Graham's Blog

Translucence and Selective Disclosure

The PAOGA proposition, protecting an individual's Personal Information, has not changed from Matt Mower's writeup over 3 years ago which I came across recently.

What has changed is:

• Consumer attitude to data abuse.
• Organisations (public and private) attitude to the costs and risks associated with 'holding' personal data.
• The emerging 'user-driven' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) community.
• Cloud Computing

About fotoLibra

Good overview of fotoLibra from Gwyn Headley

fotoLibra was set up to allow everybody to have a crack at selling photographs for publication. No exams, no interviews, no judging, no criticism, no minimum submissions. Just the power of the market.

It’s completely free, with a few restrictions. If you don’t want the restrictions, you can pay to remove them.

fotoLibra makes the contacts, negotiates the prices, handles all the backroom stuff (invoicing, paperwork, VAT etc) and pays 50% of net receipts. 

Average picture sale value is £51; the photographer gets 50% of that. Biggest picture sale: £2,200. Photographer got £1,100.

We have 345,976 images online, 18,345 registered picture sellers in 162 countries and 5,293 registered picture buyers. We have an online bookshop (an Amazon affiliate) curated by James Lake, formerly of the PC Bookshop.

Our users love us — see these responses to our recent blog postings.