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Sooo... I decided to build a comprehensive aggregation of all the great content sites that are free (or mostly free) and host it at ;)
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13 Comments on Easily Find Free Content for your Blogs
Bill- While they are ok with them being used for blogs and websites are they ok with business blogs and websites and some eventhough they have the CC's are not available for use in commercial/ business use blogs/ websites.... That is why I have still shied away from these things unless they are my own photos I have personally taken.
Bill, I bookmarked the site. Will try to visit it later this evening. Sounds like a great to get information. Thanks
Hmmm...maybe I missed something. I clicked on your link, did an image search for "house," clicked on a search result, and they wanted 20 cents for the image. ??? I guess they need to refine that "free" part a bit.
Chris:
It depends on the work - this is why we spend most of our time reading license agreements. Creative Commons allows authors to publish various formats both for and not for commercial work. Here's an example of one where commercial use would be allowed.
bf
Gregory:
That's why I said - "this engine is a youngerster" (code for "alpha test"). ;-) We will weed out the "somewhat not free" content sites based on feedback. However, I searched for "house", got a bunch of results, then refined the search to "Image", and I had 5 free photos to download within 30 seconds. I think it works pretty well.
bf
Interesting info Bill, Thanks for sharing!
Progressive...well done. I like the simple interface, which is in the spirit of blogging > drawing attention to type and content. I wish you the best!
Thanks for the comments about the simple Interface Stefan. It was very hard to keep it clean, but a friend reminded me - "Never underestimate the power of white space." :-)
WOW Bill this is great. I just typed in three words of photos I had been trying to find for posts last month and got two out of the three. This is a big help! I wish I had 1/4 the creative ideas in my head you do! Hope you are well..
Carole:
Glad it was helpful. Many of our blogsite clients are saying similar things, and I'm also now a fan of using content that is being published openly for the benefit of others. Every now and then, drop a note to the creators to thank them, or link to them - they will appreciate the feedback as well.
And thanks for the comment about ideas - I strive to think up new things all the time. We just launched a pretty cool wacky idea - our platform now matches up our clients with requsts from 12,000 journalists looking for experts on subjects they blog about. Eevery day it sends introductions to help our clients increase their business exposure.
My next project - twitrisk.com. ;-) A service that helps big companies assess the risks of their employee tweats.
The connect the blogger to journalist idea is good on two levels. Good for blogger exposure and maybe even help the two 'sides' see that they can work together to each other's benefit rather than each side having to be right lol.
Food for thought ...thanks for sharing,.
Carole -
"... connect the blogger to journalist idea ..."
Yep - this idea is working pretty well. A number of our clients have secured free press. It turns out that journalists really like to interview business people that blog because they have a "voice" and typically experience verbalizing their message and domain expertise.
In the I-can't-stop-inventing category, we recently integrated our Free Content search engine into MyST Blogsite so that our users can search for resources directly from their authoring tools [read more]. ;-)