Early birds to the multimedia training offered by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.
I am working with PNA over a fortnight doing on-site consults in newsrooms around the state as well as a few events like this one day multimedia journalism training seminar at PNA headquarters in Harrisburg..
Students used the PNA Ning site to give everyone a common blogging platform and I posted a couple examples here on my blog as a warm up demonstration.
Below is an iPhone photo that was e-mailed to Flickr, tagged up and edited and then cross-posted and blogged on many platforms.
Two version of embedding slideshow players.
Number one - The Ning player:
Number Two - Flickr
At the multimedia workshop, you had us sign up for Flickr. So I thought you might be interested in this story by a friend of mine, Wendy Grossman, who wrote about people taking other people’s photos from Flickr and selling them as their own:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/18/news.internet
Unfortunately, there’s no reliable marking for photos. How does the media (or, for that matter, any photographer) profit from traffic on the web when others divert that traffic?
I understand the desire to link and quote and do mashups and other manipulation of media. But I am also concerned about intellectual property rights.
I also read that story yesterday, it was linked to in my daily reading list.
Yep, there are precautions and common sense steps for journalists and publishers to take. For example - there is no practical Web need to upload images larger than 500 pixels wide. That precaution speeds up your uploads and also ensures that copies of these lo-res files will produce unsatisfactory enlargements.
The other thing to do for a publisher account is to use the privacy settings to take the photos out of public and search engine view. You can do that on Flickr and still produce the richly annotated slideshows I taught you how to create.