The Picasa Experiment
Since this week’s reading by Robert Niles is all about photo albums and integrating them into a blog, I thought I should give this a go.
I decided to go with the winner, Picasa. Since I use a Mac, I’m a bit skeptical, but Niles assures us the Safari problem has been fixed.
So I go to the Picasa site and realise there is no version yet for Mac, not a good start. Curse this PC dominated world.
Not to worry, they have a special ‘exporter’ for Mac which allows me to export pictures directly from iPhoto to a Picasa album… Cool, that’s even better.
So uploading the photos proved easy, but when I went to view the album I discover that my pictures have been put in reverse order.
So I click Edit>Organise and reorder>Sort by date and there is my picture sequence in all its kick-flipping glory. Now to embed the thing:
Success. Well that was pretty easy.
As for how slideshows fit into the realm of online journalism. Look at any news website, for example this one, this one or this one. When a big story breaks (especially a highly pictorial one) they usually incorporate a slideshow.
On a smaller scale, they are great ways for a small-time blogger or CJ to share pictures to go with their story.
NB: The photos in my slideshow are taken by my friend, Jon Scoble. He’s a professional photographer and I have his permission to use these photos (just wanted to clear that up).
