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Flickr joins anti SOPA protest by allowing users to darken their photos.

More Canadian copyright tax - on your wedding songs (and photos hidden away in there too)

9 year old Martha Payne's blog about her school dinners. Went viral and then some when the local council tried to ban her taking photos of her meals.  Social media did the rest.

This is a community of online storytellers - uses photos, audio, text (no video).

Take a photograph of an old photo in context and speak to it.

Great guide put together from a series of blog posts. Talks about various techniques for blogging, podcasting, photo work, etc and takes a no-nonsense view of learning these tools and taking responsibility for yourself when using technology. Most things are valid outside of journalism so this is useful for all.

PicFindr searches the web* for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially. Several licensing arrangements have recently emerged as alternatives to copyright (sometimes called "copyleft") and PicFindr makes sense of them all by helping you find images based on what you have to do to use them, whether licensed under Creative Commons, GNU, a site-specific agreement, or something else. PicFindr can even find free images you can use commercially without requiring permission or credit of any kind!

Beth Kantner tellsa tale of having her CC image reused and having an 'All rights reserved' label put on it. She gathers the comments that were made with some interesting takes on it.

Image of scaffolding but with description that mentions education and has a good example of scaffolding environmental regeneration.

Leafsnap - ID trees by taking a photo of their leaves on your phone.

Goodbye Blogger & Picassa; Hello Google Blogs & Google Photos.

Interesting - on the dissonance of the CC-BY license.

Interesting tool I came across after following a discussion about people changing their CC licence and then end users struggling to prove that they had fairly used under an earlier license. "mageStamper is a free tool for keeping dated, independently verified copies of license conditions associated with creative commons images. You can use it to safeguard your use of free images from license changes, or to prove you are the original image creator."

Use IFTTT to grab all sorts of data to your Google Drive - either into Docs (eg Tweets) or just into storage (eg Flickr or Instagram images)