Photozeit Blog

• 2011-07-17

  Reading photography news on your iPhone

  Web browsing is going mobile, and Photozeit is designed to keep you informed while on the move.

  The web site will reformat to the screen you use to view it. This means it is readable on an iPhone, and iPad or an iMac.

  

  To make it even easier to read on an iPhone, you can save the link to your home screen.

  First open Photozeit in Safari: http://www.photozeit.org/

  

  Then select the sharing button in the Safari toolbar, the middle one at the bottom of the screen. Select “Add to Home Screen”.

  

  Select a title, or press “Add” to use the default of Photography.

  

  Next time you want to find out the latest photography news, click the Photozeit icon on your home screen.

• 2011-06-30

  Photozeit indexes over 200 photography sites

  Photozeit now indexes over 200 photography sites, to find the latest news on photography.

  To make this possible, the last few weeks have been focused on improving the stability of the indexing system. There is still work to do as more feeds are added.

  The new challenge becomes about selecting articles. With a small number of feeds, the algorithm is simple. With more articles per day to choose from, the choice becomes more important.

  If you notice photography news that is missed, please let me know either via Twitter or email.

• 2011-06-12

  Photozeit tweets photography news

  Photozeit is now publishing the latest in photography news to Twitter via the @photozeit account.

  If you want daily photography news shown in your Twitter feed, follow @photozeit.

  Each day when the site selects the most relevant photography news to publish, it also sends out the information via Twitter. Each Tweet includes the title of the article, the site from which it came, and the link back to the Photozeit page for the article.

  For example:

  How to Browse Flickr Like a Pro - Thomas Hawk Digital Connection http://j.mp/jw5xLP [via http://j.mp/jVAfQ8]

  The @photozeit account also follows a large number of photographers and selected tweets will also re-tweeted. DMs are also answered if you want to leave private feedback on the site.

• 2011-05-15

  The Beginning

  “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

  — The King of Hearts

  My photographic path started in 2001 with my first digital camera, a 3 megapixel Canon G1 and a 1Gb microdrive.

  At the same time I started reading everything I could about photography. However, there wasn’t that much to read.

  Now, ten years, several cameras and tens of thousands of photos later, the web is awash in writing, podcasts and videos about photography. My RSS reader struggled and I was spending more and more time reading rather than doing.

  From the start of this year while I commute between Uppsala & Stockholm, I started to build Photozeit, a photography news portal. The aim is to highlight what is going on in the world of photography. There is much yet to do for the site, but it now passes a simple test: I’m discovering new things again.

  If you notice news about photography that the site doesn’t show, please send a tweet to @photozeit, or send an email so we can improve.

  — Geoff Wilson