Tweet My friend and fellow blogger David Berkowitz wrote a great article 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 takes

Tweet 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,

Tweet There is an interesting article in the WSJ – Photojournalism for the Web Generation – that chronicles the work of MediaStorm, a new made-for-the-web content organization. MediaStorm’s site features an incredibly powerful video/photo portrait of a soldier in Iraq called The Marlboro Marine. Check it out. Here is another video/photo essay that MediaStorm did about the work of Reuters’ reporters in Iraq called Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War. The WSJ article makes a good analogy saying that MediaStorm aims to increase