Re: [meteorite-list] Need a meteorite picture repository
Hi Michael, Edward, Steve, etc. All of those free photo sites are nice, but there are too many of them and therefore everyone's photos are scattered all over the web. Even if everyone adds a URL link to their photos in an e-mail and posts it to this list, it's a major pain in the butt. That's what many of us don't want. For example, if someone joins our list tomorrow and is looking for photos of Sikhote Alin, they have no way to go back and search through all of the list e-mails for Sikhote Alin photos links that were uploaded to Flickr or Webshots 3 or 6 or 9 months ago... unless there is a search function in our list's archives (I couldn't find one). Even if there were a search function, it would still be a pain to go look at some on Flickr, then go to Webshots, then go to Picassa, etc. Too much jumping around. So, they should all be in a centralized location. Jason, Rob and Norbert all mentioned the Encyclopedia of Meteorites website. From what I've seen on it in just the few minutes that I've looked at it, that DOES seem to be a good place to post meteorite (or meteorite-related) photos, so maybe it has most/all of the features I was inquiring about. I had heard about the Encyclopedia of Meteorites a year ago, but personal photo collections are not what I would expect in an encyclopedia, so I didn't even think to look there. Thanks all! Bob -Original Message- From: Michael L Blood [mailto:mlbl...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 12:23 PM To: Bob Loeffler; Meteorite List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Need a meteorite picture repository (was Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records) Bob, I don't see the problem... There are many free photo sites - Upload your photo, get the URL, put the click-to URL into your Post to the list and there you are. Hundreds do it. The worst Case scenario is you have to copy/paste the URL to your browser. I like Webshots : http://www.webshots.com/ because of the Ease of use and the option to pay a little and expand your capacity, but there are dozens out there - just choose one (I will admit there is at least one list member that cannot seem To get this basic concept, talks about a photo we certainly should Be sure to see - and leaves the URL out of his posts Concluding with ...Enjoy! - enjoy WHAT?) Other than that, how easy can it get, Bob? These sites are Out there - pick one, use it, post to the list. Best wishes, Michael on 12/26/08 8:14 AM, Bob Loeffler at b...@peaktopeak.com wrote: Hi all, I'm not posting this to MikeG's chat group discussion because my idea is not the focus of that discussion. I see only one thing missing from this Meteorite list: A picture repository for list members who don't have websites. We can have all of the meteorite-related discussions that we so desire on this list, but if a member wants to show us pictures of his meteorites, he/she has to use a service like Flickr if he/she doesn't have his/her own website. Flickr and some of the others are nice for general use, but then we have pictures strewn about all over the web and it's impossible to search for them. Not easy for new members (or old members) to view them. What I would like to see is a meteor/meteorite picture storage site that is easy to navigate and easy for people to post their pictures to. It would need to be moderated (e.g. someone posts a picture and caption, then the moderator would need to OK it before it is viewable by everyone) and you would need to be a member of the website (free, of course, but donations would be good) to be able to post (so it would cut down on spammer posts). The moderator would then prevent the few spammer posts to be uploaded. Each member would get his/her own folder (or album) to post pictures into. And maybe they could create more folders within their main folder. It would need to be searchable (e.g. I want to see all Sikhote Alin meteorites). Anyone could become a member, even dealers who already have a website, because they might want to share their personal collection with everyone else without putting it on their dealer website. There would be no advertising on this, but you could add your website URL to the caption of a picture if you want people to be able to easily find your website. There would be NO discussion on the website since we already have a place for that. :-) Just pictures and their captions. It should be able to have it's own website domain name (e.g. www.met-list-meteorites.com). I volunteer to pay the yearly domain name fee if others would share the monthly web hosting fee (I could help with that, too) and the daily work. I am too stretched on other volunteer work, so I can't do much of the daily moderation (which of course could be done every couple of days instead of daily). Is there any website system out there that can do this already? Or is there anyone who could make one? Thanks and Happy
[meteorite-list] Need a meteorite picture repository (was Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records)
Hi all, I'm not posting this to MikeG's chat group discussion because my idea is not the focus of that discussion. I see only one thing missing from this Meteorite list: A picture repository for list members who don't have websites. We can have all of the meteorite-related discussions that we so desire on this list, but if a member wants to show us pictures of his meteorites, he/she has to use a service like Flickr if he/she doesn't have his/her own website. Flickr and some of the others are nice for general use, but then we have pictures strewn about all over the web and it's impossible to search for them. Not easy for new members (or old members) to view them. What I would like to see is a meteor/meteorite picture storage site that is easy to navigate and easy for people to post their pictures to. It would need to be moderated (e.g. someone posts a picture and caption, then the moderator would need to OK it before it is viewable by everyone) and you would need to be a member of the website (free, of course, but donations would be good) to be able to post (so it would cut down on spammer posts). The moderator would then prevent the few spammer posts to be uploaded. Each member would get his/her own folder (or album) to post pictures into. And maybe they could create more folders within their main folder. It would need to be searchable (e.g. I want to see all Sikhote Alin meteorites). Anyone could become a member, even dealers who already have a website, because they might want to share their personal collection with everyone else without putting it on their dealer website. There would be no advertising on this, but you could add your website URL to the caption of a picture if you want people to be able to easily find your website. There would be NO discussion on the website since we already have a place for that. :-) Just pictures and their captions. It should be able to have it's own website domain name (e.g. www.met-list-meteorites.com). I volunteer to pay the yearly domain name fee if others would share the monthly web hosting fee (I could help with that, too) and the daily work. I am too stretched on other volunteer work, so I can't do much of the daily moderation (which of course could be done every couple of days instead of daily). Is there any website system out there that can do this already? Or is there anyone who could make one? Thanks and Happy Holidays! Regards, Bob Loeffler COMETS http://www.peaktopeak.com/comets/ -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of John higgins Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:08 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records Hi Elton, this post is not in any way intended to be a attack, trolling, disparagement, of you or anyone else who feels the same way. And the meteorite working group, would perfer this conversation be OFF-LIST. We don't want this to be a meteorite list issue! Instead of discouraging other people, which you have obvisouly acclompished with flying colors. Come and join in our discussion. Get to know the people you are calling untalented auto salesman, and see if when you are done you still think of us as selfish, greedy self centered folks, who only have their own self intrest at heart. A dicussion is all it is at this point. If the idea gets far, and you still disagree. Then bash it all you want. Our group already stated that we want a private dicussion, you are trying to bash us in a public forum, not very nice. Maybe somebody can make comments on your moral judgement and nature for doing so, but that is not in our nature, so we cannot comment on that. I have already responded to your post in Mike's yahoo chat group. Anybody who is intrested, should go there and comment. You can find my post as well as others at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meteoriteworkinggroup/ Have a Great Day! John Higgins - Original Message From: Mr EMan mstrema...@yahoo.com To: valpar...@aol.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 2:47:31 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records Hello Folks-- Season's greetings. I just wanted to share some thoughts on forming new meteorite interest groups--past empire building in the meteorite world in general and why some succeeded and some failed. Please, no one take this as an attack, trolling,disparagement, discouragement, or a dissing of anyone. It is not directed at any one, although it may have been bumped to the forefront by Mike's recent thread. An honest idea was proposed and I am not per se addressing his proposal in any way so please keep an open mind. On this list we are as close as can be to inclusive(99%) in having a collection of members within the existing meteorite interest niches. As a long time member with observations regarding empire
Re: [meteorite-list] Need a meteorite picture repository (was Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records)
Bob, I don't see the problem... There are many free photo sites - Upload your photo, get the URL, put the click-to URL into your Post to the list and there you are. Hundreds do it. The worst Case scenario is you have to copy/paste the URL to your browser. I like Webshots : http://www.webshots.com/ because of the Ease of use and the option to pay a little and expand your capacity, but there are dozens out there - just choose one (I will admit there is at least one list member that cannot seem To get this basic concept, talks about a photo we certainly should Be sure to see - and leaves the URL out of his posts Concluding with ...Enjoy! - enjoy WHAT?) Other than that, how easy can it get, Bob? These sites are Out there - pick one, use it, post to the list. Best wishes, Michael on 12/26/08 8:14 AM, Bob Loeffler at b...@peaktopeak.com wrote: Hi all, I'm not posting this to MikeG's chat group discussion because my idea is not the focus of that discussion. I see only one thing missing from this Meteorite list: A picture repository for list members who don't have websites. We can have all of the meteorite-related discussions that we so desire on this list, but if a member wants to show us pictures of his meteorites, he/she has to use a service like Flickr if he/she doesn't have his/her own website. Flickr and some of the others are nice for general use, but then we have pictures strewn about all over the web and it's impossible to search for them. Not easy for new members (or old members) to view them. What I would like to see is a meteor/meteorite picture storage site that is easy to navigate and easy for people to post their pictures to. It would need to be moderated (e.g. someone posts a picture and caption, then the moderator would need to OK it before it is viewable by everyone) and you would need to be a member of the website (free, of course, but donations would be good) to be able to post (so it would cut down on spammer posts). The moderator would then prevent the few spammer posts to be uploaded. Each member would get his/her own folder (or album) to post pictures into. And maybe they could create more folders within their main folder. It would need to be searchable (e.g. I want to see all Sikhote Alin meteorites). Anyone could become a member, even dealers who already have a website, because they might want to share their personal collection with everyone else without putting it on their dealer website. There would be no advertising on this, but you could add your website URL to the caption of a picture if you want people to be able to easily find your website. There would be NO discussion on the website since we already have a place for that. :-) Just pictures and their captions. It should be able to have it's own website domain name (e.g. www.met-list-meteorites.com). I volunteer to pay the yearly domain name fee if others would share the monthly web hosting fee (I could help with that, too) and the daily work. I am too stretched on other volunteer work, so I can't do much of the daily moderation (which of course could be done every couple of days instead of daily). Is there any website system out there that can do this already? Or is there anyone who could make one? Thanks and Happy Holidays! Regards, Bob Loeffler COMETS http://www.peaktopeak.com/comets/ -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of John higgins Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:08 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records Hi Elton, this post is not in any way intended to be a attack, trolling, disparagement, of you or anyone else who feels the same way. And the meteorite working group, would perfer this conversation be OFF-LIST. We don't want this to be a meteorite list issue! Instead of discouraging other people, which you have obvisouly acclompished with flying colors. Come and join in our discussion. Get to know the people you are calling untalented auto salesman, and see if when you are done you still think of us as selfish, greedy self centered folks, who only have their own self intrest at heart. A dicussion is all it is at this point. If the idea gets far, and you still disagree. Then bash it all you want. Our group already stated that we want a private dicussion, you are trying to bash us in a public forum, not very nice. Maybe somebody can make comments on your moral judgement and nature for doing so, but that is not in our nature, so we cannot comment on that. I have already responded to your post in Mike's yahoo chat group. Anybody who is intrested, should go there and comment. You can find my post as well as others at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meteoriteworkinggroup/ Have a Great Day! John Higgins
Re: [meteorite-list] Need a meteorite picture repository (was Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records)
Hola Bob, Michael, I would go for either flickr.com (free account gives you 200 fairly high-res pictures - per account, and unlimited photos of even higher resolution if you pay), or the encyclopedia of meteorites site, run by our list's own Pierre-Marie Pele. Have a look: http://encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/ Creating an account is free, though donations aren't frowned upon. I find that webshots and picasa...well, I've never used either, but it seems to me that either they have lower resolution capabilities than flickr - or people simply choose to upload smaller images. Never having used either, I can't say which is true. Regards, Jason On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Michael L Blood mlbl...@cox.net wrote: Bob, I don't see the problem... There are many free photo sites - Upload your photo, get the URL, put the click-to URL into your Post to the list and there you are. Hundreds do it. The worst Case scenario is you have to copy/paste the URL to your browser. I like Webshots : http://www.webshots.com/ because of the Ease of use and the option to pay a little and expand your capacity, but there are dozens out there - just choose one (I will admit there is at least one list member that cannot seem To get this basic concept, talks about a photo we certainly should Be sure to see - and leaves the URL out of his posts Concluding with ...Enjoy! - enjoy WHAT?) Other than that, how easy can it get, Bob? These sites are Out there - pick one, use it, post to the list. Best wishes, Michael on 12/26/08 8:14 AM, Bob Loeffler at b...@peaktopeak.com wrote: Hi all, I'm not posting this to MikeG's chat group discussion because my idea is not the focus of that discussion. I see only one thing missing from this Meteorite list: A picture repository for list members who don't have websites. We can have all of the meteorite-related discussions that we so desire on this list, but if a member wants to show us pictures of his meteorites, he/she has to use a service like Flickr if he/she doesn't have his/her own website. Flickr and some of the others are nice for general use, but then we have pictures strewn about all over the web and it's impossible to search for them. Not easy for new members (or old members) to view them. What I would like to see is a meteor/meteorite picture storage site that is easy to navigate and easy for people to post their pictures to. It would need to be moderated (e.g. someone posts a picture and caption, then the moderator would need to OK it before it is viewable by everyone) and you would need to be a member of the website (free, of course, but donations would be good) to be able to post (so it would cut down on spammer posts). The moderator would then prevent the few spammer posts to be uploaded. Each member would get his/her own folder (or album) to post pictures into. And maybe they could create more folders within their main folder. It would need to be searchable (e.g. I want to see all Sikhote Alin meteorites). Anyone could become a member, even dealers who already have a website, because they might want to share their personal collection with everyone else without putting it on their dealer website. There would be no advertising on this, but you could add your website URL to the caption of a picture if you want people to be able to easily find your website. There would be NO discussion on the website since we already have a place for that. :-) Just pictures and their captions. It should be able to have it's own website domain name (e.g. www.met-list-meteorites.com). I volunteer to pay the yearly domain name fee if others would share the monthly web hosting fee (I could help with that, too) and the daily work. I am too stretched on other volunteer work, so I can't do much of the daily moderation (which of course could be done every couple of days instead of daily). Is there any website system out there that can do this already? Or is there anyone who could make one? Thanks and Happy Holidays! Regards, Bob Loeffler COMETS http://www.peaktopeak.com/comets/ -Original Message- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of John higgins Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:08 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Alternative Meteorite Group Track Records Hi Elton, this post is not in any way intended to be a attack, trolling, disparagement, of you or anyone else who feels the same way. And the meteorite working group, would perfer this conversation be OFF-LIST. We don't want this to be a meteorite list issue! Instead of discouraging other people, which you have obvisouly acclompished with flying colors. Come and join in our discussion. Get to know the people you are calling untalented auto salesman, and see if when you are done you still think of us as
