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Talking of Photo-Blogs

A Blog on Photo Blogs The Aperture Photo Blog at Kamat.com is quite a hit with photo-blog enthusiasts. It does help that it's the top match in Google for its keywords. However, it is less of a blog on photography, and more of a blog on subjects of photography. The newest entry, for example, shows use of photographs to study the cultural anthropology of India. 220, 221. Whatever it takes Requirements of Photo-Blogging Software I am listing below what is required of a good software so that people can publish "push-button" photo-blogs. Ability to compute height and widths of images, as well as provide an alt-text title. Without them, the pictures will render poorly and when you hover the mouse over the picture you'll probably see "A picture named bob.gif". Ability to create stubs. If you work with lots of pictures, you know what a pain it is to create them. Ability to point to similar images based on keywords or categories. Now we are talking sophistication. More the meta data, the better. Some pictures look good with borders, and some without. The blogger (the person creating the entry) should be able to specify this. Ability to list pictures by reels, by dates (of photograph taken, or by photograph published) A PhotoCredit mechanism so the blogger can publish photographs not taken by self A watermarking mechanism to protect the images. Some Photo Blogs and Software they Use Uncommon sights of Chicago -- Pictures of the 'Windy City" (MovableType) Consumptive.org -- Visual treats galore (Blogger) Quarlo.com -- Pictures of New York City (none; coded by hand) Nilesh.org -- Old country meets new media (MovableType) Misc Links Photokity has a tutorial on how to create a Photo Blog using MovableType. PhotoBlogs.org is a long list of photo-blogs. Eaton's List of Blogs on Photography BTW, until last week, I didn't quite get the meaning of "MovableType". I had thought that it has something to do with fonts, type, and stuff. Then it occurred to me that movable-type would be the opposite of "stereo-type", which I thought is way cool. No? (Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!) First Written: Thursday, December 12, 2002 Last Modified: 12/12/2002 Tags: metablog

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