It’s So Easy Being Mean

I always get a little wary when I receive word that a photo I posted to flickr was used on someone’s blog or whatever. A couple of times, they’ve been used for publications I’d want nothing to do with. Yesterday afternoon, I received such a message. Such is the nature of sharing stuff like that on the internet and licensing it under Creative Commons. The photo in question is this one, taken nearly a year ago on a visit home to the Bronx. It’s a sunset view of Manhattan from Barretto Point Park. I never set out to take the best skyline photo ever, it was the sunset and the setting that got my attention. So color me surprised to find that the photo was included in a blog post entitled “ the World’s Most Spectacular Skylines .” An even bigger surprise was to find enough people dugg the entry to make it to digg’s front page. Normally, I imagine that someone would be thrilled to find something they did (directly or indirectl...