Tuesday Quick Hits
- Over at the Community Journalism Interest Group blog, Bill Reader has an interesting rundown of what's happening with some of the latest J-Lab funded New Voices citizen journalism projects.
- Looking for the right archive picture? UPI has put 300,000 pictures online for licensing. It includes up-to-date stuff, too, and has both royalty free and rights-managed images. You need to create a membership to find out the prices. (From Research Buzz)
- If you aren't paying attention to search engine developments as a journalist, then you're likely to get blindsided sometime in the future (sorry, but as things move online, search engines become a huge gorilla you have to learn to deal with). Pandia, the metasearch engine, now has a search site dedicated to news about search engines. (Thanks again, Research Buzz). Pandia also has a very good tutorial on how to conduct searches and another on search engine optimization (hate to say it, but that's something probably every budding copy editor should be familiar with).
- And a third from Research Buzz. If you're into movies, Flixfind is compiling a list of all the movie-related sites on the Internet.
Labels: citizen journalism, editing tools, photos, reporting tools, search engines
posted by Doug @ 10:36 AM
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2 Comments:
So misleading...
"UPI has put 300,000 pictures online for licensing. It includes up-to-date stuff, too, and has both royalty free and rights-managed images."
First of all, you can get up to 300,000 images in a hurry, and still have no content, when you snap 20 photos of each starlet walking into the Grammies.
But more to the point...
I don't think there's a single royalty-free image on the site. All of my searches resulted in "0 matching photos found" - including my serch for 'a', which returned "68835 matching photos" - not one of which was royalty free.
Well, back to the free Creative Commons area on Flickr. They're better photos, anyways.
It appeared to me that you might not see see the royalty free stuff without a membership, and I'll admit to not having gone that far in a search. I did check, as you did, and came up only with rights managed. I guess I took them at their word when they have a search for "rights free" button. But maybe they were just dreaming ... or hoping.
I just put it in the mix as one more place people can check. You're right, though, I'd go first to the CC area on Fickr.
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