Dec 14 2007

New stats package for Flickr Pro

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Flickr have just released a stats package for Flickr Pro subscribers, and it’s quite awesome. It shows trends of visitors and commenting activity, as well as top photos, and referrers. I wouldn’t have thought that this photo would have been our top-viewed, but it’s the one we used when we sold that car, so it […]

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Aug 12 2007

Schmap just got a little bit better

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Schmap the online travel-guide website just got a little better… That’s because they’ve included two of my photos in their guide to the ‘Western Suburbs’ of Wellington. I’m not too sure that Hawkins Hill should be classified as being part of the Western Suburbs but it does border on the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary so perhaps […]

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Aug 10 2007

Schmap – Dynamic Travel Guides

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It’s not the first time I’ve been published internationaly, but this is kinda cool! Hi Stuart, I am writing to let you know that two of your photos with a Creative Commons license have been short-listed for inclusion in the third edition of our Schmap Wellington Guide, to be published mid-August 2007. www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=95555995N00/c=SE51022406 Clicking this […]

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Aug 10 2007

Word of the day: Steampunk

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From Wikipedia: Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction […]

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Aug 02 2007

Wellington bloggers meetup

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As Wanda Martha just mentioned, last night we had the first meetup of the Wellington Bloggers Facebook group (or the catchy ‘WBFG‘ for short) at the Southern Cross bar. It was great fun and quite surreal meeting bloggers in real life for the first time – especially as we already knew so too much about […]

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Apr 20 2007

Heart breaking

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Pulitzer prize winning photos in the Feature Photography section: Awarded to Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee for her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer.

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Jul 11 2006

Keep an eye on my Yahoo Travel site

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I came across this link from the GigaOM site this morning with details on Yahoo’s new travel site. I’ve seen a couple of these sites before but as this integrates nicely with my Flickr account, I’m quite looking forward to making use of it on my upcoming trip to London and Amsterdam. So I’ve set […]

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May 31 2006

fivepointsix – New Zealand photo sharing site

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I stumbled across this site recently via Tim Haines’s blog – fivepointsix.co.nz is a new photo sharing site based in New Zealand. I’m always interested in local offerings of services that are usually only available overseas – Zoomin is another good example of a great NZ site. I’m not too sure about the fivepointsix site […]

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