Looking for Images? Find Creative Commons images with Image Search

This is just a great new feature for Google image search.

Let’s say you’re a blogger. You’ve just returned from a trip to New York City, and you’re writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image ‚Äî as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s easy to find images of New York online. But you want to make sure that you don’t use images without the permission of their owners, and you can’t afford licensing fees for professional photographers… [read whole article]

Just use the advanced search and change the usage rights. Not familiar with licenses? read their help about the different options.

Labeled for reuse Your results will only include images labeled with a license that allows you to copy and/or modify the image in ways specified in the license.

Labeled for commercial reuse
Your results will only include images labeled with a license that allows you to copy the image for commercial purposes, in ways specified in the license.

Labeled for reuse with modification
Your results will only include images labeled with a license that allows you to copy and modify the image in ways specified in the license.

Labeled for commercial reuse with modification
Your results will only include images labeled with a license that allows you to copy the image for commercial purposes and modify it in ways specified in the license.

Next step is to encourage content-creators to specify their licenses, so we can get this option with the normal search too.

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

From basic html to web 2.0 [movie]

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