Zoomr & Photography

World of digital photography - Beautiful pictures from the BBC website, an interesting insight into a digital photographers day and a follow on to the idea of privacy:

"I want to bring attention to the fact we do have a right to shoot in public," he said. "Most photographers when a security guard says you can’t take that photo, they simply comply. We miss a lot of beauty in the world because photographers feel intimidated." 

This seems to be a reversal of the idea of blogs being somehow private - Now LJ & Vox allow privacy settings - most blogs don't. So take your pick and if you want to have a 'closed' blog choose a service that allows you to do so.

And don't think that people in public shouldn't read or react to or review or take pictures of something that is public.

Oh, and he is promoting a new photo-sharing website, Zooomr. One idea seems to be that you post from your phone and they are auto-tagged with GPS location & time/date stamp. The other is you upload them and tag them yourself. Oh, and the blog actually mentions livejournal and has a picture of the SixApart HQ in SF!

Comments

[Megan]

It seems that people want their public lives to be private and their private lives to be private while publishing them to the public.

What are we going to do with all these confused people?

[ES]

Nice point :) I think the issue is that people have expectations and get cranky when they are not met.

The photography I can sometimes see - you might feel funny if you saw yourself in someone's picture and had no idea it was taken, like seeing yourself commented upon, or in the paper, when you have no idea about it. And I can appreciate that some people may be stalked, or in the case of stars, chased - yes their public lives are very public but should be allowed some privacy.

But there is a big difference with photography and in particular photographing things or locations. Unless specifically prohibited then it is permitted.

Confused indeed :)

[userfriendly]

i know another place with a nicely tuned interaction system among 'neghbours' - another blogging service MULTIPLY.COM which raised the idea of privacy to the highest level.

they do have their privacy on the net -))

[ES]

That sort of thing is useful - I use Livejournal a lot (which is how I came to Vox) and like the multiple settings. I think the neighbours one is very good as well, to let you get to know people.