February 2012
“Pinterest is requiring sites to individually and explicitly opt-in to “this image is not available for public sharing”. In fact, the way they are providing for you to do this isn’t even something that individual photo owners could have done on their own - it had to be implemented at a Flickr-wide level, rather than by photo owners. This bothers me.”
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Tom Insam, on Pinterest and Flickr. I have to say I somewhat agree, since lots of Flickr users also complain about images of theirs going to Tumblr with little or not attribution.
I believe there’s a way to opt of the Tumblr bookmarklet on Flickr, but I’m not sure what it is, and it’s not that easy to find. Certainly these days I tend to use the Flickr-side sharing, since if that’s enabled, I assume the poster is OK with me using an image here, and the attribution gets handled automatically.
“As we drive out to the new dock wall, the car’s sat nav shows us sailing out into the Thames - the map has not yet been updated for a project that has literally redesigned the coastline of Essex.”
—Yes, it’s from the Evening Standard’s Life and Style section, but Supersize superport: London Gateway by Kieran Long is a surprisingly good read about the new container port being constructed on the Thames estuary. (via iamdanw)
