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Tammy Green » Archive for February 2008

Copyrighted sites using CC Share-alike Photography

I put all my Flickr photos under a Creative Commons license.  There aren’t many details about what that means, but here’s the gist: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. A lot of sites use my photography, and a fair number … Read entire article »

Filed under: Photography

Centralizing my distributed activity

Centralizing my distributed activity

I’m a little conflicted about the personal life aggregators services that have sprung up. Second Brain, Iminta, Friend Feed — each pulls from the various places where you create content (delicious, flickr, amazon wishlists, blogs, netflix queues, etc.) and feeds that content into one view that you then share with your network. It’s good to see all the activity in one spot, but it’s not good, too. I have some real concerns with having my various … Read entire article »

Filed under: Online Life

Battle of the Ethiopian Restaurants
Chicago Bites Podcast #97

Battle of the Ethiopian Restaurants <Br> Chicago Bites Podcast #97

On this week’s Chicago Bites, we pit Ethiopian Diamond against Demera Ethiopian Restaurant. While I enjoyed the food, I failed to understand some of the paintings or decor. This image in particular affected my digestion. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Dining in Chicago

Running a Flickr Campaign

Running a Flickr Campaign

Barack Obama has a Flickr account that is set-up, maintained, and contributed to by his campaign photographers. There are over 15,000 photos spanning a year’s worth of the campaign trail. What’s interesting to me isn’t the politics, but the fact that the photo sets seem more about the people supporting the candidate than the candidate himself. There are rally photos, snaps of behind the scenes, and candids of every day people. And dogs. It … Read entire article »

Filed under: Online Life

Friday needs a little orange

Filed under: Photography