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[fresh + new(er)] But in saying that I think that many institutions are addressing these issues now due to projects like Flickr Commons, CC licensing and Wikimedia and this has resulted in the education of staff and the changing of policies, look at what the Brooklyn Museum has just achieved with their copyright project. We too are implementing our Open Access image repository that is part of our Strategic Plan, something that we have been able to change at management level due to our work with Flickr Commons.

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[Witty's Blog] Flickr Commons is Full | Witty's Blog: The most obvious difference between Flickr and Wikimedia Commons is that Flickr is a website for photographs to be seen in-and-of-themselves whereas on Wikimedia the images are (at least ostensibly) intended to be used in an .

[Uploads from HarmonyArtMom] Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent Wikimedia Commons: HarmonyArtMom posted a photo: Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Sargent Wikimedia Commons.

[Sam Wilson's Journal] Sam Wilson's Journal » Cantonment Hill and Wikimedia Commons: I have always felt that Commons only wants files that are of direct use in another project ”” mainly Wikipedia ”” and that unless one can think of a good reason to upload a file, that file should be posted elsewhere. Such as Flickr Commons, or the Internet Archive;

[Uploads from HarmonyArtMom] Caspar_David_Friedrich Der Watzmann Wikimedia Commons: HarmonyArtMom posted a photo: Caspar_David_Friedrich Der Watzmann Wikimedia Commons.

[LibraryTechNZ] Conversations about the Commons: Which then leads to ignorance - I thought the Wikimedia Commons was just a data store for images editors were putting in Wikipedia entries, I didn't realise it offered other benefits. I think it is supposed to be thought of as separate to Wikipedia, except GLAMs would prefer an integrated solution across all Wikimedia's products.

[Uploads from HarmonyArtMom] Sargent_Madame_Paul_Poirson Wikimedia Commons: HarmonyArtMom posted a photo: Sargent_Madame_Paul_Poirson Wikimedia Commons.

[David Shankbone] Sarah Palin and Retarded | David Shankbone: She opens the introduction praising Reagan’s son, a talk radio guy, for his willingness “to screw the political correctness that some would expect him to try to adhere to.”

[Comments for indicommons] indicommons» Blog Archive » The Commons: Vital, virile, virtual ...: I’m very excited to see the new content that will be added to The Commons this year, from both the current institutions and the new ones that are, as you read this, signing contracts and setting up their accounts. My prediction is that 2010 will blow the doors off The Commons so long as people peruse the content, institutions continue uploading and promoting the content, and developers build cool toys that add new dimensions to the content.

[MF's posterous] Three things that annoy me about some Flickr's users - M F's posterous: First scenario is people that choose the All rights reserved option, write in capital letters that they do not want their photos to be used in any way without their permission and then they leave the option "Blog this". How are they going to react is someone puts one of their photos on their blogs?

[Guillaume Paumier's weblog] Help us collect good ideas to improve Wikimedia Commons: Since our goal is to make Wikimedia Commons more usable, we want to look at other media sharing platforms, such as Flickr, Youtube, Fotopedia, Picasa web, Panoramio, etc. I would like to ask for your help to accomplish this research.

[Latest Activity on Museum 3.0] Museums and Wikipedia - Museum 3.0: These constraints also mean extra time in post production to try to clean up reflections, since objects are shot in situ usually behind glass, remove distracting backgrounds or body parts of other visitors. Because the images are taken in such low light, a conscientious photographer will try to reduce noise that invariably is introduced even by special high ISO cameras and improve the sharpness and clarity as much as possible since the depth of field is usually quite shallow because of the low light conditions.

[Witty's Blog] Low-Hanging GLAM fruit | Witty's Blog: Go to Wikimedia Commons (the multimedia repository associated with Wikipedia) and create a user account. Technically, Wikimedia policy says you're not supposed to have “role accounts” (usernames associated with an organisation rather than an individual).

[Julia's Blog] Photography project: Besides recording the moment (my favourite  sort of photography), I also have plans for themed weeks. However, to date, the only days I have made plans, I have actually found good images purely by chance.

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