Free schwag: a badge for your camera bag. In exchange, just take a picture of you wearing it, or of your bag or jacket, and post a link to your photo in the comments here. All you need to do is email me your address: I will send them anywhere in the world. My mail address is on the contacts/about page here.
So far, badges have been mailed to Germany (lots), a few to the UK, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil, several to Australia, Canada, Philipines, Japan. These were made by Brilliant Badges in the UK, but please feel free to copy the artwork royalty-free, and make and distribute your own.
Update #2:
A series of mailed badge-wearers are sitting in my inbox awaiting linkeage here. Please don’t be shy, do post your own! Tia!
Update #3
More on order as of 2/09/07: will mail ‘em out early next week.
And, oh! “Your Flickr birthday is in 29 days!” Wow, I really look forward to it! From love to hate in less than three years, who would have thought that!
Tony, do you really need a photohost, especially one whose management seems to have treated you so dismally? Seems the only way to protect oneself from loss of data these days is to host it yourself.
I never want to go back to flickr, don’t get me wrong (Not even before they deleted my account). But I paid for their fucking service, it was my content and they blood well don’t delete it…
And going to another photo hoster to have the same fate looming in the dark? Yes, I need to host it myself. But I want to have some sort of access to some sort of community. And I have an idea to cut out this unneeded middle man (like flickr) and enable the people to get together and share content with another as they wish. Most of the technology is available already, I need to put it together in a sensible way. And of course there will be no lock-in, you would simply choose a webhoster (like for your blog), could easily back-up or move your content. I hope I put a big dent in flickrs business model. Alas, I won’t be able to start this project before next March and it will take some time – but anyway revenge is a dish best served cold.
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I feel like I am fading away…
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/dna.php?username=95589137@N00
And, oh! “Your Flickr birthday is in 29 days!” Wow, I really look forward to it! From love to hate in less than three years, who would have thought that!
Ha Tony, that link is very funny. I’m sure you’ve saved lots of screengrabs, right?
I don’t use Flickr, it’s just not very good, even as a plain old photohost.
Would you believe it, they even deleted the comments I made. Down the memory hole with me…
Yes, I do believe it. Did you see this? It’s all really not worth bothering about, Tony.
Interesting, what I was supposed to have done:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyschinkowski/2049225203/#comment72157603258180646
Tony, do you really need a photohost, especially one whose management seems to have treated you so dismally? Seems the only way to protect oneself from loss of data these days is to host it yourself.
I never want to go back to flickr, don’t get me wrong (Not even before they deleted my account). But I paid for their fucking service, it was my content and they blood well don’t delete it…
And going to another photo hoster to have the same fate looming in the dark? Yes, I need to host it myself. But I want to have some sort of access to some sort of community. And I have an idea to cut out this unneeded middle man (like flickr) and enable the people to get together and share content with another as they wish. Most of the technology is available already, I need to put it together in a sensible way. And of course there will be no lock-in, you would simply choose a webhoster (like for your blog), could easily back-up or move your content. I hope I put a big dent in flickrs business model. Alas, I won’t be able to start this project before next March and it will take some time – but anyway revenge is a dish best served cold.
Darn, I wanted to invent somehting like this:
http://noserub.com/quick-facts/
Yes, do keep me posted on that Tony, it’s always great to have geeky friends who make useful stuff like that.
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