In my presentation last night to Social Media Club Columbia, I discussed how bloggers can legally choose images for their sites. We also discussed the best options for hosting content, ie: self hosting, using a Content Delivery Network, Amazon’s S3 buckets or a third party service such as flickr.

We also discussed how you can embed photos from sights such as flickr or picasa. We also dicussed how a Photographer or content creator can protect themselves by embedding IPTC and EXIF data into their photos and use the tineye.

There are also people who don’t want to copyright their images, instead they want to freely share their work with the world and there’s a copyright (copyleft) for them as well at creativecommons.org.

Creative Commons allows people to freely license their work any purpose that they would like. As you can see, today’s post is licensed with a CC license that allows remixing and requires a share a like.

WordPress has a plug in for blog posts if you would like to use this service. It’s called wp-license reloaded, it’s easy to install and customize.

Here's another Photo of the shuttle from my plane. on Twitpic
We also discussed what happens when someone like Stefanie Gordon takes a photo, the one above, and all the sudden it spreads across the internet like wildfire. If someone uses her photo without permission, what’s her recourse? Does she deserve to be compensated because she’s not a professional photographer? Did she happen to be in the right place at the right time?

Photo copyright Brett Flashnick 2011, All rights reserved.

Columbia, SC based photojournalist Brett Flashnick also gave an insightful presentation about copyright from a photographers perspective. What happens when a blogger steals your content? Can you sue? Can you ask them to take the image down? What happens if you don’t?

Brett also shared the copyright document “Title 17.” If you have time to read it, you should check it out. It has everything you could ever know about copyright policies.

Here are the slides from last night’s presentation:

Despite the unbearable humid summer weather, it’s still my favorite time of year. Here’s why.

Disclosure: This photo was taken during December, but it still reminds me of all the days I spent at the beach during the summer.

family time, originally uploaded by chipoglesby.

I know I’m biased about this, but I think I have the cutest niece ever!

Here are some photos from my recent trip to the Museum of Modern Art, home of the Tim Burton exhibit. If you get a chance, I highly recommend you go see it!

I spent Friday exploring The West and Greenwich Village. One of the things that I really like about the village is the rod-iron fire escapes on all of the buildings. I also found the apartment complex where they filmed the exterior shot of Friends. It’s Monica, Chandler and Joey’s apartment.

What started out with a trip to the East Village ended up with me being completely lost in Chinatown.

It’s really easy to start out in one direction and just wonder around the city and end up somewhere completely different.

Chinatown is by far my favorite place in NYC so far. The culture is completely different and if you didn’t know any better, you wouldn’t even know you were still in the city.

The city also has a different heartbeat at night than the day. At night, the streets are bright with the glow of restaurants and signs, the streets are bustling with happy people enjoying their time with friends and it just seems more festive.

During the day, the city is more cold, people rush about going to meetings appointments and work. It’s hard to overlook most of the restaurants and small cafe’s because you can’t see inside of them as well and are more likely to just walk by.

Just walking is what landed me in Chinatown. There’s so much to see, small vendors, chinese grocery stores, real actual chinese food to eat too! Like most villages in Manhattan, it’s a city in itself.

Enjoy the photos!

Here’s a map of foursquare check-ins that I’ve been keeping track of since I came to New York City.

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Here are some of my geotagged photos:

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I spent one day this week exploring the area near Ground Zero and the Financial District. Here are the photos I found from that trip.

Photos are from Ground Zero, Trinity Church, the Financial District, and Union Square.

I was in D.C. on business Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. While I was there, I got a chance to go around the mall and snap a few quick photos. Unfortunately, it’s suppose to snow up to two feet there!