Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Today, searching the Web for an image that you’re allowed to use in public (either at no cost or after paying a license fee) is a suboptimal experience. Web search engines Google or Bing turn up images with unclear rights or in bad quality. Specialized “silos” like Getty Images or iStock Photos work well for…

David Diamond on CMSWire – Five Reasons Why DAM is No Photoshop: “So what went wrong with the DAM industry? Where is the explosive growth? The IPOs? […] DAM vendors lack vision. Just as one could argue that PayPal should have been a product of Western Union, it’s easy to argue that DropBox and Google…

Cameron Morrissey on great leaders – Diary Entry #117 – Jump Under the Bus: “Any mistake in their area of oversight is their fault – They should have seen it coming, should have prepared better, should have audited work better, or should have set up better processes. They understand that there is always something they…

Seth Godin – Lead up: “We have an astonishing amount of freedom at work. Not just the freedom to call meetings, make phone calls and pitch ideas, but yes, the freedom to quit, to find a new gig, to pick the clients we’re going to take on and to decide how we’re going to deal…

Before you start thinking about common metadata for your images (creator, date created, caption, license), first consider what I think is the most important piece of metadata: A unique identifier for your image. And please make it a URL. Why? First, you want to avoid duplicates in search engine results. You’ll be using the same…

A pig on a technical blog? Sorry for being off-topic (and don’t expect good photos, I’m just a point-and-shoot amateur): I’ll publish a few images now and then because I want to experiment (in public) with semantic markup for both articles and images. I’d like to find out what search engines make of my HTML…

Tom Heath, Christian Bizer – Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space: “This book gives an overview of the principles of Linked Data as well as the Web of Data that has emerged through the application of these principles. The book discusses patterns for publishing Linked Data, describes deployed Linked Data applications…