Comments on: 365 Photos/Rewind/Connect/Again

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:55:24 +0000

Yes, spammer, there *is* certainly something up your end. I suggest inserting it farther.

By: I am a Dumb Shit Spammer

I am a Dumb Shit Spammer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:21:57 +0000

Great site, exactly what I was looking for, I can’t get your RSS feed to work right in google chrome though, is it on my end?

By: Learning Aloud - A commitment to 365 days and at least 365 pictures

Learning Aloud - A commitment to 365 days and at least 365 pictures — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:50:25 +0000

[...] must be some interesting educational versions (e.g., Middle School Matrix, CogDogBlog). Perhaps a photograph from each school day. Seems like this is a little different than a [...]

By: leigh

leigh — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:25:25 +0000

DVD’s a good idea. I think I’ll do that. We’ve printed a few books out of Flickr. Pricey, but makes a nice book too cheer up with from time to time. In the time I’ve had a Flickr account, I’ve killed 3 hard drives. I find my own computers to be the most unreliable thing in all this. Also, the past 2 years, almost all my uploads are direct from mobile phone. I know its unwise, but its just a reality for me. I try to pretty “buddhist” about it all. The rel photos I care about are in my head, printed, on my blog, on flickr and now picasa web..

Anyway, I liked the 365 and Mike’s testimony. Thinking to join in, but load to Picasa ;)

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:42:19 +0000

I hear your pain for lack of a download, and cant really speak for flickr– I’d imagine your photos are spread all over a farm of servers, not sitting in a folder with your name on it; but that probably does not help you.

For me, 25 clams a year is worth unlimited storage, and yeah, you might say Picassa gives that for free. What I have been doing this year, in switching to Aperture for management of my photos, is making sure that I maintain my own archive, not relying solely on the external web sites (this is ignoring the 4 previous years of photos sitting on a pile of CDs in a box in my closet).

A few times over my flickr time I ordered the backup on DVD, yeah it costs again, but I have a full archive sitting there. I never tried the downloaders and can only manage the horror of trying to do ‘em by hand.

We have different outlooks- photography for me is a serious hobby I pour a fair amount of time and money into, so paying for the service is not a big deal. I can understand wanting more from a free service, but there is always a cost of some sorts somewhere.

I hope you find a way to get your archives out of flickr.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:36:53 +0000

Leigh, it's not safe/sane to treat any third party service as the primary source, or primary backup, for your photos (if they mean anything to you). Flickr could implode tonight, and I wouldn't lose any photos. Same with MobileMe/.Mac or any of the other places I post stuff. Everything (EVERYTHING) that I care about exists first and foremost in my own photo library, on my own computer, with my own backups (as redundant as possible). Trusting anyone else with anything you really care about is likely to cause pain and/or friction and/or unnecessary expense. Flickr (and Google Picasa Albums, and SmugMug, and any other third party service) is only safely treated as an expendable sharing service, rather than anything more important or permanent. One day, it will crumble. It's not going to take any photos I care about down with it. With that said, I have had to resort to Flickr once in an emergency, when I accidentally nuked an Aperture project before an automated backup could be run. IIRC, I used Flickr Backup (now Flickr Edit) to do the job, and it worked great).

By: Leigh Blackall

Leigh Blackall — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:55:16 +0000

But Cog, something in me is really starting to resent Flickr. I have 4 years of pro account there, and every year they send me a bill in January, after all the Christmas and new year spending, and every year I grown and wish I was more savvey at keeping free Flickr, like adding your photos to groups to get around the monthly limitations..

And now, I’m finding PicasaWeb easier to use, and I want to drag down all my Flickr photos and make a backup there. But Flickr doesn’t give me an option to download what is mine – paid for and all! So now I’m dragging my arse through a variety of crappy 3rd party downloaders and so far non of them are working..

The community in Flickr is great. Like all the social media services Youtube, Twitter and Flickr are all pretty crappy – but the community make up for it.. I just wish we could get both. Good software, good services and good community.

If flickr facilitated an easy month by month download zip, I’d be happy and would probably feel more comfortable about paying my annual pro fee…

By: Michelle Dyer-Hurdon

Michelle Dyer-Hurdon — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:29:31 +0000

Great post! Thanks are in order, because it was through your blog last year that I learned about the 365 project. It was a great experience and I’m definitely back for 2010. Maybe I’ll even make the full 365, but if not, it is still worth every shot!

By: OogieM

OogieM — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:11:44 +0000

You’ve inspired me to try to shoot a picture every day. Not sure I’ll post them, but I will be joining in and maybe make a scrapbook of them next year.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:54:23 +0000

Alan, Evan and I just watched the entire 2009/365photos slideshow. Great stuff! I’m exhausted just seeing the locations you traveled to last year! :-)

I’ve been loving the @dailyshoot project as well – there’s something about being given an assignment to help me find something interesting. Boundaries and constraints help creativity. Go figure.

It’s been fun watching the 365photos group – it’s definitely taken on a life of its own. Nobody “runs” the group. It’s self-organized, self-directed, and active. Nobody could have set out to plan such a thing. It wouldn’t have worked.

I’ll be doing 2010, too. Can’t imagine not doing the project now…