Tone and I are experimenting with a new blog on Shutterchance. It's a new project, that is still developing and have some bugs, but has lots of potential.
Tone is also trying a new programme from Adobe called Lightroom. I've not tried it yet - I need to put aside some time to have a good look.
We are still blogging on atypical. We create this blog ourselves using frontpage and have a webhost. We publish to an old domain that we Tone used to publish a website for a friend's band called Texas Flood on. We pay for the atypical.me.uk domain, but haven't got enough space there to migrate the whole of our photoblog over to. But we have now run out of server space anyway.
This has led to me spending quite a few hours transferring some of our galleries of photos over to flickr. We have atypicaltravel which is photos of our travels in the UK, travelatypical which is our overseas travel photography and atypicalblog which is general stuff, in particular performance, plants and portraits. They are all free accounts and so there is a low monthly upload limit and we can only have 3 sets in each account. We are thinking of upgrading to a pay account but as flickr is such a huge company with so many accounts, we are don't get much benefit from being part of the flickr community compared to say Shutterchance. It is easy on Shutterchance to get good feedback from other bloggers - that is the aim of the project.
So - your views would be welcome.
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If your aim is to be seen by lots of people, and you have a lot of images to post, I suggest you have as many accounts as possible, in as many different places as possible, and keep each one for a specific purpose. If you provide links between them all, then when someone comes across one, they can then find the others.
Provided that you supply RSS feeds for each one, it wouldn't matter how many accounts you have. People could keep track of new images you published to any of them without having to visit each one in turn just in case.
If, on the other hand, you feel that a community of like-minded users is the most important factor, then finding the right site is crucial, even if it means spending money to get in there.
I'm coming to the conclusion for my own webhosting needs that while free sites are marvellous for basic stuff, and especially when starting out, it's likely that you have to pay for a more specific level of service or range of functions.
That wouldn't stop you keeping the free sites going as well, if you wanted to.
Thanks for your suggestions Alec - I have had a couple of problems with Flickr deleting a load of photos from sets. I guess that's what happens when you have a free service.
Shutterchance seems quite good so far....
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