I’ve enjoyed playing around with the beta version of picture licensing site – Picfair this week. Created by former Guardian colleague Benji Lanyado, the idea is that the copyright holder of an image (ie. the photographer who took the shot) names the price for a licence to reuse the image.
The licence is a good deal simpler to understand than many and the presentation is clean and intuitive to use. The USP is the fact the seller names the price but, like other services selling to mainstream media (eg Demotix), the proof of its success for photographers will be whether the demand is there from the media buyers.
It’s fun to use, interesting to browse and it will be fascinating to see how it develops once everything goes public tomorrow – if you didn’t get an pass for the beta, you should be able to give it try sometime on Monday.
Once again the whole issue of filming public council meetings has been dominating my blogging activity.
Over at the Talk About Local blog I caught up with the Private Eye and Telegraph coverage of the issue and on my hyperlocal blog, the request to film some council meetings has finally reached decision day – next Tuesday.
The map now records ten experiences from people around the UK. Please do let me know if your local council should be included.
Crowdmapping issues using the Maptastica tool shown in the map above was one of the elements featured in this week’s newsletter I write for n0tice.com on a Tuesday. This week’s also featured the slideshare below which can be used as a tutorial with guided groups during a webinar or face-to-face session to get started with n0tice.
Dim Sum Digital 
