Gothamist is pleased to announce the addition of four great New York City photoblogs to our list of links- Metroplus, RedElphBear, Lackadaisical, and Overshadowed (where we got the picture above). Gothamist is also organizing our second NYC Photobloggers event at the Apple Store in SoHo, tentatively set for Thursday, September 30th, 2004. If you would like to participate, help organize, or sponsor the event, shoot us an email.
More photoblogging fun: can you guess which NYC photoblog has the greatest number of pixels on display? The answer to this question and more, after the jump!
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one of the most interesting facts from our survey- the average picture size seems to have gone up a lot this year- last year, when we checked the average, it was about 475. the addition of a lot of the single image blogs has brought the average up a lot.
there are also clearly three classes of photoblogs now in existence: the single shot per day, the multishot (about 8 or 9 per day), and the multi-day (like satan's laundromat). i'd guess that most photoblogs would move towards single shot as time goes on, mostly because of bandwidth and serving time issues- but also because most of the people on our list have. not that shooting multiples is necessarily bad for quality- for instance, quarlo posts 18 pictures, but only once or twice a month, and his stuff is widely regarded as the best photoblog in america.
You've left off a few very good NYC photo-blogs. Viva nepotism!
give us some suggestions- we investigate them all.
That pixel stuff is some very, very valuable information. I mean, that is some honors-program senior-thesis quality research.
Man there sure is a lot of player hating on the Gothamist these days!
Can't someone geek out over something they find interesting without getting shit for it?
The whole point of the web is for people to put their passion out there, whatever the fuck it is. I don't understand these people who keep coming back to post retarded-ass shit like "I mean, that is some honors-program senior-thesis quality research." What is up with the bad vibes? Sha! Did the post start by saying "the following is honors-program senior-thesis quality research?" Oh, did I miss that? Anyway, I wrote a senior honors thesis. I read a lot of them. This, actually, is more interesting than a lot of them.
To Jake I say now!
More charts and graphs, if you please!
Rock on, all you guys!
- From "My Haiku" by Me
I so totally win.
Beautiful, dramatic picture featured in this post. great find.
K, I'll fight you for it.
This has shamed me into (again) reducing the number of entries on the front page.
Quantity over quality!
Thanks for the link Jake!
Mike fight the trend, add more to your front page, bandwidth be damn.
You can investigate my blog if you like, but a FAR more deserving one is joe's nyc.
Mike -- don't cut back on the number of shots!
I can't speak for broadband-challenged visitors, but scrolling through a group of related shots at sites like yours and Jake's is a big part of the charm.
(Though hey! Did Eliot (slower.net) start posting only a shot a day??)
jeeze, to think that i just went to 450 wide with the pictures on my site (which is not a photoblog). i'm so slow to adapt.
Thanks for dropping the science, Jake! Let the haters troll elsewhere. The question now is how big is too big? Does a photo lose its context and message when you need to scroll to see it in its entirety?
i think the bigger the better- die, bandwidth, die! i try to keep bluejake's pix in the middle of the size range, because i post 8 per day, and because the bluejake bandwidth eats at gothamist's bandwidth. but i figure by next year i'll be up somewhere around 650px wide, from this year's 585px wide.
There are still some people out there with their resolution set at 800 pixels wide. If you want to be considerate of them, I wouldn't go beyond 700 pixeks wide for the entire page (the browser eats some of those pixels up).
viva (la) nepotism? weak!
as it turns out, i met J&J because they linked to my site... ah yes, that was back in the day when gothamist was still wee and i was looking for an information source to satiate my need for photoblogger, panda and law&order news... ;-)
like conan says: "don't Hate! just Luuuuuuvvv, baby!"
Well, that was a snub.
Pic Patrol is somehow banned by Jake, so the URL is for a non-defunct URL that is redirecting to Pic Patrol.
www.gothamish.com - there's mine. You used a name like mine, I made my logo like yours. It's homage, be flattered! Great work promoting bloggers on your site, love it.
I like this photoblog because he seems to see a colorful side to NYC:
www.greentrabant.blogspot.com
Could you maybe feature a different pic each day from the many NYC photobloggers?
Jake: Another possible reason for the proliferation of one-image-at-a-time sites is that they're easy to do in MT. Nice survey! Have an honorary doctorate.
Hey guys can I be in the club too???
Pixels are one thing, but much of the US is still on dial-up. I'm trying to limit my pics to
OOOPS! My "less than" sign in the previous post was reinterpreted as part of a tag.
Make that "I'm trying to limit my pics to less than 70 k."
A NYC photoblog that I like is very specific, but very amusing: Shiny, Pointy, and Tall
It's pictures of people taking pictures of the Chrysler Building. Enjoy!
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