Joe Kutchera

My friend and fellow blogger David Berkowitz wrote a great article on MediaPost about how Flickr users can optimize their photos for search, connect to friends and fellow bloggers and how allowing one’s photos to be used across the web under Creative Commons will drive SEO for your site.  Great points. This reminded me of my recent post about Creative Commons and an insightful comment I received from Mark Sebastian who shares his photos using CC.  Remember, this scares a lot of photographers because it

Recently, an architectural firm in SF contacted me about using this photo of mine from Flickr: View from the Miyako Hotel in Japantown. Initially, I was really excited. Cool! Someone is willing to pay for a high-res version of my photo. Then, after sleeping on it, I realized…wait, who ISN’T paying for my photos? This of course scared me. I checked the license that I had established on my flickr account as well as the sharing capabilities on my account settings. At the time, my

When my brother, Andrew, and I were in Madrid, sitting in front of the Reina Sofia Museum, two young women sat down next to us. As they were preparing some signs to put up nearby, they were laughing. What were they doing I asked in Spanish? Looking for a job they told me, using the following flyers with tabs that had a URL on YouTube since there were a number of advertising agencies in the neighborhood. Evidently, Seth Godin’s blog post about “why bother having