http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/NowPublic Questions tagged with 'NowPublic' at Ask MetaFilter. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:35:15 -0800 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:35:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/56792/Feelings%2Dabout%2DNowPublic What is NowPublic? Anyone have experience with them? Today I uploaded a bunch of my pictures of the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/10/obama.president/index.html">Obama event</a> to my Flickr account. Tonight, I got a message from someone at NowPublic because they want to use one of my photos.<br> <br> I don't care who uses my pictures or what they use them for. All the photos are released under a CC Attribution license. I don't understand why, if NowPublic really wants a photo, they don't just take it.<br> <br> My concern is with <em>actively</em> associating myself with this site. Do they have a good/bad reputation on the internet? Until now, I'd never heard of them. The whole thing just seems a little too spam-esque for comfort. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.56792 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:35:15 -0800 CreativeCommons Flickr NowPublic sbutler http://ask.metafilter.com/36647/Web%2D20%2Dnews%2Dsites I'm trying to get into the spirit of "Web 2.0"-ish <a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1501809,00.html">news </a> sites -- the ones that let users tag, vote on, share and produce their own stories. But contrasted with the fireside feeling of reading blogs, the news-aggregator experience has seemed sort of cold, fragmented and short on users. What hot, promising or lively user-generated news services have you discovered? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.36647 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:03:05 -0800 digg news newsvine nowpublic web2.0 johngoren