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The following is straight from facebook.com’s Terms of Use page at http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf:

“You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through the Facebook Service. You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses.”

Basically, if I’m reading this right, they could go ahead and repurpose any photographs of mine I’m posting on the fan page I was in the process of building? And without me getting ANYTHING out of it? I don’t think so. I’m closing it today.

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Who would have known just HOW MANY there are… Just added city/street, landscapes, still life and MORE portraits…

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Slowly but surely I am filling Gallery with portraits, still life, street photography and more. Who would have thought there were so many… and counting?! Check out a sample!

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So, here’s the question. Do you actually save anything if you’re trying to save money, or are you just spending MORE in the end – more time, more nerves, more…

Yes, I’m still at it, trying to get three freeware apps – each GREAT in their own right – to talk to each other. AND IT’S NOT EASY. But then, I’ve always been somebody to love this kind of a challenge, so here I am, still plugging away at it.

Here’s where it stands: I have Gallery 2.3 – surprisingly successfully – embedded into Joomla 1.5. I have just now started to also embed it into WordPress. At the same time, I’m trying to literally take everything out that the makers of Gallery so painstakingly put in. I’ve removed the dates from albums, I’m not displaying the album actions and search bar. I’m basically going bare bones. Why? Because all I wanted was ONE central place to feed photographs into. And I’m getting there, with a little more tweaking.

Sometimes, though, in my darkest hours, I sit at my computer and am ready to take a hammer to it. Yes, I love a challenge. And I’ll keep at it. Maybe in a year I’ll cave in and get a smugmug account.

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Do you follow common “tweetiquette”? What is that, anyway?

I feel compelled to write down a few points I feel should be taken into account when posting on Twitter, regardless of how you are posting (txt, tweetdeck etc.).

1. Tell me something interesting. Give me a reason to follow you.
2. Don’t expect me to follow you if you don’t tell me something interesting.
3. I WILL block you if you are being offensive.
4. Just because other apps are feeding into your Twitter posts doesn’t mean I think they’re interesting.
5. It would be nice if you followed me once I start following you, but there’s a reason Twitter makes that one optional.

A very wise person once said something like: ” ’tis better to have followed and unfollowed, than to never have been followed at all” or something like that.

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