There is something very puzzling about this whole Orphan works bill and what is implied. The gist of it says…
Category: IPTC
The choice is yours
If you are at CEPIC this week, in the lovely city of Dresden, Germany, here are few people you HAVE…
Unapologetic Friday
Here are a few of the most revolting persistent aspect of the photo Industry: – Blogs that get people fired…
Where is the Standard ?
There is no standard in photography captioning and metadata. That lossless group of taxonomist geeks who have been mismanaging the…
Future memories
Who owns the news ? The ongoing debate between news outlets ( AP, NYTimes..) and mash ups ( Google news..) …
Reflecting in the pool
“Copyright owners tend to focus on the aspect they see of piracy, which is the lost revenue. They therefore think…
It’s all about looking
Part of the reason text journalism is failing is mostly due to the laziness of its reporters. It seems that…
Image search VS Visual Search
Google is thinking about changing its Image search algorithm. Currently it has a convoluted way to return results. As you…
Orphan Work Bill – It’s good for our neighbors
Ever since I wrote the piece “orphan work is good for you”, I have been slammed with emails which all…
photography and farming
A new company emerged from unknown depth a few days ago, proposing free “automated” tagging, or keywording. Named Tagcow, the…
