Where to Find Free Images and Art Resources for Blogs?

Where does one find images that can be posted online with­out infring­ing copy­right laws? That’s a common prob­lem faced by blog­gers, at least by the ones who don’t want a DMCA com­plaint filed against them.

With most of the online mate­r­ial belong­ing to some­one and being posted by some­one else, it’s easy to unknow­ingly become an accom­plice to con­tent theft. Some­how, it’s easier to tell when text is free for dis­tri­b­u­tion. What about all the ubiq­ui­tous art and images with no obvi­ous author­ship or copy­right notices? In many cases it’s impos­si­ble to tell. It would be desir­able to get them at the source, or at sites with clearly stated own­er­ship and dis­tri­b­u­tion poli­cies.
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WordPress 2.5 Released

As it had been pre­dicted, Word­Press 2.5 has just been made avail­able coin­cid­ing with Word­Camp Dallas.
This blog is already run­ning the new ver­sion and the upgrade was as pain­less as pos­si­ble. It took less than 15 min­utes, and that was mostly due to the slow upload­ing of files. Just make sure to check that all your plu­g­ins are up-to-date and that none of them con­flicts with release 2.5. A good place to check for plugin com­pat­i­bil­ity is the Plugin Com­pat­i­bil­ity 2.5 list main­tained by the Word­Press com­mu­nity. Full direc­tions to upgrade are listed in the Upgrad­ing Word­Press guide. [Read more]

Space Shuttle Atlantis Ready for Launch (Update)

Weather per­mit­ting, the space shut­tle Atlantis is set up for launch today from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A cold front is expected to move over the area and there’s only a 30% chance of accept­able con­di­tions for the launch.
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MarsEdit Blog Editor: Tagging WordPress, Movable Type

MarsEdit, the pop­u­lar desk­top blog editor for the Mac plat­form has been updated to ver­sion 2.1. The new ver­sion brings an assort­ment of new fea­tures, includ­ing enhanced web pre­views, the abil­ity to save drafts to the server, and instant searches for drafts and entries. [Read more]

Zenfolio Online Photo Sharing Review

Zen­fo­lio is an online photo shar­ing ser­vice sim­i­lar to Flickr, Smug­mug, Fotki, Expo­sure Man­ager, and many others. What dis­tin­guishes it is the ele­gance of its inter­face, easy of use, and superb cus­tomer ser­vice. I’ve been using it for almost a year and thought it would be useful to share my expe­ri­ence with others. This is not intended to be an exhaus­tive review, nor a com­par­i­son with other ser­vices. It’s rather a col­lec­tion of obser­va­tions from one user point of view.

Photo hosts pro­vide a ser­vice that falls in the gen­eral cat­e­gory of “photo shar­ing,” the pub­lish­ing or trans­fer of dig­i­tal photos (and/or videos) online for dis­play, down­load­ing, print­ing, etc. [Read more]

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