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Publishing and Building Communities Around Digital Images: What's Happened in 15 Years

Alan Levine
April 18, 2019

Publishing and Building Communities Around Digital Images: What's Happened in 15 Years

Back in 2004 I did presented at TCC on the idea of blogging and teaching around collections of photographs (http://mcli.cogdogblog.com/show/tcc04/photoblog/) then a thing called "photoblogging". How far have we come with these ideas in 15 years? The photos, the camera tools, the web sites we have are much improved. But what are we doing, can we do with maybe the most accessible technology tool, once most of us have in our pockets? How can images be used to communicate via metaphor? This session will explore the use of photographs in 2018 as a field observation tool, a creative/expressive outlet, forms of protest, and the ever spreading meme.

Participants will participate in the kinds of photo scavenger hunts and daily challenges I use in media classes, and will be able to contribute/share/discuss photos directly to a "SPLOT" site (e.g one using this available wordpress theme. https://github.com/cogdog/tru-collector)

Alan Levine

April 18, 2019
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  1. Publishing and Building
    Communities Around
    Digital Images
    What's Happened in 15 Years
    Alan Levine TCC 2019

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  2. Stuff
    https://cog.dog/show/2019/04/18/tcc-2019/

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  3. Take Photo Now!
    • View where you are
    • email [email protected]
    • subject: Name / Location
    • describe location
    • include: 

    [category tcc19]

    [tags myview]


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  4. Time travel
    to 2004

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  6. 2004

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  7. not til 2005
    not til 2007

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  8. TCC 2004
    http://mcli.cogdogblog.com/show/tcc04/photoblog/

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  9. blogging
    easy publishing •
    templates • reverse
    chronology • archives
    • search • comments •
    syndication

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  10. Blogging: Text
    Dominant

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  11. blogging
    easy publishing •
    templates • reverse
    chronology • archives
    • search • comments •
    syndication
    photo

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  12. Robert Burget
    Chandler-Gilbert Community
    College, 2004
    A community like Buzznet can be a terrific
    vehicle to achieving the comfortable, fertile
    classroom environment I’m looking for.
    Buzznet does something valuable and
    unique; it allows students to communicate
    with each other outside of class. By sharing
    images with fellow classmates, an
    opportunity exists for sparking a comment, a
    conversation or a friendship. When students
    unabashedly share their individuality others
    learn from it.

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  13. Buzznet 2004 (Wayback)
    http://web.archive.org/web/20040930161643/http://arteach-
    sideshow.buzznet.com/user//

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  14. Buzznet 2004 (Wayback)
    http://web.archive.org/web/20040930161643/http://arteach-
    sideshow.buzznet.com/user//

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  15. Buzznet 2004
    http://web.archive.org/web/20040929122445/http://
    www.buzznet.com/www/about.php
    Based in Los Angeles, Buzznet Inc. creates and
    maintains Buzznet.com, a vibrant social network for
    Internet based photo communication. Buzznet also
    develops the photocommunication platform -- the first
    software of its kind in the blogging space. Which
    enables tens of thousands of individuals, organizations
    and corporations to participate in the Web's full
    potential by publishing photos and fostering
    communication between users with simple yet
    powerful software and services.

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  16. Buzznet 2019
    http://buzznet.com/

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  17. “moblogging”
    textamerica.com
    fotolog.net
    2004
    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_blogging

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  18. 2019
    textamerican.com —> allroadsat.com

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  19. 2019
    fotolog.net

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  20. Just Launched Feb 2004

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  21. 15 Years Later
    https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog

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  22. One Person, One Idea
    https://darcynorman.net/2007/12/31/2007365/

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  24. https://www.flickr.com/groups/366photos/
    267,000 photos

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  25. Personal Habit
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/collections/
    72157603606520335/

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  26. Five Card Stories
    http://5card.cogdogblog.com/
    21728 stories from 27k photos

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  27. http://pechaflickr.net/

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  28. The Daily Shoot
    http://dailyshoot.com/ (internet archive)

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  29. DS106 Daily Create
    January 8, 2012
    http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc1/

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  30. DS106 Daily Create
    April 9, 2019
    http://daily.ds106.us/tdc2645/
    WordPress Theme https://github.com/cogdog/dailyblank
    2644 dailies later…

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  31. DS106: Telling Stories With Photos
    http://ds106.us/open-course/unit-5-visual-storytelling/
    http://bit.ly/better-photographers

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  32. DS106: Telling Stories With Photos
    http://ds106.us/open-course/unit-5-visual-storytelling/
    Photo Safari Blitz

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  33. SPLOT?
    http://splot.ca/

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  34. PhotoBlogging 2019
    http://photos.cogdogblog.com/
    WordPress Theme https://github.com/cogdog/tru-collector

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  35. Publishing and
    Building
    Community
    Find a metaphor in a photo…

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  36. http://photos.cogdogblog.com/collect/

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  37. Thanks! Alan Levine @cogdog • http://cog.dog
    Presentation:
    https://cog.dog/show/2019/04/18/tcc-2019/
    flickr photo by teliko82 https://flickr.com/photos/teliko82/2189579308 shared under a
    Creative Commons (BY-NC) license

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