Margaret Boyd, Picasa, Gmail, and flickr, Oh My!

Margaret Boyd,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

Assignment #6 More Flickr Fun

Oh boy! Picasa, Gmail, and flickr all working together! I found a post that explained how to send your photos from Picasa to flickr by emailing the images within Picasa using its Email button. It just so happened that I used my Gmail account to do it, but I had a choice of using my work account. Whatever is in the body of the email serves as the flickr tags, while the title of the email serves as the image title.

Margaret Boyd was the first female graduate of Ohio University, in 1873. Photo courtesy Boyd Family Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio

This image, though I'm guessing at the date of creation, is old enough to be teetering on the brink of being in the Public Domain. Since we don't know who took the photo it would fall into the category of unpublished anonymous and pseudonymous works or work made for hire (corporate authorship). In this category works are under copyright for 120 years from date of creation, so only works created before 1887 are in the Public Domain (in 2007). If we knew the creator of the photo, it would fall into the category of unpublished work which remains under copyright for the life of the author + 70 years--only works from authors who died before 1937 are in the Public Domain (in 2007). As you might now guess, unpublished works have a different schedule for entering the Public Domain. A wonderful reference on this is Peter Hirtle's page. Note that although I'm treating the image as PD, I'm still crediting/citing the repository.

Dori from flickr to You

Dori,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

So now I'm experimenting with posting my images from flickr to Blogger. It's fairly easy too, but as flickr is not a Google product it took a couple of extra steps more than my Picasa to Blogger posting.

This is my youngest Dane, Dori.

Picasa and Blogger

This is an experiment to see how the Picasa/Blogger interface works. Picasa is the Google desktop image management and Web sharing application. I use Picasa everyday to manage and search for my images both at home and at work.

At work I use Picasa to work with large numbers of images kept on the file server. At home I use it for images of the items I sell on eBay as a representative of the Great Dane Rescue. (You may say why not just use the thumbnail feature in Windows Explorer, but most of my images are large high res ones and the Windows "solution" doesn't work for them.)

Anyway, I found the Picasa/Blogger interface to work well and was quite easy! From Picasa select an image then just click on the Blogger button! After a log in screen it puts you right into Blogger and there you select which blog to add the image to, then compose the post.

Here's a photo I really like of my partner Dale and his dog Gidget sitting on our front steps in autumn 2005. Unfortunately Gidget is no longer with us.

flickr-ed

Assignment #5 Discover Flickr

Yes, I've finally been flickr-ed. So far I just have a few images of my pets up. I don't own a working camera or camera phone so I'm not "ate up" with digital images of my own.