Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Breakfast at home: granola with fresh blueberries and unsweetened soy milk, hot water. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Linkchecking, kiosk work. Comm team meeting. Content and styling work in Drupal. Flickr API work. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: herbed roast chicken and new potatoes with steamed green beans. Afterwards I made a cocktail I found on the web with bailey's, kahlua, and grenadine; it was pretty terrible because it clotted but I drank it anyway. Watched Archer "The Honeymooners" on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Continued editing Kauai trip photos. I received a request from Martin Roldan to join CrowdMedia today, and after some consideration which included reading the terms of service on crowdmedia.co I decided not to join. A 50% cut of the profit seems too high to me, and I don't have photography connections in social media that are significant enough to bring my work even close to popularity in social media. I also don't take newsworthy or stockphotoworthy photos regularly (except for, perhaps, exterior scenes). From a Flickr forum page I found, it seems that CrowdMedia would have access to all my photos, including private photos, which is unsettling. It's also unclear to me if personal photos of people I know at, say, a birthday party, might end up on a billboard somewhere, and I don't want to deal with the privacy issues my friends might have with that. CrowdMedia seems right for photographers who have in their Flickr photostreams only work that others would want to pay for to publish and doesn't want to negotiate rights and pricing for each publisher or use and doesn't mind a third party taking a 50% cut.