Photos.

I've been thinking a lot about photos recently because, frankly, it's
not that easy to upload and manipulate photos on Blogabond right now.
It's certainly doable, and not much of a chore if you just want to
upload and tag a half dozen shots for a Blog entry. But, as users have
been mentioning with increasing frequency lately, it's really time
consuming to dump all 500 shots from your memory card onto the site.

That, in my mind, is a good thing.

I see this as a feature of the Social Interface to Blogabond.com,
rather than a shortcoming of the User Interface. While it's true that
we offer unlimited photo storage for free, we do so with the hope that
our users will limit themselves to only posting the best photos that
they have, and the ones that best compliment the journal entries that
they write. The theory is that since it takes a bit of time to get a
photo up and viewable, our users will be a bit more selective with the
pictures they choose to share. At least, more so than they might be if
we made it easy to dump the 4GB memory card from a digital camera
straight onto the site.

At the end of the day, there are plenty of good sites on the web that
offer free photo storage. And realistically, anybody using
Blogabond.com simply as a place to store and view their photos would
probably better served moving over to Flickr. I think of Blogabond as
a something like a cocktail party. Just a bunch of friends sitting
around, telling their travel stories and showing off some cool photos.
The last thing you really want at a party like that is somebody setting
up the slide projector and running through all 4000 photos of his trip
to Peru. It's all about selectivity, and I think that making it just a
little bit difficult to set up that projector might turn out to be a
good thing.

Jason Kester
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