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Protest in Happyland!

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:08:40 +0000

The other day, I was the witness of a demonstration in Happyland!

It all started with Mr. Crab who had something interesting to show:

And then people started to gather around him very quickly:

And he was soon surrounded by many people (moreover, Duplo’s came to the rescue):

Managing photos

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:22:42 +0000

I am still managing my photos based on directories named by date + event (e.g. “110515-person” contains photos from the person and taken today). I tried Shotwell, saw Picasa or iPhoto working but I was not really convinced. Maybe I like to be closer to the file structure (and it’s enough for my needs) and don’t like too much the idea of being dependent on a software and its internal database.

Now I know what happened

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:53:36 +0000

Nice photomontage by Philister involving one of my pictures on Flickr (no mention of license though!):

Original picture: Honey, I crashed your car!

Published in the Wall Street Journal

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:35:58 +0000

Scott Hensley used one of my pictures on Flickr to illustrate a recent article on the Wall Street JournalHealth Blog.

The interesting thing is that they give a link to the original photo (at the end of the article) and wrote a nice note on Flickr :-)

Published in Schmap

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:20:50 +0000

One of my photos on Flickr is now on Schmap, a website providing travel guides for some destinations in the world (only Europe, North America and Australasia for now). See here how it looks.

What was interesting for me was the way they did it. I came to know it via an e-mail from Emma Williams (from Schmap) telling me my photo was included. And, at first sight (*), they correctly understand the conditions of the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0](Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0): attribution is on their website, as well as the “cc” logo next to the image. And they link to the the image on Flickr :-)

Un-published in Nature (NRSC)

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:45:30 +0000

In the last post, I told you one of my photo on Flickr was published in an article from Nature Reports Stem Cells. After some discussions with three friends, I decided to write an e-mail to the journal editors basically stating that, although I enjoyed my photo being shown in their journal, they did not comply with one of the two conditions of the CC-by-sa license (the “Share-Alike” part, more details in the copy of my e-mail). I chose this licence for this photo because it is there to give freedom to other people on some material while this freedom stays with the media even if the latter is modified.

Published in Nature!

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:49:32 +0000

I was very pleased to see my first publication in Nature( 1), the scientific journal with an impact factor of 26! Well, it’s not really what you can expect (especially if you are one of my two mentors): one of my photos on Flickr, representing a rat eating (or praying?), was chosen to illustrate a summary of UK Academy of Medical Sciences report on animal-human chimeras :-)

Click on the thumbnail above to see the full screenshot

Online photos and privacy

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:00:43 +0000

Last week-end, I walked in the city center and posted some photos of sceneries and people on Flickr. It was the first time I posted photos of people I really don’t know (I already posted photos with people from parties where attendees want to see them online).

I recently read some articles ( 1, 2, 3) and blog posts about privacy and a new service from Google: Street view. I was then wondering if they are rules or regulations regarding online privacy for non-publishers (for online media).