questions for dbd

• Which films do we submit to the film fests?
• at what point are we going to install a database for managing media??
• Can we come up with an organizational-scheme for all of our media that will make for better navigation??
• exhibition at MIAD?

In the Share, Share Widely interview, Axel Bruns mentions a number of technologies that I began to explore in the end days of MAP and now utilize for empty streets (blogs, Flickr, Technorati, del.icio.us, and applications built from their APIs), but I don't think donebestdone has incorporated any of them into their website. Why?

• Q: What do you think of his thoughts on blogs (etc)?

Jason: I think blogs are a great idea. We could syndicate our content via RSS feeds, upload new content through a web form, and organize pages as well as search the site via tags applied to new images. It seems to me that it would be more efficient, easier to navigate, and less difficult to maintain. We would need to design an acceptable skin.

Flickr would be a great space to store our images as well. Currently we're generating thumbnails for each image (i've been resizing all of mine as well to bring down filesizes). While I'd still end up resizing images before uploading them to flickr, the thumbnails would be auto-generated, the photos could also be tagged more extensively and be searchable. I suggest uploading many more of our photos, and then we could show thumbs of photos of our choice for display on the website, with access to other photos via search or a link (from weekend/event name to a "set" on flickr?)

JeffreyBarke: Not only does Flickr generate thumbnails, but the following image sizes are available through their API:

• small square 75x75
• thumbnail, 100 on longest side
• small, 240 on longest side
• medium, 500 on longest side
• large, 1024 on longest side (only exists for very large original images)
• original image, either a jpg, gif or png, depending on source format

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• Q: Should donebestdone designate its media "copyleft"? (anyone who redistributes the media, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it)

We could put our work in the public domain, which would reserve us no rights.

what about the creative commons license? It would also allow us to automatically grant permission for others to use our works. We could license it non-commercial share-alike or simply share-alike...

Or Anti-Copyright?

Another question: if we incorporate a logo into our works, should we require that the logo be incorporated into derivative works?

Or would you prefer to leave our stuff copyrighted?

[jason] I personally think that if donebestdone is primarily concerned with quantity, speed & collaboration, it only makes sense to designate our media without full copyright protection. I think that it certainly slows the creative process, and closes off our processes from others. Furthermore, we would be burdened by granting copyright permissions to those who we would like to collaborate with, and they would be slowed by having to wait for us. The creative commons Attribution-Non Commercial?-Share Alike? 2.5 is my personal choce. This should encourage the proliferation of remixes and reutilization of our media, and requires that those who do so must share that work in turn.