Red Links 06/05/08

So, Flickr extends it’s programme to give Pro accounts away to charities. Forgive me for being a cynic, how are charities really going to benefit from unlimited Flickr space? I’m fairly cynical about charities at the best of times, but the idea seems a bit hollow. 

Go - download the new Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip for free. It’s old school NIN, not in the vein of Ghosts. A nice addition to their catalogue. Available in different encoding flavours too. Loving Echoplex

Raising money from your users instead of a VC? Ravelry is doing it. $71k isn’t bad either.  

Hairy Ben is such a diplomat, when it comes to affairs of the heart.

The Catholic Church wants to can Ramsay’s show because it uses bad language. Yes, of course, censorship works. And stopping one show from using bad language is going to stop people from cursing. Get real.

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He’d do anything for cash. Meat Loaf, Tiffany and some kid do AT&T. Tis nasty painful. Via Jeff

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4 Responses to “Red Links 06/05/08”

  1. mj » Blog Archive » Bits and pieces… on May 6th, 2008 9:07 am

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  2. red mum on May 6th, 2008 10:48 am

    “So, Flickr extends it’s programme to give Pro accounts away to charities. Forgive me for being a cynic, how are charities really going to benefit from unlimited Flickr space? I’m fairly cynical about charities at the best of times, but the idea seems a bit hollow. ”

    I think this is more than a hollow gesture in terms of benefits to charities for all sorts of reasons, branding, SEO not to mention the practical uses of the site for your work. I take pics for a charity in Dublin and put them up in Flickr, so logistically I could take pics, upload them and someone in an office outside Dublin can have within a short time of an event.

    It is a small gesture but, I think, a nice one nonetheless.

  3. Alexia on May 6th, 2008 11:30 am

    @Red Mum: Lots of image hosting companies offer free space and organisation in collections and albums. Charities could get this for free any day of the week. So, it’s a very cheap thing for Flickr to offer.

    If it’s such a boon for charities and so cheap for Flickr to offer, why don’t they offer it to all organisations that have charitable status Pro accounts instead of 10,000 accounts? And to a wider number of countries than just five.

    And why just a year subscription? What happens when the year is up? Are charities exempt in year 2 and forced to pay subscription fees? Interesting questions - I wonder what Flickr will offer these charities.

  4. Ben on May 7th, 2008 10:02 pm

    eh im not hairy as such . . .

    in future please use such adjectives as ‘masculine’, ’slim’ , ‘the fair ben’ etc etc

    you get the picture

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