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Ad supported web version of Photoshop, a blogger’s dream come true

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PhotoshopCNet broke the story on Adobe releasing an online version of Photoshop, ad supported and all. The product is to launch within six months.

Why are they doing it and what good comes out? Well, they’re doing it for the money of course. Ad supported means ad dollars, but also for the possibility of spinoff software sales. You don’t buy Photoshop for resizing images, but you might if you’re going to do more heavy graphical work. This way, Adobe can earn money on people that really aren’t interested in buying image software at all, as well as getting extra sales when they need more graphical power.

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Originally posted on March 1, 2007 @ 3:28 am

Death of the Paparazzi

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According to a top paparazzo, amateur camera-phone photographers are putting the squeeze on celebrity photographers.

German Hans Paul, who says he once earned $120,000 for a picture of a then-pregnant Julia Roberts, said fees for paparazzi had been driven to new lows as even fans and autograph hunters now know how to market their pictures.

The advancements in camera-phone technology have made camera-phones cheap enough and the quality of the photographs good enough to be used widely and be useful at the same time. Furthermore, online outlets have made it incredibly easy for ordinary people to be linked with newspapers and other media to sell pictures to them directly. We covered one such outlet last December.

Mr Paul highlighted the example of the pictures of the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as evidence of how images captured on a mobile phone can create news in any media. He said: “There is no doubt that we paparazzi are suffering from this. There is hardly any money to be made in the everyday business.”

The Guardian has more. (Subscription required, required information is available here)

Originally posted on February 28, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog

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Darren Rowse has revealed 34 reasons why his readers unsubscribe from blogs. He asked his readers why, and there were total of 109 comments from which he has categorized the results. While I agree with most of the reasons, some of them were truly asinine. Here are the 10 reasons that topped the list.

  • Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming) – 37
  • Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead) – 29
  • Partial Excerpts Feeds – 25
  • Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) – 23
  • Too many posts that I see elsewhere (Redundant, Repeated or Recycled News) – 19
  • Uninteresting Content – 16
  • Irrelevant Content – 13
  • The Blogger’s Ego – Too much self promotion – 11
  • Low Quality Content – 11
  • Too many posts that are too long – 10

Visit Mr. Rowse here.

Originally posted on February 28, 2007 @ 11:33 pm

The Blogging Times returns: new name and heads down market

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Our report Feb 27 may have been a little premature, with the deleted Blogging Times strangely returning in the last 24 hours.

The old template is back at the site, however although the URL and header still state that you’re visiting The Blogging Times, the sites title has been changed to “abc”, both in the browser and feed:

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The links in the feed also dont work, taking users to the 404 Not Found screen.

Stupidly, none of the original content has returned either. At the time of writing The Blogging Times has the grand total of 4 posts with hundreds, if not thousands of previous posts remaining lost to the search traffic that they use to bring in.

The new editor goes by the name of Eddie Daroza, apparently the author of The Rad Report, a down market tabloid/ celebrity blog, and it would appear as a consequence that The Blogging Times is headed down market as well, with headlines such as these:

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The “Porno” tag is an interesting touch for what was once a news blog of serious note. Admittedly I shouldn’t be one to criticize typos, but these pictures “own” Technorati? I thought the VC’s owned it, but I could be wrong.

I’d ask the sites owner for a comment, but I think he sort of already gave us an answer to where he’s looking to take the site in this video:

Disclosure: I was previously a paid contributor at The Blogging Times

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Originally posted on March 1, 2007 @ 5:40 pm