Tom’s Two Cents

I got back from an Open Education conference in Dalian, China a couple days ago. Dalian is the most popular tourist city for the Chinese, but you’ve probably never heard of it. Funny how little we know about other countries. Anyway, I took a bunch of pictures of both Beijing and Dalian. Here are some links to some Flickr albums I made from my China photos:

Dalian, China - 2008 Open Education..

Beijing, China - Forbidden City and Houtongs

Great Wall of China

“Temple of Heaven” Beijing, China

Recently, I wrote a post called Letting your Flickr photos wander. Someone saw this post on reddit and asked me if I had a trick to detecting when people reuse my photos on Flickr. The truth is that many people are good enough to send me a note on Flickr to let me know they used my photo. I also set up a Google alert for my flickr username: caswell_tom. That way if someone gives me attribution I get an alert. Here is another case of reuse I found via a Google alert. I’m not a pro, but it’s always fun to see where my photos end up.