Last Sunday, at another great Boston Media Makers gathering, I told folks about some of the gems bubbling to the surface on 9Neighbors.
There was the video of a hawk lunching on a pigeon on Boston Common. The great pair of videos from Somerville City TV on the Assembly Square project. The photo of Dice-K's Nikes in the classical Greek art section of the MFA. I could go on and on -- lots of wonderful stuff.
In the flurry of tweets that followed BMM, I decided Twitter would be a good way to let people know about items I find.
So I setup 9N -- our 9Neighbors Twitter account. We'll use the account to send out a link that we like every day.
If you have link suggestions (for 9Neighbors the site, or the Twitter account), just reply to us via Twitter (@9n).
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
How Flickr Photos Appear on 9Neighbors
A Flickr user contacted us today wondering about our policy on use of Flickr photos.
Here it is:
We use photos distributed by Flickr in its feeds. Mostly, we use feeds for local tags like this one: api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=bostonma. Sometimes we also use feeds for specific users.
According to Flickr, photos that appear in feeds like the one above can be blogged, as long as attribution and links to the original item are provided (which we do). A Flickr user can prevent photos from appearing in feeds by switching the "Who can blog your photos" setting on this page: www.flickr.com/account/?tab=privacy.
I'm blogging this because we want to make sure we get it right. Hopefully folks will point out any problems or gray areas in the comments.
Here it is:
We use photos distributed by Flickr in its feeds. Mostly, we use feeds for local tags like this one: api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=bostonma. Sometimes we also use feeds for specific users.
According to Flickr, photos that appear in feeds like the one above can be blogged, as long as attribution and links to the original item are provided (which we do). A Flickr user can prevent photos from appearing in feeds by switching the "Who can blog your photos" setting on this page: www.flickr.com/account/?tab=privacy.
I'm blogging this because we want to make sure we get it right. Hopefully folks will point out any problems or gray areas in the comments.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
And the Most Popular Photos of December Were ...
Here they are, the winners of our first Shoot9N contest:
For Boston, it was "Swan Lake" by Sweetbriar
For Somerville, "Davis Square: Iced T Leaves" by rnolan1087
And for Cambridge, an untitled photo by baoram07
Congratulations to the winners. It's fun to see such wonderful local photography. I'm going to send them all a lovely book of photos.
We're going to be running Shoot9N again this month, so check back over the course of the month to vote on your favorite photos.
For Boston, it was "Swan Lake" by Sweetbriar
For Somerville, "Davis Square: Iced T Leaves" by rnolan1087
And for Cambridge, an untitled photo by baoram07
Congratulations to the winners. It's fun to see such wonderful local photography. I'm going to send them all a lovely book of photos.
We're going to be running Shoot9N again this month, so check back over the course of the month to vote on your favorite photos.
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