Bitter wallet: BBC offers £75 for ‘accidental’ use of Flickr image

A Flickr image of Birmingham’s city skyline was mistakenly used as a backdrop for a BBC news bulletin, the corporation has said, offering £75 usage fee to the photographer.

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Flickr and geotagging: Part of the newsgathering model?

After speaking with Matthieu Stefani from cit-j platform Citizenside about how the site mobilises its users to cover local news events, a Flickr development came to mind as a useful tool for tracking/aggregating content around breaking news.

Using Flickr’s map function, you can search by keyword and location. A quick search for bushfire and Australia, for example, brings up a host of images from Flickr users:

A great resource for news organisations looking for new images and on-the-ground witnesses and contributors (just remember to respect Creative Commons licencing and attribution principles).

Flickr announced last week that it has passed the 100 million mark for geotagged images and the site has also introduced a feature, as part of the geotagging process, called ‘nearby’, which allows users to search for other geotagged images located with a 1km radius of their photo.

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MediaShift: Cheap, fresh content using social media

Roland Legrand suggests seven ways “to keep costs low, content fresh using social media”. He also adds: “Never give up on training”.

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Theage.com.au: Social media among the Australian bushfires

Asher Moses of The Age looks at the role of social media such as Twitter, Flickr and Facebook have played during the fatal bushfires that have raged through Victoria in Australia

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CnetNews: Flickr users invited by Getty to join collection

This week certain Flickr users began receiving invitations from the photo agency Getty, as part of a new partnership between the agency and Yahoo. A special Flickr-branded Getty collection will be launcing in March. Full story…

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Feeds feast for FT: new corporate RSS and FriendFeed experiment

(Try saying that headline 10 times fast)

First up, the Financial Times has announced a new RSS service for corporate users – an add-on for those paying subscribers who signed up for the site’s direct licence system introduced in April last year.

The customisable RSS feed will be available to corporate customers, who under the licence arrangement are entitled unlimited access to FT content on FT.com and third-party services, and can be tailored by specific search terms, a press release from the title said.

Not full-fat feeds as yet – users will click through to read articles on the main website.

Elsewhere, technology journalists at the FT’s San Francisco bureau have been experimenting with FriendFeed to create a single source of their links, articles and blog posts (it can also be used for Twitter and Flickr updates):

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – making the most of your newsgathering

Multimedia: make the most of interview recordings and images by publishing them, either on site, as part of an article or blog, or to a third party site like Flickr. Don’t throw away work you’ve already done that provides background or context. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – link Flickr and Twitter

Social media: Want to post images to your Twitter account? SnapTweet links Twitter with Flickr and lets you post your latest photo by sending a message to @snaptweet. Tipster: Laura Oliver

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Getty teams up with Yahoo to tap into Flickr users

Getty Images is to collaborate with Yahoo-owned image-sharing site Flickr to harness the potential of the site’s members.

Through the partnership Getty will invite Flickr members to contribute their images to a ‘Flickr branded collection’ on the agency’s website. Pics in this collection will then be made available for licensing by Getty’s clients.

Editors from Getty will select the members and the two companies are currently working on online tools for contacting Flickr users.

Members who chose to submit their images to the collection will hand over exclusive commercial rights of the photos to Getty.

“Flickr members will benefit from Getty Images’ global sales and distribution teams helping to market their images and from Getty Images’ expertise and experience in rights and clearances of visual content. Getty Images’ customers will benefit from the fresh, unique and individualistic perspectives of members within Flickr’s global community,” a release from Yahoo said.

A launch date for the collection is yet to be announced.

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk

Audio-visual: Be careful where you upload – read the terms and conditions first as they can include rights grabs. Revver is better than YouTube, Flickr is better than PhotoBucket. Avoid Facebook. Tipster: John Thompson

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