Flickr: A Radical New Social Networking Paradigm for Photo Sharing

with Mike Baird. Saturday Oct. 24, 2-3:30pm.

Why share? "A photo taken but not shared might just as well have never been taken." Learning from others. Giving versus getting in a social networking context. Preserving your Intellectual Property rights (IP), copyrights. Creative Commons licensing. Getting your photos recognized, featured, popularized. Understanding the proprietary Flickr measure of "Interestingness." Using Groups and Pools. Getting and giving critique. Netiquette - how to be a good Flickr citizen. Cloud computing trend: processing, storing, and distributing your digital photos entirely online and independent of any personal computer. Photographer's rights to take and use photos. Perpetual image hosting - Flickr promises to never erase an image! What does that mean in terms of your legacy?

Photographer Michael "Mike" L. Baird is an avid and some say addicted Flickr user, having migrated most of his Internet photo presentation sites (bairdphotos.com, stealthispicture.com, digitalchocolate.org, BirdsOfMorroBay.com...) onto Flickr, which you can find via flickr.bairdphotos.com. Mike wants to infect you with his same interest. At Flickr, Mike hosts about 5000 Morro Bay-related images which have been viewed over two million times, averaging 4000 views a day. His "most interesting" images have each garnered 20,000 views and 400 comments, and appear in 60 groups, and some are linked to or purposed with attribution from up to 200 different external sites. Because of Flickr and the related Creative Commons revolution, hundreds of his images have now been used in educational settings including State Park, National Marine Sanctuary, National Estuary Program, etc. kiosks and displays, books, pamphlets, interpretive signs, rescue cards, Coast Guard murals, birding resource sites, etc.

In this presentation Mike hopes to get you excited about the possibility of projecting your photography further into the digital universe. Many of us do not realize it, but our legacy may well be represented by only those bits we leave behind on the Internet. In 500 years, what will Google and Flickr say about you?

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