…they could help owners of copyright in images track down their “orphaned” works. A hot news story in the UK in recent days has been the passing of a law to allow photographs to be published without the copyright owner’s consent, provided a “diligent search” has been undertaken to find the owner. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22337406 Many … Read more
I’ve recently discovered the Google Image Labeller (or Labeler as they call it) and am slightly hooked. However, I remain to be convinced that it’s of any use at all. It appears to be an attempt to improve image searching by “crowdsourcing” human cataloguing of images. It’s presented as a game. You and a random … Read more
Why oh why oh why are so many websites falling victim to the current mania for Flash graphics? Obviously it’s a good way of doing complicated things like the Scrabulous game or the BBC iPlayer, but just what does it add to a straightforward static page, apart from download time and accessibility problems? The worst … Read more