September 17th 2008:
The amount of messages I had from my Flickr friends, the chasm I felt after leaving all of them and the community of people whose work I loved, well.... I have had a few months to think about it all.
Spent a great month in the UK, have come back to Tokyo and am really busy with work and stuff but something is missing. I shan't be renewing my Pro account but I will be uploading some work again on here and spending some time looking around at my friend's work again, cos I miss doing that.
Anything I put on here will be heavily watermarked and will just be a selection of faves. The bulk of my work now goes on my blog; see address below.
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Excellent thread going on here about all of the recent 'borrowing' going on from Flickr:
www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2008/07/07/how-every-flickr-ph...
This recent issue with Myxer using Flickr's API to make all of our pictures available for free download to mobile phone has brought me to the conclusion that it is time to leave Flickr. So I have deleted all my pics. I will be leaving this picture and my profile here for a few weeks [until my Pro account runs out] as I would like - if you want to - to get email addresses from as many of my good friends here as possble. You can email me at: alfie [atmark] alfiegoodrich.com
My blog is here:
blog.alfiegoodrich.com
...and it has an RSS feed so, if you want to, you can keep up with what I am doing a little more easily.
Although I have a responsibility to do my best to protect my work, I have done that by limiting permissions, and setting the right things in my account so that all my pictures are clearly marked as all-rights reserved and not for re-distribution.
The developers, like Myxer, also have a responsibility to actually read the terms of Flickr's API and adhere to them.
But, Flickr also should bear the brunt of the responsibility to police the people they hand over API keys to.
This piece is a very good summation of this weekend's Myxer situation. It affected us all and there are plenty of other people out there using Flickr's RSS feeds and API to rip us off.
www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2008/07/07/how-every-flickr-ph...
I cannot keep my photos here anymore because Flickr dont care about who uses them and for what. And all the onus seems to be on us to track down all the people breaking the rules with Flickr's API, rather than Flickr doing it themselves.
So, goodbye friends. It has been a great two years. I have made some wonderful friends here, met some of you in person and jammed online with the rest of you. Your work has inspired me and sometimes my work seems to have inspired you, which has been very humbling for me.
My work has improved as a result of all your comments and al the interaction with you and by having the chance to see your work.
I hope you will come and drop by my blog to see how I am getting on.
Best wishes, take care and thanks a lot.
Alfie
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blog.alfiegoodrich.com