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Photoblog Revolution 181

Posted by michael from the worth-a-1000-words dept.
An anonymous reader writes "How about doing a story based on photoblogs? They're quickly becoming the next cool thing in the blog world. A photo a day - a visual diary. It would just be interesting, especially since you're interested in blogs and art. The links included are some of the more popular ones from database photoblogs.org."
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  • Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:23PM (#10704975)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • mo/photoblogging is NOT new! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by garcia ( 6573 ) * on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:23PM (#10704976)
    The *next* cool thing? Hiptop users have been photo/moblogging for years and there are several sites available just for hiptop users to blog to. I just recently bought a hiptop and even more recently received a camera for it. While I'm not necessarily into "blogging" I do enjoy posting random pictures of where I am for people to see. I sometimes post to one of the hiptop moblogging sites but I generally take pictures for my personal site.

    My "mobile gallery" is powered by Gallery and a simple bash script to import my photos from email attachments. I normally don't put captions on the pictures but sometimes I do. They are just usually there for me to remember something specific about the day or place I was. It's nice not to have to be carrying around my full sized digital camera and waiting till I get home to upload photos for friends/family/slashdotters to see.

    My mobile pics are here [lazylightning.org] and the entire photo album changelog is here [lazylightning.org] if you're interested. If your cell phone (or hiptop) has a camera and you'd like to use procmail and Gallery to host your own mobile pics the quick and dirty script to do so is here [lazylightning.org]. There are some requirements (munpack and galleryadd which are both linked to in the document listed above and obviously procmail).

    YMMV on what you need to install and whether you like how my photos are sorted ;-)

  • Next cool thing? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by 0-9a-f ( 445046 ) <drhex0x06@poztiv.com> on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:24PM (#10704980) Homepage
    I love how every pet project becomes the "next cool thing"...?

  • I Found Some Of Your Life (Score:3, Interesting)

    by fembots ( 753724 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:24PM (#10704983) Homepage
    It all begins with this [slashdot.org]? And now everybody wants his/her life found by others?

    These photoblogs with no text [sh1ft.org] are especially good because they don't impose a subjective opinion on a subject, and readers are free to interprete those photos.

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:25PM (#10704989)
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  • Exciting new pron technology (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Does anyone else see this coming to:
    SHOW US YOUR BOOBS!

  • Semi-dupe (Score:3, Informative)

    by andyrut ( 300890 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:25PM (#10704993) Homepage Journal
    Photoblogging, cell-phone blogging, "moblogging." Any word you call it, it's already been covered on Slashdot:

    http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/08/2034213.shtm l?tid=95 [slashdot.org]
    http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/23/2047233.shtm l?tid=149 [slashdot.org]
    http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/30/1619209.shtm l?tid=137 [slashdot.org]

  • www.andrewhodel.com (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    www.andrewhodel.com is my site, I guess it has been a "photoblog" for the last 2 years, ha

  • Lomography (Score:4, Interesting)

    by WarpFlyght ( 586558 ) <warpflyght@@@telltales...net> on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:26PM (#10705003) Homepage
    The subject of photoblogging reminds me quite a bit of "lomography," which has apparently taken off among certain circles. It gets its name from a Russian camera called the Lomo which is a consumer "point and shoot" camera with some unusual properties as far as quality goes.

    Anything and Everything [120seconds.com] is a good place to start checking out lomography.
    • The results I get out of my Kodak 3200 digital camera remind me a lot of Lomography...sort of a weird focus, you don't get a great preview out of the preview screen, everything on the preview screen moves in a weird slow-motion...in short, lots of randomness added to your photographic experience.

      This is not necessarily a bad thing. However, when you are trying to take pictures of a band or at an event like Comic-Con, it sucks, big time.

      However, I could see using the 3200 for the kind of arty photos you se
    • Great site! But Firefox didn't like it, I had to run IE to get it to work for me.
    • Unfortunately you need to be a talented graphic artist, photographer or designer to produce work of the quality of the Anything and Everything site. It's a bit like the way professional photographers used to demonstrate that they could take good pictures with a Kodak Brownie. Now if Google could develop an algorithm to rank photoblogs by artistic merit, that would be something useful.

      Yes, I know it's impossible/impracticable

    • WebMonkey has an introduction (thankfully Flash-free) to the related subject of "toy" cameras [wired.com].

  • Well, does this site [anu.edu.au] count as a photoblog?

    I didn't set it up with that label in mind but I suppose that's what it is. It's only natural to want to put photos to words or words to photos, the two mediums coexist quite nicely.

    Since storage and dare I say it bandwidth are cheap these days there's no reason (well apart from all the obvious ones, laziness :) etc... ) why not to have hundereds of photos a day!

  • The Next Big Thing (Score:4, Informative)

    by I_Love_Pocky! ( 751171 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:27PM (#10705020)
    Ok, why does everyone always have to do the same thing? Why are these "the next big thing?" The next big what?

    Seriously though, it is like everyone is just waiting for someone else to tell them what to do in life. Hey buddy you should start a "photoblog," because everyone else is.

    By the way, the term "blog" is so irritating. Is anyone else annoyed when they hear this term used? When I hear it I cringe just like when I used to hear "the information super-highway."
    • Why are these "the next big thing?" The next big what?

      The next big waste of time.

    • Agreed. How is it suddenly cool just to follow the crowd? I'll tell you how - it isn't! Blogs (ugh), photoblogs (yuck), and moblogs (barf) are substitutes for doing real stuff. They give the sensation of creativity and individuality without all the messy thinking and risk.

      None of this behavior would be so disturbing if so many didn't use the words and partake of these "memes" at-the-same-exact-time. This kind of group thinking conjurs up (for me) a group of hippies singing "Be Yourself" around a campf
      • It has always been cool, to a lot of people, to follow the crowd. Why else is GAP popular? It's cool to belong. No one likes the kid who just stands there screaming for attention, and that's just about as different and in your face as you can get. :)

        But I know what you mean - if everyone had creative ideas, and took them to fruition the world would be a lot more interesting.
    • Well, yah I cringe too. But I think that I cringe out of elitism, to be honest, because what I do isn't special any more. I've had a web page since optimizing for Mosaic was useful and have used a personal web site as an outlet for a long time. It used to be special to have a web site. I've published art, journals, photography, etc.

      But putting my own insecurity asside, I can see how blogging or photo blogging is important. It enables people to publish. Most people can't be bothered to learn about publishin

  • Next cool thing? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Quixote ( 154172 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:28PM (#10705028) Homepage Journal
    They're quickly becoming the next cool thing in the blog world

    Must be, since I've never heard of it....

  • Photologs (Score:2, Insightful)

    by wahgnube ( 557787 )
    of the picture-a-day kind a nice way to get you to go out and shoot a ton of pictures. I don't think there is a better way of actually learning to take half-decent pictures. I've run mine for just over two months now and it is not as easy as it seems.
    • Kudos on some very nice photos.
  • I don't think it's a bad idea, but its just not for me.

    On another note, someone might want to take a look at this: pi [1415926535...939937.org]
    don't be fooled by the domain itself!

  • The "next" cool thing in blogging? (Score:5, Funny)

    by stratjakt ( 596332 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:32PM (#10705059) Journal
    For there to be a "next" cool thing, there would have to have been a "first" cool thing.

    Since there has never been anything "cool" about your online diaries, I'm confused as to what this means.

  • http://moblog.umtstrial.co.uk/ [umtstrial.co.uk]

    Check out my holiday snaps. (Username Calum, obviously.)

  • Keeping it Free? (Score:3, Informative)

    by no soup for you ( 607826 ) <jesse.wolgamott@noSPaM.gmail.com> on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:36PM (#10705105) Homepage
    I know that most of us would rather host our own websites, but for the majority out there, they use Blogger or some other free site. The only problem I've found with them is that you can't upload pictures, which is where the whole photo-blog idea fits in. I say, use TinyPic [tinypic.com] just like tinyURL.com for whenever I need to add a photo to a blog entry. (like this one from a camera phone [blogspot.com]). Basically, you can upload a normal file-sized picture, and they'll host it.
  • I fotoblog becuz I cant spel or tipe.
  • www.adamraby.com/b/ started as a moblog, but I didn't like textamerica or my camera phone, so returned my phone got a sony cybershot and wrote my own photoblog like it?
  • For users of (Google's) Picasa "Hello" IM program, you can add "Bloggerbot" to your friends list, and then automatically send it photos from Picasa (a very nice photo management program) to be automatically published to your blog.

    http://supermodelpersonals.blogspot.com

    For example

  • I love photography but photoblogs bore me. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) * on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:40PM (#10705146)
    I love photography, and looking at photographs. But any urge I have to do so is usually far better served by looking at random images on PBase [pbase.com] rather than following any particular photo blog.

    Really, who travels anywhere interesting every day? The photos end up being kind of random but also kind of boring. I think probably what would be a lot more interesting would be a meta-photo-blog, that sorted through all the drek from photo blogs around the world and posted some of the most intersting stuff each day. I imagine there are already a few hundred such sites since there are no new ideas on the internet, I'd love to know of them if so. A google search didn't really get anything.
      • What was that about? Did you write that program or what? I can't see the point in that being a response to my question as it says nothing about aggregations of photoblogs.

        I apologize if you meant better, but honesty I don't know what you are trying to communicate.

        • The site is nothing to do with me.

          The interesting part is that individual photobloggers tag their pictures with keywords.

          You can then search on keywords to get a bunch of related pictures from different blogs. I admit there's no editorial control involved, but the results can be quite interesting. For example, Election2004 [flickr.com].

          Or try your own search [flickr.com].

          • Somehow I totally missed that angle looking at the site. Thanks for the clarification!

            That is very interesting, I'll have to try comparing that to google image search. it does seem more "picture" oriented...
    • But I have a stumble blog account I use to photoblog, I photoblog art/images from around the web that I like. I'd hate to bore someone with incidental images of my own (I'm no photographer!) but photo/image blogging can be fun (to do) and fun to view if you find someone with taste you find interesting.

      Mine in particular includes particularly racy pictures, so if you see my link and are at work/offended/etc don't click it.
    • Whoa. You have a serious lack of creativity. Do you think professional photographers run out to fabulously interesting locales everytime they need a good photo? Well, sometimes. But the best examples of photography are just as often a new take on the supremely common.

      While I understand that your point is mostly referring to the fact that most photo blogs are quite boring, that has nothing to do with the fact that they shoot everyday things. Exotic locale doesn't equal interesting photos, and vice ve
      • It's true that common things can provide great pictures. But looking at anyones photos day to day can get wearing, even if they are a master of composition.

        That's why I have trouble imagining anything but a highly nomadic audience for any given photo blog.

        I guess it's more the "picture of the day" kind of galleries I'm thinking of. More sporadic output can also be more interesting. For instance there's a blog [foveonx3.org] from a soldier in Iraq that just started up, which is interesting as he has some really nice i
  • The availability of bandwidth and digital cameras realy will take the Internet medium downstream. I mean, how many people actually like to spend their weekends reading? Versus watching movies?

    I started working on a photo site where you can merge photos and put them on mugs and stuff at YouArt [youart.net] and the number one thing that has impressed me is people immediately say "cool". People just like pictures. In the past people say "like what does that site do" but with pictures it is obvious.

    I guess everyone
  • for us all to post our photoblogs right?

    whatmycatshavekilled.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]

  • naked chicks (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I've always wanted a bumper sticker that says "nobody reads your blog".

    Truth is, I don't need to read about you and your life or opinions. I don't care if you like Buffy the vampire slayer. I don't care if you like linux.

    It's kind of like those photocopied newsletters some families send you in their christmas cards with a summary of what everyone is doing. I don't care if little jimmy is taking tennis lessons.

    Therefore: unless your photo blog has naked chicks in it, it will be just as pointless.

  • The New Next Thing (Score:4, Insightful)

    by pez ( 54 ) * on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @06:54PM (#10705290) Journal
    Blogging isn't new. Photoblogging isn't new either. What is new is a site called Multiply [multiply.com] which is a convergence of digital content publishing and management, and the "six degrees of separation" of sites like Orkut and Friendster (heck you can even import your Orkut contacts if you want).

    How many of you maintain a blog that nobody reads? As someone most cleverly put it, most blogs are "the sound of one hand clapping." But because of the integration of social networking, the people that will read your blog on Multiply are your roommate's sister, your friend's cousin, and your buddy's brother -- people like that. Of course there are tools to control access as well, so if you want to publish something just for your contacts (or even a subset of that), you can do that too.

    Similarly if you are a photographer, the photo printing sites like Shutterfly and oFoto almost go out of their way to make it painful to share your photos on-line (you see, they only make money if you print them, and if you share them on-line you might not need to). With Multiply on the other hand sharing your photos is as simple as a few clicks. When I uploaded pics of my halloween party, for instance, over 200 of my friends (and their friends) read it within a day of me posting. Now *that* is cool.

    Finally, if you're a lurker, there's no better place... you get to see what's going on with everyone in your network, and get to see things you never would have otherwise. One of my friends has a cousin stationed in Iraq who posted pictures of Sadam's palace -- unbelievable! And I never would have seen them if it wasn't for the connection on Multiply. That's only one example out of dozens and dozens.

    Try it out... you won't be disappointed.

    MASSIVE DISCLAIMER: I'm one of the founders of Multiply. That doesn't mean I think it's any less cool though! ;-)

    Check out my Multiply site [multiply.com] for an example of what you can do.

  • Text in case of Slashdotting... (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Error

    Slashdot! [slashdot.org]

  • Flickr, flickr, flickr (Score:4, Informative)

    by nzgeek ( 232346 ) * on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @07:03PM (#10705388) Homepage Journal
    There is only one way to photoblog these days, and that way is flickr.com.

    Flickr is sooo far ahead of any other photo/mobile blog out there, that it is just not funny.

    Try it, you'll love it.
    • Wouldnt a photoblog be a phlog?
  • is what makes photo blogging kool...

    [radio uruguay] [dgoutnik.net]
  • I installed a small photoblog on my friend's site: RockWell [rockwellclothing.com]. It has somewhat become an obituary for all the recent deaths in his home country (NL). First Andre Hazes [rockwellclothing.com] and then today's brutal murder of Theo van Gogh [rockwellclothing.com].
  • Those interested in photoblogging might be interested in photo.net's "no words" forums: http://www.photo.net/bboard/forum?topic_id=1801 [photo.net]

  • Photo blogging is already Boring...

    Check out my Video Blog - WAY more interesting...

    http://www.m3blog.com [m3blog.com]

    Now, if only we could get a really good streaming, universal video codec!!! (dirac [bbc.co.uk], perhaps?)

  • Something that's bugged me about the blogging scene is how self-important certain parts of it seem to be. Some of the more prominent blogs/newslogs seem to be story after story, self-congratulatory pieces about how exciting and important blogging is ("Wow, look! We're important!") and for some reason that attitudes drives me nuts. Because... well... yeah, in some respect blogging and "the voice of the people" and so on is important, although not nearly so much as they'd like to have us believe sometimes. Es
  • MirrorDot [mirrordot.com] has mirrors of all of the linked pages, images, etc...
  • There's also community photoblogs on sites such as LiveJournal such as the Photography Community [livejournal.com] and the Photojournal Community [livejournal.com].

  • The next cool thing? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by IronChef ( 164482 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @07:32PM (#10705661)
    The next cool thing in the blog world is pretty damn far from the next cool thing in general.

    Blogs suck, and I can say that with authority since I have one. At least I don't delude myself into thinking anyone wants to look at it. Hell, I don't even want to.
  • This is a pretty cool site - http://tenyearsofmylife.com/ [tenyearsofmylife.com]. From the About the Project [tenyearsofmylife.com] page:

    Back in 2000, I started a feature on my personal blog where I tried to take a photo everyday. At the time, it was mostly done to force myself to learn more about photography -- including basics like framing, lighting, etc. It was also a great way to record memories of that year as they happened. I kept it up on a near-daily basis for about nine months total and in that time I captured a lot of changes. I switched j

  • I remember the first photoblog I went to was one from an american living in Japan. It has been amazing watching his photography improve. Check it out at http://www.sushicam.com [sushicam.com]
  • It's called bikini a day (via email)

    s/bikini/nude/
    s/nude/pr0n/

  • Sometimes amazing... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by sw155kn1f3 ( 600118 ) on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @07:40PM (#10705734)
    Look at this guy's site: johnstonefitness.com [johnstonefitness.com].
    He was overweight, pale and ill (as I am right now). He had balls to change himself and recorded progress every month, you literally can watch him leaning, bulking... Pretty cool.
  • I started 30yearproject.com [30yearproject.com] the day I turned 30, September last year. I planned on it being a photoblog, a photo a day.

    It sort of worked, but decided it just wasn't interesting enough when I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary.

    Then again, when I spent four months in Zimbabwe this year, putting up a photo each day was difficult, but people were in fact interested to see what the world looked like 'down there'.

    It has to be said, a full months' worth of pictures does look nice [babakfakhamzadeh.com], but I've gone ba

  • I don't know how new or groundbreaking photoblogs are for readers, but as a working professional photographer I find mine to be a valuable venue to try out experiments, or show personal work (in my case, really personal work), or just air pieces that I've done that clients might be too timid to publish. I think, just as "normal" blogs, they're probably an intermediate evolution in the publishing paradigm, a transition from editor-mediated publishing to a direct creator-consumer relationship. At the very lea
  • Bruce Brace has been doing this forever with his 12hr ISBN-JPEG project, in fact the 10th anniversay is December 30th. He's been posting a photo to alt.12hr, alt.binaries.pictures.12hr, alt.binaries.pictures.misc, alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc every 12 hours since 1994. Here's a link to more info [massivechange.com].

    The project has all sorts of different kind of photographs, the last time I was keeping track of it it was all black and white, most of it was very subjective, pictures of people, pictures of things, then
  • Seriously. I have taken 13000 photographs on my digital SLR (Canon 10D) and I've kept every single one of them.

    How many make it to the light of day for friends? Maybe 3000 - events, etc, where they want to see every shot.

    How many make it to prints? Maybe 300.

    How many make it to the wall? So far 0, but I have 3 picked out.

    A visual diary.... yeah, old news. Art Wolfe did that a long time ago, with Film. And that was 1 EXPOSURE per day.
  • I photo blog with my Nokia 3650. Unfortunately, the time the image was taken is not stored in the (non existant) exif headers, so sometimes the story is out of order. Check out my mobog posts [mobog.com] and my personal posts [zhrodague.net] for examples. Not quite a literary thing, but hey -- a picture tells a thousand words.
  • Yes , if you think you're really interesting and lead a fascinating life but until now no one has ever believed you, heres your chance to put it to the masses. Modesty be damned, your trip to the toilet really IS something to be noted for posterity, that cup of coffee you just made WAS a masterpiece , and that dog of yours COULD easily be the next Lassie.

    So , if you're so full of your own self importance that you think it should've been you in the election run this month, then start a photo block!
  • Over at deviantART [deviantart.com] there is a regular stream of reports of 'ripping' - taking someone else's photos and passing them off as your own - in the forums and elsewhere. It's not just amateur photographers who are finding their work being ripped, a lot of professional photographers are being targetted as well. Unfortunately, the culprits are hard to trace down, and the sites that host them are often slow to take action, if they even bother. The only solution, it seems, is to put a large, visible watermark on your

  • Going digital is the great equalizer. Making content digital means you can make perfect reproductions with no loss of data. Just as music and movies have been stolen by digital pirates, so too will be the fate for digital photographs. In today's materialistic society where self worth is measured by the make and model of our cars, capability of our televisions, age of our clothing, expense of our home, and where our children see it is more important to receive rather than to give; there is no compulsion t

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