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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan Lanni" data-source="post: 176747" data-attributes="member: 14629">Aside from the elements that affect professional photographers, here's an aspect of the story I find interesting:I've done a bit of coding and I'm curious how you train a computer program to identify &quot;valuable&nbsp; and newsworthy&quot; images. It certainly couldn't do it based on the pixels contained within the images, and must have something to do with metafile data or the tags/captions the twitter's assign.This reminds a little bit of YouTube after Google took over and started paying individuals for their uploads based on the number of hits they got. On the one hand it turned out a Justin Bieber (assign your own value here), and in other cases scratching my head looking at the viewers &quot;Likes&quot; Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down. Clearly, there's no accounting for some people's taste and you have chalk it up to poor presentation but meaningful content. And there's other cases which leave no way to reconcile viewers appreciation or dissatisfaction of the video.No doubt the popularity contest world of open media will prevail here as well. An interesting tid bit from the story:Some things won't change - there's no substitute for talent, skill and training (and the right equipment?).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nathan Lanni, post: 176747, member: 14629"] Aside from the elements that affect professional photographers, here's an aspect of the story I find interesting: I've done a bit of coding and I'm curious how you train a computer program to identify "valuable and newsworthy" images. It certainly couldn't do it based on the pixels contained within the images, and must have something to do with metafile data or the tags/captions the twitter's assign. This reminds a little bit of YouTube after Google took over and started paying individuals for their uploads based on the number of hits they got. On the one hand it turned out a Justin Bieber (assign your own value here), and in other cases scratching my head looking at the viewers "Likes" Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down. Clearly, there's no accounting for some people's taste and you have chalk it up to poor presentation but meaningful content. And there's other cases which leave no way to reconcile viewers appreciation or dissatisfaction of the video. No doubt the popularity contest world of open media will prevail here as well. An interesting tid bit from the story: Some things won't change - there's no substitute for talent, skill and training (and the right equipment?). [/QUOTE]

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