That is right, if you subscribe for a year, you'll get a brown short sleeve t-shirt for free!  The catch?  The quantity of shirts is limited so you better hurry. 

I've only got six seven left in the following sizes:

• 2 Double Extra Large
• 1 Medium
• 1 Small
• 2 3 Extra Large

Once you subscribe, send me a PM and I'll give you a coupon code that you can use at the shop (http://shop.mozimedia.com) to get your free shirt.

Get them while they are hot!

PS: The product link is: http://shop.mozimedia.com/short-sleeve-t-shirt-brown 

At 4:00pm PDT today, somebody decided to plug their brand new $20,000 refridgerator sized Cisco Router into the power provided by our data center. Rather than turning on like a good giant router, this one decided to throw a giant fireball that burned the hand of the tech who plugged it in. The UPS, which keeps the power on when the city looses power, didn't like this one bit and threw it's breaker and took down several racks worth of servers. Photographica and XLAN were on one of those racks and we lost power for about an hour.

The tech is okay, but the router sadly didn't make it.

(a couple of these are from Cisco.com... I only wish I had one of my own to take a picture of...)

Photographica has been alive and running since 2001.  During these past seven years, Photographica has grown from a small-time website of around 500 users to a thriving community of more then 13,000 members.  That is a lot and there is every indication we will continue to grow!  There is plenty more this site can be and plenty more it needs, but to continue, Photographica needs your support.

The Photographica Subscription

For less then the price of a single copy of your favorite celebrity rag, you can be a Photographica Subscriber.  What does your $3.95/mo get you?

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  Turn off those annoying ads!
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  Subscribers get a nice little heart by their name
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  Subscribers can create slideshows to embed into their stories

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Yet another super-bump for the day

Hello!

This is a reminder(!).  It is pretty cool watching the tag cloud thingy evolve.  Once we get more stuff tagged, there is all levels of coolness in store for how to navigate this website.  There is no reason we can't pull off some of the stuff flickr does.  But it needs you to work.  What is tagging?

Tagging is a system lets you, the reader and participant of this website, decide how to categorize the vast amount of information at this website.

For example, using tags - Here is a map of all the tags so far.  The larger the tag is, the more popular it is.

The Goal
The goal of tagging is to look at a story and say "wow, I want to see more posts like this one!".  So you view its tags and find a characteristic you would like to see more of.

The Catch
See, the idea behind tagging is that you get to decide what uniquely describes a post.  So the catch is it is up to you to make it work!

This informational reminder has been brought to you buy the letters R, D and J and the number 2.

Thank you,
The Management.

Bumped, three years later, by Cory: A blast from the past and a quick reminder to tag your stories!

Howdy All,

Hope you like the new look.  If you've got bugs or any other kinds of issues with the new page, post 'em here!  

Update: Enjoy the new comment layout.  I'm aware that some cannot change their avatar and I'm working to fix this as we type. 

Hello Everybody,

I'm pleased present a more refined update to Photographica Mobile. Photographica Mobile is a slimmed down version of Photographica. Whats new?

1. It now has it's own RSS feed and handles popup images in a way that works with any phone. 
2. You can view the comments for each story.
3. At this time, slideshows are unsupported.

 

From your cell phone or iPhone, visit: http://www.photographica.org/mobile

Have fun!

Hello Everybody,

Hope you are all enjoying the many changes to this website. It has been a long road to get here, but I think it was well worth it.

Update 1:21pm PDT - Fixed for real!

I've been getting several reports that they are having trouble inserting certain images into their story. From what I understand, the photo will upload just fine but it can never get inserted into a story. I'm scratching my head as to what the problem may be.

Cheers!

Two years ago, Photographica began voting on stories for the front page. The decision was made after many people felt that the front page was far too busy and their story was only on the front page for a short while. Voting has succeeded in slowing down the number of stories posted to the front page. In fact, it has worked all to well. Yesterday, despite more than a dozen new stories, only a single story made it to the front page.

After giving it quite a bit of thought, I've come to the conclusion that voting was a mistake and we as a community should come up with a better way to rate stories and photos. Perhaps we do not need such a thing at all and nothing is rated.

As of today, I've turned off voting for Photographica. If your story was under "new", it will now show on the front page. If your story was hidden because it did not recive enough votes, you'll find your story resurected as well.  If your story is a draft, it will remain a draft until you publish it to the front page.

Want to keep on top of new posts on Photographica?  Did you know you can add the list of new stories to MyYahoo, Bloglines or Google Reader?

Make sure to add our "New Stories" RSS feed to your newsreader!

Add New Stories to your reader now!

By the way, if you are using MyYahoo, you can have the story thumbnails show up by clicking on the feed options (the Gear icon above the feed) and select "Headline summary, and Image" and click "Save".

Yes sir!  Get your t-shirts.  We've got Long Sleeve and Short Sleeve.

Dont forget that subscribers get a nice 20% discount on all non-clearance items (details in the Subscriber forums.)

I'm not sure why somebody would do this, but it appears as if an account on flickr has copied many images from Photographica.  It is a shame people do this, but it is always a risk when you display your photography in public.  Quite frankly, I'm amazed somebody would bother to copy photographs here only to put them on another public website.

You can see the account in question here

I suggest a polite letter to Yahoo's copyright department is in order.  You can get more information by
contacting Yahoo.  If you are one of the people whos work has been stolen, I suggest you include a link to your Photographica profile to assist their legal department.  Hopefully the fine folks at flickr will promptly terminate this persons account.

But it's too late to talk about it.

Goodnight.

Yes.  Forums are broken. Yes, avatars are too (but if you are super-slick you can disable images and get it to work :-) No, slideshows aren't ready but they are damn close.

But enjoy voting this fresh new story to the front page!

And to be a jerk, I'll show what slideshows are all about, even though non of you can use them... ;-) ... only as a second post ....

I'm not sure how many of you are Mac users, but there's been a request to provide some information on how to properly resize photos for optimum display on Photographica.  I volunteered to tackle this assignment on the Mac side.  For now I'm just going to deal with the resizing issue.  Perhaps someone else will take on the file format topic.

If you need help on doing this and you're using a Mac, I figure you're not into Photoshop in a big way, so I'm going to tell you how to do it in iPhoto.  I've used screen captures to show you how to do this.

First you want to select photo(s) that you want to export and then choose the Export command from the Share menu.  A dialog box pops up. Make sure that the File Export button is selected at the top.  Select "JPG" from the Format dropdown menu.  Click the radio button that says "Scale images no larger than:" and then set the width at something like 800 or 900 pixels.  The height will scale automatically.  Hit the Export button.  Next you'll see the Save As window. All you need to do there is name the file and choose where you want it saved.  After that you can upload the image to Photographica in whatever method you use (Web or FTP).  One thing to be sure of is to select the option that says Do not resize these images automatically. Otherwise your picture may come out fuzzy once uploaded.

So here is the resulting resized photo.

I will say one thing about jpeg files.  To get their smaller size, a lossy compression formula is used, which means that information is thrown away.  Everytime you edit and save a jpeg file information is tossed.  If you do it too many times you wind up with weird jpeg artifacts, which look like splotches of color.  The trick is to always make a copy of the original if you're going to edit a file, jpeg or not.  Then you've always got the original to go back to.  Another trick is that if you've done a lot of editing on a jpeg file, save it as a TIFF file, which does not use lossy compression.

I'm poking around with the ads and site colors.  I think the site looks much better now, eh?  The right column needed some work... it was to blended in with the main content... i think it's fixed now!

Yes, this is different then the original, but it is much more flexible. If you have used a scoop site before, you should be familliar with the working of this site. The new features are the popup tag.

If you are not familiar with the workings of scoop, follow the "full story" link and read how to use this site.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, bugs, etc, please post those here as well!

Update [2002-4-6 19:48:22 by coryking]:I've fixed a bug in the upload script - Turns out, some of your pictures might have gotten corrupted while uploading

Update [2002-4-6 20:32:32 by coryking]: Another upload bug fixed! This one deals /w users who have spaces in their username. If you have spaces in your name, and tried to upload, try again.