Is it me, or does it look like those zealots of the nofollow tag to reduce comment spam, have indeed got advertisers promoting software to not only comment spam but to also splog?

Then, searching for comment spam will return a stack of adwords ads to prevent the former. The open marketplace at work!

I’ve noticed this more than once over the last few months, so they either haven’t had any complaints, or they are happy to allow these software vendors to spruik their wares, however unethical, using Adwords.

Image: Google results for a phrase familiar with comment spammers.

A few years ago, I had a photoblog. I tried a few different systems trying to find one I liked. Before that, I had a photo gallery (also using a half dozen scripts to trial it), and I’ve also had a Flickr account.

I love taking photos, and I love sharing them. I’m not sure why I find it so hard to find one method of sharing them that I am happy with. There’s plenty of options out there, but none that make me really excited.

Most gallery systems make them look very ‘file and directory’, where you see a stack of thumbnails, click on the thumb to see the larger image, and at the same time, see all of this EXIF and other data, which I personally don’t need to see.

Gallery Software (web based)
Coppermine
Gallery

Gallery Software (offline and web)
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Google Picasa

Then there’s photoblogs, which typically show you a large image, and you click on the image to see the day before, and before that. There’s also the standard blog layout, with an emphasis on the photos, and maybe some text. You can even go the free hosted versions as well.

Popular Photoblog software
Blogger.com (hosted)
Movable Type
Pixelpost
Wordpress
Wordpress (hosted)

There’s Photo sharing community sites popping up everywhere now, after the success of Flickr, however they typically have adwords or banners or some form of advertising to make up for the fact the majority of them are free. Flickr does not allow any layout changes, so that’s off my list (I mean, who doesn’t have a Flickr account?).

Examples include:
Flickr
Photo Bucket
SmugMug
Twango
Zooomr

Then there’s photo printing sites, which allow you to share and have galleries, however their main purpose is selling you prints, hats, etc. They typically all look the same, and they are fairly heavy on the sell.

Examples are:
Kodak Gallery
PhotoSite
Shutterfly
Snapfish
Webshots

What I have been currently working on, is getting a Wordpress theme to my liking, set up to look more ‘photoblog’ than blog. Knowing me, I’ll change it in a few months, however now I’m working on getting the photos uploaded, and then I’ll share what ended up working for me.

How do you share your photographs?

Image: An Australian Flag tattoo on my 3 year old daughter for Australia Day.

A couple of weeks ago, whilst in Albany WA, we visited one of the local museums and my 6 year old son, Davis, pointed to a laundry washboard, and asked me what it was. After my explanation of scrubbing clothes against it to get them clean, with a serious look on his face, he asked me ‘Yeah… but they had Dryers, right Dad?’.

I remembered this, earlier tonight when turning on our new fangled washing machine, and amusing myself with the 18+ wash programs, LCD screen and animated tips and trouble shooting screens.

Image: LCD screen for Fisher & Paykel Washing Machine.