ego-stroking
I got a FlickrMail from Schmap the other day, telling me that four of my San Francisco photos (including this one) had been shortlisted for possible inclusion into their upcoming San Francisco city guide.
It surprised me, because the photos in question weren’t my best, but I suppose my better SF photos were of locations that get photographed a lot.
Their process is pretty cool- in addition to user-submitted photos, they search Flickr’s Creative Commons pool for CC-licensed photos, and then send FlickrMail to all the users whose photos are shortlisted. The message contains a link to a page where the photographer can grant or deny permission on an individual photo basis, view a sample page that explains how the photo credit will appear, and download a preview version of the city guide.
Unfortunately, their guide viewer only works on Windows, which is annoying. But nonetheless, the whole enterprise strikes me as a cool way to take advantage of Flickr’s service as well as all the interesting content out there that people are just giving away.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:24 am
They contacted me too, actually, but I am considering not doing it if they don’t release a Mac version.
Cause I’m a software nazi like that.
February 24th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Hah. That occurred to me too, actually.
February 25th, 2006 at 1:07 am
both cool and disheartening. Nice pic, btw.
although I don’t have mac, linux usually has similar frustrations… It would be funny if a user were on windows and had the opposite frustration however…
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:05 pm
all the interesting content out there that people are just giving away.
Hmm…I’ll keep mine private