The excellence that is Flickr and Creative Commons
So I’m doing a presentation called “What’s Driving Open Access?” next month. And because I will happily take a metaphor, run it into the ground, resurrect it, run it back into the ground, then hop up and down on its exanimate corpse just to make the point, I went to Flickr’s Creative Commons search looking for pictures of buses.
Oh. My. Gosh.
I found some awesome stuff. I found more metaphors than even I can shake the proverbial stick at. I found the “rubber meets road” picture. I did. I swear I did. And my open-access pals will appreciate this: I found pictures of honest-to-goodness green buses. I don’t even have to mess with the Gimp.
I’m still looking for the perfect “fell off the back of the bus” picture. (My open-access pals can guess what that one’s for, I’m sure.) If anybody’s got it, or knows who does, let me know. BY license only, please; I’m getting an honorarium for this talk, and I often mod photos.
Flickr and Creative Commons are the greatest boon to the weary presenter ever.