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This Article Is Miley Cyrus Link Bait

Actually, this article is more of a commentary on collective mental illness, exploitation and mountains made of molehills—no, that's not a boob joke. It's also about invented controversy for the sake of ogling eyeballs and links at the expense of a teenage girl who will be lucky if she's not in rehab on her 18th birthday.

Most Flickr Users Don't Have Uploaded Photos

Webometric Thoughts: Average photos per Flickr Member: ZEROWebometric Thoughts blogs that based on a random sample of 324 Flickr users that 216, or 67%, had zero photos.If this is true that would leave you to believe that more people may be consuming photos on Flickr than publishing photos on Flickr.From Webometric Thoughts:

Shutterfly Gallery Takes Off

Showing people your pictures online has become routine - there's no shortage of sites at which users can display one subtitled photo at a time.  Shutterfly is taking a slightly different approach, however, with a new feature that's more like a social scrapbook.

SES London

Let’s kick things off for SES London 2008 with a few photos: Business Design Centre - Cool venue for a conference Matt Bailey getting the sock puppet treatment from Greg Jarboe, pre-conference Frank Watson and his budda belly gets rubbed by Li Evans Kevin Heisler, Kevin Ryan, Gary Lynch and Stewart Quealy from Incisive

The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal and Photos

Well two days ago, in light of the woes coming from Yahoo's earnings conference call, I suggested that maybe now was just the time to pack it up and sell the ship to Microsoft, and it seems like somebody decided to take my advice. Only joking of course.

Getty Images Falls Victim to the Changes of the Internet

It seems like every week there’s another example of how the Internet has toppled business models that have been in place longer than the Internet itself. Control is not really possible when there are so many ways to pirate or undercut sales. The newspaper, music, movie, and now images market are changing drastically (and I love to read Seth Godin’s take on the changes).

Search Insider Summit - Day 1 Pics

As has become the practice for me while blogging conferences, I take a lot of photos. Not as many as Tamar Weinberg, Barry Schwartz or even David Berkowitz, but quite a few.

Videos, Books & Photos on Google Maps

The search page of Google Maps now shows location markers. The markers can be in the form of videos from YouTube, books from Google Book search or geo-tagged photos from Panoramio.

PubCon - Day 2 Pics

Alrighty then. I’ve added photos to Flickr from day two of PubCon. Here are a sample.

Reuters Photos Gummed Up Google News

Algorithmic accidents at Google News have been blamed for matching the wrong photos to stories, including a really unfortunate one caught by Newsweek.