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Category Archives: Photographs
Animoto : Easy Music Videos from Your Photographs
Animoto is an online service that makes it easy to create professional-looking animated videos from your photographs. The process couldn’t be simpler — you just upload a group of photographs or choose them from your account on Flickr or other … Continue reading
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Give Online Photographs a Fancy Frame
Give your online photographs a high-class look with an elegant mat and frame. This is a nice way to display photographs you’re using for a special online exhibit or display, and is especially nice for library photography contests. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Flickr, Photographs, Picnik
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Helen Keller and Lizzie Borden
Two recent news stories caught my eye, quite literally. Each reported the discovery of a previously-unknown childhood photograph of a legendary American woman. The women couldn’t be more different : the notorious Lizzie Borden and the inspirational Helen Keller. In … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, History, Photographs
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Library of Congress on Flickr (yet again…)
Yesterday’s Brainiac column in the Boston Globe, “Everyone’s a historian now,” is about the Library of Congress images on Flickr. Columnist Joshua Glenn admits that asking the crowd to provide identification and information about these pictures makes him nervous, but … Continue reading
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Library of Congress on Flickr (More)
The Library of Congress collections on Flickr have gotten a lot of attention and activity since its launch on January 16. Flickr reported on their blog that in the first twenty-four hours after the launch, users added about 19,000 tags … Continue reading
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Library of Congress on Flickr
The Library of Congress and Flickr have a new pilot project called The Commons. Photographs from two of the American Memory collections, 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s, a total of over 3,000 images. The first set consists … Continue reading
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