Well, here we are at the end of 2011. As I’ve done for the last couple of years ( 2010, 2009 ) time to spend a fun evening trawling through the year’s photos picking out a few faves. Noticeably fewer photos this year, methinks it has been a busy one. Fewer photos does, however, make it easier to pick a few faces, every cloud… With thanks to all the...

As my avid reader will know, I give away my photos for free use as stock on Morguefile. Not been my most prolific year for new images but I was just flicking through them and was looking to see what had been the most popular by downloads in the year. It’s usually quite revealing. My favourites are rarely popular, the most useful ones are ( as I reflected in...

On 1st January 2010 I uploaded my first image to BlipFoto. And now, as I head towards my second full year I started to think about what compelled me to make sure, on pain of death, that I always manage to take one photo a day. If you’re not familiar with the site, it has a very simple purpose, it allows you to record one photo a day. That’s it. Like all...

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They often say that the pen is mightier than the sword and, yet, there is very little jail time associated with carrying a biro in your pocket. Recently I was wondering if the same can be said to be true of that which is written online. In the past I’ve written about scale free networks in relation to the Internet and you can see how anything written by a big...