Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

As you may know I maintain a Creative Commons licensed photoblog at my website. I'm also cross-posting some of the better photos to my flickr page.

Even with my humble, and not really widely-known little photoblog, you can already see the Creative Commons license's effects on media sharing and remixing/reusing kick in. Quite a number of my photos have already been used by other people for various different purposes (blogs posts, articles, even album covers), including some of the "bigger" sites such as the Wall Street Journal Blog or Cult of Mac...

Here's the list of places I know of where my photos are used. Please leave a comment if you spot more of them in the wild. I intend to keep this list updated as more of my photos appear elsewhere.

(Oh, and I have no idea why people seem to be so obsessed with my "Sugar" photo...)

Sugar

• Wallstreet Journal Blog: A Clue for Tumor Survival Lies in How Sweet It Is (blog post)
• Discover Magazine: Blood Sugar Surges May Be Responsible for “Senior Moments” (article)
• Dear Mark: Sugar Cravings (blog post)
• VentnorBlog: Today is World Diabetes Day (blog post)
• EcoSalon: What Does That Bargain Really Cost? What It Takes to Make 10 Everyday Items (blog post)
• Paradox 365: The sugar cubes (riddle)
• Married to Fitness: Sweeteners Are Everywhere: Look Out for Hidden Sugars! (blog post)
• Charting the Course To Better Health Care (blog post) — dead link
• creativecommons.org: CC Q&A and the joy of being reused (blog post)
• Psychmama: Special Needs Sunday: Juvenile Diabetes Scare (blog post)
• About.com: Free Science Fair Pictures: Sugar Cubes (article)
• EGMN: Notes From the Road: Glycemic targets: How low to go? (blog post)
• TakePart: High Fructose Corn Syrup Losing Fight with Sugar: Hungry For Change (blog post)
• The Reluctant Eater: Raw Sugar vs Brown Sugar vs White Sugar (blog post)
• change.org: Cooking: Brainfood, Tasty Downfall (blog post)
• Just Beth: Sayin’ bye-bye to sugar… again… (blog post)
• UTNE Reader: The Future of Fuel: Sugar? (article / blog post)
• WiredPRNews.com: The Differences in Sugars (article / blog post)
• Wikipedia: Sugar (Wikipedia article)
• About.com: On This Day In Science - April 20 (article)
• Mahalo: How to Do the Sugar Busters Diet ("human-powered search engine" entry)
• GastroNomalies: The Sugar Shake Down (blog post)
• uusisuomi.fi: Sokerin hinta ponkaisi - tässä selitys (blog post)
• Suite 101: The Benefits of Body Sugaring (blog post)
• Una ceretta di miele e zucchero (blog post)
• Cheap healthy food: The Sweet Stuff, Part 2: White, Brown, and Sparkly Crystals (blog post)

Clock

• Angel Ortega: Dispersoul 1 (album cover)

Autumn Leaf

• The music of J.D. Warrick: GOING, A. THE LEAVING (album cover)
• myspace.com: ..Juliets Autumn (website logo)

Scissors

• 20somethingfinance: Is your 401k Match Being Cut? This May be your Hint to Find a New Job (article)

Soccer World Championship 2006

• Nicht nur in China versteht man kein Englisch... (blog post)
• ununun.de: Zu viel des Guten (blog post)
• International Football Expert: Soccer DVDs Are The Best Gift For Your Soccer Fanatic (blog post)

Organized

• Context is King: Organized (blog post)

Dandelion

• Herbal Healthcare: Dandelion (blog post)

Intel Celeron CPU

• Cult of Mac: Intel Unveils Lower-cost Mobile Core 2 Quad (article)

Smoke

• Carbon Trading: Australian Targets Loom (blog post)

Sun and trees

• Let's Read and Find Out!: The sky, the sun, the stars (blog post)

POSIX.1g

• Nyfiken Vital: Nya funktioner och tjänster i Nyfiken vital (blog post)

Easter eggs

• Blogging is my only vice: have a lovely Easter (blog post)

Use more bandwidth

• RISOFTE: Tips Menghemat Paket Bandwidth (blog post) [Translation]

Webcam

• Mahalo: How to Install a Webcam ("human-powered search engine" entry)

Two Flowers

• So She Tells You: The Flower (blog post)

FYI, my new Miro packages (formerly known as Democracy Player) have now reached unstable.

After lots of ugly, ugly trouble with even getting a successful build (boost/python/dbus related, you don't want to know) the packages are back in shape now, with tons of fixed (or no longer reproducible) bugs and lots of upstream impovements and new features.

If you reported a bug against Democracy Player, please try the latest Miro package and check if it still occurs, thanks!

The upgrade should be seamless, your existing config and videos will be migrated from ~/.democracyplayer to ~/.miro automatically upon the first start of Miro.

Some of the new/fixed things in this release include:

• HTTP proxy support (uses the GNOME proxy settings, use gconf-editor to change them).
• Flash videos now play fine (non-jerky) and with sound!
• You can search various video sites (Youtube, Google video, etc.) online, and even save searches as channels.
• You can export your channel list into an OPML file (and also import OPML files, of course). I've been waiting for this for a very long time (it's a good way to backup your channel list, or move it to another machine)...
• Lots and lots of bugfixes and small enhancements, as usual.

Martin, you should enable comments in your blog instead of forcing me to resort to email or spamming Planet Debian :)

Seriously though, while I know that the FHS recommends /media as a mount point for removable media (and it sure makes sense for Debian as a whole to use that), one of the first things I do on my own boxes upon a fresh install is "rmdir /media /cdrom /floppy /initrd". I don't want to have yet another directory cluttering my root, and I find /mnt is perfectly fine for any mount points, especially since I don't really care whether I mount removable media or not. For example, I have /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/usbstick, /mnt/win, /mnt/hda1, /mnt/hda2, ..., /mnt/ipod etc. etc.

As mentioned earlier, I wanted to package the KDE videoblog client kitty for Debian. I finally found the time to really do it, and the package has entered Debian unstable a few days ago. The first bug has already been reported (sigh), but I'm working on it.

kitty got even mentioned in Debian Weekly News (w00t!)

Hm, more food for my video iPod which hasn't arrived yet.

Revver ("a Flickr for video") is a new video publishing community site which allows you to upload, share, watch, and tag videos for free. You need a special upload tool for uploading videos (there's a Windows version, a MacOS X version, and a Java version which probably works on Linux).

They intend to give the creators of the videos some money by attaching a clickable advertisement frame (the so-called RevTag™) at the end of each video. Everytime a viewer clicks the ad, the video creator gets some money. While this might be a great idea, it still leaves me with a strange feeling (the ad is not on a webpage, it's appended to the video itself!)...

Some noteworthy details:

• They currently have a size limit of 100 MB per video.
• They don't censor the videos except for obvious copyright violations (porn yes, illegal stuff no).
• You get 50% of the money and Revver gets the other 50%.
• You need a PayPal account to get the money.
• "Your videos stay on Revver for as long as they generate a reasonable amount of revenue" (no unlimited hosting, it seems).
• The videos are automatically put into iTunes and formatted to work with the video iPod.
• All videos are automatically converted into the mov format.
• The default license for the videos is the Creative Commons ShareAlike license (you can probably choose others, I didn't check).

More information is in their first blog post, and in the FAQ.

A final quote from the blog post:

It’s a new game, we’re thrilled to be in it, and we tip our hats bigtime to the Ourmedia crew, the YouTube crew, the Participatory Culture crew, the Creative Commons crew, and all the other crews that came before us.

All in all this looks quite promising, and I'm curious how it will develp and grow...

(via Boing Boing)