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Be Still My Beating Photo-Geekery Heart!

Spurred on by both a comment from Hanni and the dismal lack of web gallery software that will do what I want it to do, I spent some time yesterday having a serious rethink about methods of publishing my (non-assignment) images on the net.

As it turned out, I unknowingly already had the solution: I just needed to reinvestigate my Flickr account.

Boy, has that place come along. For pro accounts (which I have, and which incidentally they have a good promo price on at the moment) they now offer a 1GB monthly upload limit (which wouldn’t last me a day professionally, but which is plenty for every non-pro use that I can think of), unlimited storage, and unlimited bandwidth.

But I wanted more than that, oh yes. I also wanted auto – and instant – display of thumbnails, permanent and secure unlimited archiving (yep, they have that too), batch uploading from the desktop (yep), custom category/gallery display (erm, yep, do you see the pattern emerging here?), hotlinkability (new word there, but they have it) and a search facility (nods).

By this stage, I was running out of requests. Dammit.

So I decided that I wanted RSS and Atom feeds of my images (yep) and finally, almost rabidly, I dreamed up that I wanted a way to splice – chronologically, no less -  my Flickr feeds with other of my own feeds (from this weblog, for example). That they didn’t have, but then it turned out that Feedburner and Flickr together can make that happen in a few minutes, too.

I ran out of ideas then, and also of reasons to not use Flickr.

So it’s well worth checking Flickr out if you are wondering about ways to get the things that I wanted, and there are free accounts available as well as the pro version.

Note to those reading via RSS or Atom feeds – and happily I know that you are many – try the new ‘Rogi: Alive and Spliced’ feed (that URL will work in your feedreader), it’s cool, and will get much, much, cooler.

Downright chilly, even.

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