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

Flickr

Flickr’s People in Photos

In Flickr on 22 October 2009 with 2 comments

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 100^th page. Better late than never.

Unsure about renewing Flickr Pro membership

In Business, Flickr, Photography on 4 February 2009 with 9 comments

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

These recent posts regarding Flickr aren’t comforting.

• How Would You Feel if Your Flickr Account Were Permanently Deleted? (Thomas Hawk Digital Connection)
• Flickr works against photographers by stripping EXIF data (The Cosmic Tap)
• Tilting At the Windmill, One Last Time (James Duncan Davidson)
• Flickr User Asks Flickr to Check if Her Self Moderated Account is OK, Flickr Responds By Deleting the User’s Account Without Warning (Thomas Hawk Digital Connection)

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?

Behind on viewing Flickr contacts

In Annoying, Flickr, Photos on 15 November 2008 with 7 comments

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

In Annoying, Flickr, Networking on 25 February 2008 with no comments

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

In Flickr, Photography on 18 August 2007 with no comments

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.