The cisco meeting was about internet traffic and the routers to handle
it so there weren't many details. (the original info was in the wall
street journal)
a google turns up
"Post seemingly impossible self-potraits on Flickr and you get hired by Toyota"
http://www.metafilter.com/tags/flickr
which links to
http://flickr.com/photos/rebba
notice the 2 million views and counting
also turned up
"As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the
entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are
being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Each week,
about a half-million people download a comedic video podcast featuring
a former paralegal. A video by a 30-year-old comedian from Cleveland
has now been watched by almost 30 million people, roughly the audience
for an average "American Idol" episode. The most popular contributor
to the photo site Flickr.com just got a contract to shoot a Toyota ad
campaign."
http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2006/08/01/the_new_media_elite.html
The all encompassing aspect is that very wide communication is
available to everyone. If you have something worthwhile fame and
fortune may follow. I suspect Graham's photos would get much wider
notice on flickr than on the OM mailing list.. I suspect that if his
website had a paypal bin button he would have got some of my money
already.
-jeff
On 10/12/06, Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Jeff Keller <jeffreyrkeller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I haven't looked that closely at the various photo sites but in a
> > Cisco quarterly meeting the "suits" specifically mentioned how much
> > traffic flickr generated and that a young woman had been hired by
> > Toyota because of the recognition her flickr photos received.
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> What sort of photographs were they and what was she hired to do ?
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> ...Wayne
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