In March I took a much awaited journey to NYC and took many, many pictures. Several of these photos ended up on my flickr account for all the world to see and enjoy. I assumed no one was really paying attention, but whatever.
While I was in the city, I went to Central Park and took a picture of the Imagine mosaic in Strawberry Fields. Fast forward to June, when I get an email from someone asking to use my photo in their story on NowPublic.com. Intrigued, and not wanting to be a part of some fan fiction about John Lennon and the cast of Battlestar Galactica meeting up in the Park, I checked it out.
Turns out the site is like Digg, but it gives ALL the power to the users. Not only do they rate the stories on the site to make them bubble up to the front page, but they write the stories themselves and gather and submit the photo documentation to accompany the story. It’s not a blog persay, but you determine what’s news, write about it, help others make their “news” all the more meaty for the inquiring public by supplying images and additonal facts, and all this without an editor breathing down your neck.
If your interested in what the everyday person sees and considers important, rather than that journalist/columnist on your more popular news sites, I recommend checking it out. It’s more convenient than a blog aggregator, and the ability to add on to these reports is pretty awesome.
The story someone wanted to use my picture for was a campaign notificaton about the new Ben and Jerry’s flavor, Imagine Whirled Peace. There are now several other Lennon-related photos on the story. Here’s the main link to the site, as well as the link to the John Lennon story/campaign. feel free to add your own content as well.
This is the photo of mine that they used:
I guess the campaign will also include a recreation of the infamous “bed in” with Jerry (of Ben and Jerry’s) and Maggie Gyllenhal reprising the roles of John and Yoko. The ice creams ounds delish as well.
