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 Wednesday, June 7, 2006
started 6/7/2006; 1:52:39 PM - last post 6/9/2006; 2:03:30 AM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, June 7, 2006 
6/7/2006; 5:52:39 PM (reads: 4624, responses: 5)
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Speaking of photos...
| | Which is all I can say about that last link, since I don't know Norwegian. (I'm half Swedish, but all I know is Taks sa mycket.) |
| | In any case, thanks to Jan Omdahl for a fun interview at Reboot8. It must have worked, because there are a lot of comments below the thing (which is just the first installment, by the way). |
What to charge for a photo?
| | A well-known publisher would like to use one of my photos in a book. What should I charge, if anything? |
| | I've been approached before, but only by individuals whose needs are modest. In those cases I've told them just to go ahead and use the photos. |
| | But in this case, well, why not charge? |
| | Are any readers in the stock photo business? I'm at least curious to know what the going rate is. |
Cingular vs. non-Windows laptops
| | My Sprint Ambassador cell phone trial has expired (after less than two months) and I'm hooked, I love the BlueTooth EV-DO capability. They say it'll cost at least $50 per month to get it reactivated. Is that a reasonable price? Or, could I get it from my current cell phone service provider, Cingular? |
| | Well, I have some experience here, as a customer trying to get EVDO-like service out of Cingular. (I became a Cingular customer when the company ate my old provider, AT&T Wireless.) |
| | First, Cingular doesn't do EVDO, which runs on CDMA networks such as those by Sprint and Verizon. Cingular and T-Mobile do GSM, and their equivalent to EVDO is EDGE. |
| | I believe Dave's primary laptop is a Mac, and I suspect he'll get the same runaround from his local Cingular store as I got when I asked about EDGE for Macs and Linux laptops: "We only support Windows." |
| | There are workarounds, and I'm sure Dave is technical enough to deal with them. Still, it might be better to stick with Sprint or Verizon, since they clearly support user devices other than those that run Windows. |
| | [Later...] Since I wrote this, I've been pointed here and have heard vigorous advocacy from happy T-Mobile customers. One pointed to this device here. |
I may be the last to discover
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Pierre Andersson - Re: Wednesday, June 7, 2006
6/8/2006; 12:31:12 AM (reads: 803, responses: 1)
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I had no idea you're half Swedish! :-)
Just one thing: It's "Tack sa mycket"...
/Pierre (from Sweden)
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Ralph Brandi - Re: stock photos
6/8/2006; 1:21:36 AM (reads: 789, responses: 0)
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A textbook publisher in Denmark used one of my photos in one of their books last year (they actually said it was for the cover). They offered me US$100, which they said was a standard rate for stock photography. I took it. I haven't seen the book yet. I did get the money, though.
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Doc Searls - Re: Wednesday, June 7, 2006
6/8/2006; 1:44:26 AM (reads: 894, responses: 0)
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Yep, my Mom was Swedish. Her families (Oman or Ohman on father's side, Sponberg on mother's, so far as surnames have relevance to earlier generations) both came over from Sweden (Dalsland, I think) to Minnesota and North Dakota in the late 1800s. Swedish was spoken around her house, and Mom retained a bit of it, but my sister and I had exactly none when we grew up in the New Jersey suburbs. The second languages we heard in the neighborhood were Yiddish and Italian.
Well, I just remember how "Tack sa Mycket" is roughly pronounced. Then I consulted Google and still got it wrong. Shows how little I know.
By the way, my mother was the tallest in her family, at 5'6": http://www.searls.com/doc/mom/pix/1913-1946/source/1943_permit.htm . She also had dark hair, dark eyes and tanned easily. There has been some idle speculation that at least some of her ancestors we Mediterranean types captured and brought back by Vikings. Might be fun to do a DNA study.
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Dean W. Armstrong - Stock photo price generator
6/9/2006; 6:03:30 AM (reads: 772, responses: 0)
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