Photos - Blogabond

I've been thinking a lot about photos recently because, frankly, it's not that easy to upload and manipulate photos on Blogabond right now. It's certainly doable, and not much of a chore if you just want to upload and tag a half dozen shots for a Blog entry. But, as users have been mentioning with increasing frequency lately, it's really time consuming to dump all 500 shots from your memory card onto the site.

That, in my mind, is a good thing.

While it's true that we offer unlimited photo storage for free, we do so with the Hope that our users will limit themselves to only posting the best photos that they have, and the ones that best compliment the journal entries that they write. The theory is that since it takes a bit of time to get a photo up and viewable, our users will be a bit more selective with the pictures they choose to share. At least, more so than they might be if we made it easy to dump the 4GB memory card from a digital camera straight onto the site.

At the end of the day, there are plenty of good sites on the web that offer free photo storage. And realistically, anybody using Blogabond.com simply as a place to store and view their photos would probably better served moving over to Flickr. I think of Blogabond as something like a cocktail party. Just a bunch of friends sitting around, telling their travel stories and showing off some cool photos. The last thing you really want at a party like that is somebody setting up the slide projector and running through all 4000 photos of his trip to Peru. It's all about selectivity, and I think that making it just a little bit difficult to set up that projector might turn out to be a good thing.

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Jason Kester on May 16, 2006 from Kendal, United Kingdom

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I left you a little message in my last entry. Will use the site again when i go away around europe again. If you are ever in UK there will always be a drink waiting for yourself too, birmingham, Leeds, ntotingham anywhere really i get around a fair bit. Brilliant to read this particualr blog as i ponder what future i will have myself and international relations/ innovation being my interests. We shall see. As for the photos i took 5000 while away and lost two batches (northern Thailand & half of Japan) due to normal traveller probs with both sets of pics i had. never mind. but i comment here to say, i Hope my 332 aren't too many? ;)

they were the pick of them though either that or relevant to the writing.

well jason take care. where are you heading next?

50.

written by 50watts on June 4, 2006

50, your photos rock. Every one of them. You could watch B'bond stock plummet the day you lost your camera. 330 of them is hardly enough. And for the record you're taking up something like 50megs of hard drive space, leaving us a mere 799.95 gigabytes before you bleed us dry!

If I ever find myself M6'ing my way through your neighborhood again, I might have to stop off for that Pint!

Jason

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Jason Kester on June 6, 2006

Oh yeah, if you ever want to tag and title those 332 photos, we've got new tools up to do it quickly:

http://www.blogabond.com/Photos/PhotoTag.aspx

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Jason Kester on June 6, 2006

We are also massive fans of 50's (Blogboy's!) photos and pretty much all of our "arty" ones are attempts to emulate his. He could never have too many of any website!

Murph, Tay, Colly and Erin. x

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Murph, Tay, Colly and Erin on August 2, 2006

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