3yo Prefers Jacob Riis to Berenice Abbott
Today I took our 3.5 year old son Oliver to the Museum of the City of New York (Greg is back in Savannah, but we’re staying on a week longer.) After viewing the toy collection, we spent a few moments in New York Through the Lens: Photographs From the Permanent Collection, which is on display ...Read more.
Tax Time
There is a great post up on Photoshelter’s blog
Oops, we may have registered copyright the wrong way.
I recently attended a lecture by intellectual property attorneys Matt Henderson and Shawn Kachmar, and picked up an interesting tidbit about registering groups of photos.
iPad won’t run Flash, but Adobe has a work-around
I was reading the media response to the iPad launch, and caught that, like the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the iPad will also not support Flash. Like many (most?) photography studios, we use Flash to present Greg’s online portfolios. I’ve had serious reservations about this for some time, because it’s not SEO-friendly. And frankly, ...Read more.
Shout-out to photojournalists on the ground in Haiti
I’ve been heartened by the donations that are pouring into Haiti from everyone I know, and I believe that it is the images, more than the words, that tear at our heartstrings and compel us to help in any way we can.
The Decline of Journalism Continues
James Rainey’s January 6th LA Times piece about the plight of the freelance journalist, “Freelance Writing’s Unfortunate New Model,” is worth a read, if you can handle a little more depressing news about the news. Among the highlights: – “An estimated 31,000 writers, editors and others have been jettisoned by newspapers in just the last ...Read more.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you need a model release for this one
In case you missed it, outerwear company Weatherproof has put up a billboard in Times Square with an AP image of President Obama wearing one of their coats. I expect it will be down soon, but I was interested in this quote from a company rep in the
Using Google to Sell Stock or Fine Art Prints?
In my never-ending quest to increase the Google Rank of Greg’s photography business, I’ve started trying to use all of Google’s products, on the theory that they all link to each other. That’s a long post for another time, but today it led me to this: Google Base and Google Merchant Center. At first glance ...Read more.
PDN Not Sold
Nielsen Business Media, which owns a load of trade publications in addition to PDN, from the fairly well-known (AdWeek) to the true niche (National Jeweler Magazine) has been trying to sell a bunch of its magazines and their related trade shows for months. PDN was on the block, but was not included in the final ...Read more.
