The Flickr account Alan Fraser Travels is being populated with the pictures I've put up here on the blog as it will make it much easier to find them because you won't have to search old articles. Flickr is an excellent photo-sharing service and, unlike Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg can't steal anything one loads to it.
This is in part a reaction to the change to the ToS (Terms of Service) for Instagram in which it has been announced that Zuckerberg and his slimy cohorts can sell anything you load out there and simply by dint of your adding a picture to Instagram you license them to do pretty much anything they want with it, specifically that they can sell it for profit. Note specifically that this same ToS exists for Facebook and any image, anything you write, anything you create in the Facebook environment is valid for re-sale by Zuckerberg, et al.
Zuckerberg is the worst thing to happen to the Web since computer viruses as he has violated the public trust in every possible way and has violated every principle of Web sharing that has existed since the Web's inception. This kind of narcissistic exploitation is a fiendish thing as the public is beguiled by what seems an innocent gift in the ostensibly 'free' Facebook / Instagram packages.
Flickr has existed in its current form for quite a few years and is straight-up about how it makes money. If you want the Pro services, you must pay for them. However, the free service has no charge and that will be adequate for the requirements of many people. It's certainly adequate for my need to be able to quickly present pictures to you of anything that pops up in my travels.
One quite good advantage of Flickr over anything else is that there is a very smooth linkage between Mac OS X in iPhoto for sharing directly to Flickr. There is no need to use an FTP utility to transfer a picture as I tell iPhoto I want to share it and iPhoto simply asks where.
This change will really won't result in any obvious difference in how the blog is presented but it will create a collection that you can easily see and I'm pleased with that. As with everything else about my expeditions, it's free. Even though I'm broke most of the time, that aspect remains very important to me as share and share alike was the founding premise of the World Wide Web and perhaps it's antediluvian thinking to support that but I will do it nevertheless, happily and freely.
This is in part a reaction to the change to the ToS (Terms of Service) for Instagram in which it has been announced that Zuckerberg and his slimy cohorts can sell anything you load out there and simply by dint of your adding a picture to Instagram you license them to do pretty much anything they want with it, specifically that they can sell it for profit. Note specifically that this same ToS exists for Facebook and any image, anything you write, anything you create in the Facebook environment is valid for re-sale by Zuckerberg, et al.
Zuckerberg is the worst thing to happen to the Web since computer viruses as he has violated the public trust in every possible way and has violated every principle of Web sharing that has existed since the Web's inception. This kind of narcissistic exploitation is a fiendish thing as the public is beguiled by what seems an innocent gift in the ostensibly 'free' Facebook / Instagram packages.
Flickr has existed in its current form for quite a few years and is straight-up about how it makes money. If you want the Pro services, you must pay for them. However, the free service has no charge and that will be adequate for the requirements of many people. It's certainly adequate for my need to be able to quickly present pictures to you of anything that pops up in my travels.
One quite good advantage of Flickr over anything else is that there is a very smooth linkage between Mac OS X in iPhoto for sharing directly to Flickr. There is no need to use an FTP utility to transfer a picture as I tell iPhoto I want to share it and iPhoto simply asks where.
This change will really won't result in any obvious difference in how the blog is presented but it will create a collection that you can easily see and I'm pleased with that. As with everything else about my expeditions, it's free. Even though I'm broke most of the time, that aspect remains very important to me as share and share alike was the founding premise of the World Wide Web and perhaps it's antediluvian thinking to support that but I will do it nevertheless, happily and freely.
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