A New Feature

I thought it might be interesting if I created a place where people could submit a story or their website or a photograph and let their peers vote and add a comment. I’m calling it photo rank and it’s in the sidebar and (here).

I was looking for a program that would allow people to submit portfolios to me on this blog and came across this free software called pligg. I can’t believe how many features it has and I have no idea if it will prove useful or just more of a time suck. I loaded all the photographers I’ve written about to get things started. See what you think.

Comments 21

  1. Christopher Bush wrote:

    Nice! I’m off to a shoot for the rest of the day, but I will definitely post some images tomorrow.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 1:59 pm
  2. D wrote:

    Brilliant idea!

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:09 pm
  3. jeff wrote:

    Great idea! I look forward to looking through everything. Who knows…I may even learn something.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:14 pm
  4. colin pantall wrote:

    Seems to work - you’re going to be inundated!

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:16 pm
  5. TJ wrote:

    Hell yeah, my “still-in-college-and-don’t-know-anything-yet” ass is in as well,

    Just be gentle with me ok? I may require a hug before insertion of the “I know they’re coming” critiques.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:19 pm
  6. Jacob Pritchard wrote:

    Hmmm.. That’s my name on the same list as Antonin Kratochvil, Kurt Markus, Chris Buck… Was that really supposed to happen?

    Well, I’m happy to be the Guinea Pig.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:20 pm
  7. JM Colberg wrote:

    Like a Flickr for pros? It will be interesting whether the discussions will end up different from the kinds of photo discussions that are already so prevalent on the many sites where people can comment…

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:22 pm
  8. Dustin wrote:

    I’m digg’in’ it.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 2:55 pm
  9. Anthony Georgis wrote:

    I’ve been reading the blog for a while now and find both the post and comments to be a refreshing look on the inner workings of photographers and editors. The Photo Rank section could a really cool opportunity to extend that conversation, so count me in.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 3:14 pm
  10. Don Giannatti wrote:

    I’m in, but really hoping that the level of discourse is similar to the comments here. These things can sometimes devolve to name calling hate centers. I love the concept though, so I am in and ready. This could be very cool.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 3:35 pm
  11. Ed Fladung wrote:

    no link?

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 4:31 pm
  12. Ed Fladung wrote:

    oops, disregard pervious previous comment. thank you.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 4:32 pm
  13. Ryan Smith wrote:

    Excellent idea! I’m looking forward to seeing some new work from the many readers of this blog. Hopefully we can all be big kids and get along. I’ll be posting soon.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 4:58 pm
  14. Red wrote:

    nice.
    pligg looks a little confusing, but seems to have a lot of thoughtful features.
    I wish there was one main task that was more prominent than the others, like the voting functionality. it seems to have a lot of things to click on and you could wander around for quite a bit.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 5:26 pm
  15. A Photo Editor wrote:

    yeah I agree to many clickables. may need to just tweak the colors so they don’t all appear clickable.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 5:35 pm
  16. Peter Garner wrote:

    Nice! Yes, it is somewhat confusing but I seem to be up there. I guess you want the usual 10% ?

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 6:12 pm
  17. Doug McGoldrick wrote:

    you are my hero, this is the best photo blog ever.

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 7:42 pm
  18. Sofia Quintas wrote:

    Hi,

    Here’s my “temporary” site http://www.flickr.com/photos/sofiaquintas/sets

    Regards
    SQ

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 8:17 pm
  19. philippe wrote:

    I think this is… How do you say? … cool!

    Posted 14 Nov 2007 at 8:43 pm
  20. Nathan Shanahan wrote:

    Brilliant idea and once again a great service to the industry. Thank you all the way from Tokyo PE!

    Posted 15 Nov 2007 at 7:45 am
  21. Bitter Photographer wrote:

    APE has jumped the shark and has become drunk with his own power and influence.

    Posted 15 Nov 2007 at 2:02 pm

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