Category Archives: Ramblings & Observations

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

Written by . Posted on October 5, 2011. Filed under Ramblings & Observations. 4 Comments.
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I am strangely saddened tonight after learning that Steve Jobs has passed away. Perhaps it is because he and I are close in age and it’s a reminder of just how important each day is. Or perhaps it is because I am humbled by his achievements. Someone more eloquent than I tweeted just a short [...]

I Was Hacked… Glad I Backed Up With Useful Plugin

Written by . Posted on September 26, 2011. Filed under Ramblings & Observations, Web Marketing. Tagged , , , . 4 Comments.
Hacked!
At 4:51am Sunday the server on which this blog is hosted was suffered a “defacement attack by a hacker, at least that’s what my hosting company called it. I’d never heard of such a thing, but they call it that when only the homepage of a site is altered and no other destructive scripts or [...]

Shame on TwitPic, Kudos to Mobypicture

Written by . Posted on May 11, 2011. Filed under Ramblings & Observations, Web Marketing. Tagged , . 9 Comments.
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The British Journal of Photography today tells us that the image sharing service TwitPic has announced and agreement with the celebrity photo agency WENN. TwitPac will have the right to sell (and profit from, without you, BTW) any images you upload to its photo sharing website. Because TwitPic is one of the largest photo sharing [...]

ASMP Strictly Business 3 Next Week in LA

Written by . Posted on January 14, 2011. Filed under Ramblings & Observations. Tagged , , , , , . 1 Comment.
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ASMP is bringing Strictly Business 3 conference to Los Angeles on January 21-23, 2011 over in downtown LA at Sheraton. [And I'm going to be a part of it!] Interesting part is instead of a set list of classes, you are free to choose 6 of the following : The Agile Photographer: A Multimedia Partner [...]

Don’t Be a One-Hit Wonder

Written by . Posted on January 10, 2011. Filed under Negotiating, Ramblings & Observations. Tagged , , . 3 Comments.
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By now, it’s very likely that every client you shoot for knows about Flickr and other crowd-sourcing photo sites. Look at crowd-sourcing photography from a client’s perspective. Think about why some clients look to Flickr for photography instead of seeking out a photographer. I suspect one of the reasons they even consider Flickr is because [...]

Mac App Store Selling ‘Aperture’ for $79.99

Written by . Posted on January 6, 2011. Filed under Ramblings & Observations. Tagged . 5 Comments.
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A friend of mine, Duane Burleson, alerted me a few minutes ago that the newly launched Mac App Store is selling Apple’s imaging software, “Aperture”, for $79.99 instead of the $199 it sells for in both Apple’s online store and in its brick-and-mortar locations. (Note: The Mac App Store is available as a free software [...]