So for those of you who are less familiar with Flickr, here is my introduction post on what it is. Flickr is a photo/video web service that was created in 2004 by Ludicorp. Though it may be similar to Facebook, many people ask why or how Flickr differs. This website gives some suggestions and idea of why you should use Flickr. It includes the following:
1. Flickr stores and displays your images at full resolution.
2. It includes basic photo-editing tools
3.There are a variety of communities and groups within Flickr
One of the interesting ways I found that people use Flickr as a tool to gather and store information through photos was through a community called World Breaking News. This group is basically a photojournalism group where people post personal photos or videos they have taken whether it be political, cultural, social photos which can then lead to discussion and links to articles.
And then something that has nothing to do with Flickr, but kind of. So I went to the Copyright forum today, and after listening to the discussions I though I would go and read some of the guidelines that Flickr has on their website that pertains to copyright and they basically warn to make sure you play nice by not stealing other peoples photos and videos.
thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting about Flickr. I have actually been using it quite a bit lately since I have been working on Stowaway Magazine. We have to search the commons to find public domain photos because a lot of the pictures we have are not high enough resolution. For each picture, we have to enter the copyright information and give attribution for the photos. It's nice that they have the little icons under the pictures that tell you exactly what rights they have reserved. That has helped the process move along considerably for me. Also, a cool website that I found is called photopin.com. This site collects photos from Flickr and other websites that you are free to use and adapt, then it has a link that takes you to the original site so that you can download the picture. I have procured many of my pictures from the site. You might want to check it out and see how it connects to Flickr and even expands some of its features.
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