All Narfed Up words (and some photography pre-2010) by Bryan Villarin

Flickr

Flickr’s People in Photos

I’m glad Flickr finally released People in Photos. It’s a feature that Facebook and Myspace had for a while.

Tip: If you write generous keywords on all of your photos, especially of people, you can label people in bulk.

  1. Head to Flickr Organize.
  2. Click more options and search for the person by tags only.
  3. Select all.
  4. Drag up to the batch area.
  5. Click Add People near the top1.

I figured this out after going through my 100th page. Better late than never.

  1. Fourth item from the left.

Unsure about renewing Flickr Pro membership

Back to a Flickr free account

I don’t feel confident in paying another $24.95 for a year of Flickr Pro.

These recent posts regarding Flickr aren’t comforting.

In addition, I keep hearing stories of photographers getting their photo(s) swiped by some organization/company without permission. The latest is from my friend, Noel Kleinman, where his boy, Jack, and President Obama was inserted into a newsletter.

I know it isn’t Flickr or Yahoo’s job to police. But, why doesn’t Flickr display the copyright information in a prominent location? Why is it in the same font and color as the other additional information?

I have a Premium Zenfolio account1 for my photos (Bryan Villarin Photography), so I don’t need Flickr for image hosting.

However, I’ve kept with Flickr because I can’t beat the traffic and community that it brings to photographers.

Until someone gives me a compellling reason, why should I patronize a company that seems to scoff its users?

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Behind on viewing Flickr contacts

I’m overwhelmed with so many awesome Flickr friends and contacts. If you don’t upload photos on a regular basis, you’ll get shoved into page two.

I wish Flickr had a RSS feed for all your contacts. Can’t they integrate Yahoo Pipes with Flickr somehow?

It’s tedious to create imaginary friends on FriendFeed.

I guess I need to open each of my contacts’ photostreams, click the “Latest feed” RSS link, then organize it in Google Reader.

You can slap me for whining if there’s no other way. But, do you know something about this that I don’t?

Don’t fake friend me

Someone on Flickr added me as a contact — and promptly removed me — knowing very well that I’d get notified about the new contact.

Not cool and very sleazy.

I had one of his photos faved, but not anymore. You’re on my bad list. Good day. I said good day!

Still preferring jUploadr vs the new Flickr Uploader

The new Flickr photo uploader is spiffy because you can now upload more than six photos at once. Unfortunately, they’ll be out of order. I prefer uploading by the order of the date taken (i.e. oldest to newest). jUploadr has supported this for awhile, so I’m sticking with it.

That’s all. :)

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