That's an awful lot of video

Guess how much video is uploaded to YouTube every minute? Just a bit less than there are hours in a day. And this is a site that is losing millions of dollars every month.

Goes to show, online video is EXPENSIVE!!!!!

Sell your own photos on your site

A pretty smart photog I know, Gerik Parmele, shared this link on his FriendFeed a few days ago. Still need to investigate it a bit more, but I'm thinking it may just work for someone with a niché market and audience.

So, Mr. Anderson. Why not make it free?

James Ledbetter questions why Chris Anderson – editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail, whose new book proclaims that giving things away for free is the "radical" new business model of the future – doesn't practice what he preaches with the analog version of the magazine.

Pretty good points in this column about how advertising works with regard to audience and magazines. But it doesn't take into account how the ad model is breaking down.

A short good read. Have a look.

Unique photo story

Photo story from GOOD depicting personalities of people by what is in their refrigerators and freezers. Found this via 10,000 Words on Twitter.

Great variety of photography

Here's a great gallery of images from the entire spectrum of the photography landscape. From photojournalism to fine art and everything in between.

Might open up your mind to some new ideas, really.

Making Art from the web

Here is a very cool idea to take individual musical elements -that happen to be YouTube videos- and allow a user to create something new. It's called remix and it's pretty damn great.

Have a play...

Microstock and the devalued image

When you see companies like this gaining traction of use and investment, it's a good indication for the overall value of images.

Digital cameras have made the creation of images climb rapidly. Now think of your simple business practices....supply and demand. If you have a ton of supply and there is not a demand to use the supply up, what happens? The goods get cheaper.

So, how do you separate your work in an effort to get a better ROI?