I’ve been hearing good things over the last few months from the owners of the blogs included in the picNiche toolbars RSS poller, people are seeing the new posts on their blogs quickly and getting involved in the conversation.
There are a lot of other fantastic microstock and photography business blogs I read regularly, but which I cannot add to the toolbar because they don’t fit it’s profile. I’d like to share some of these here for your reading pleasure:
A Photo Editor (APE) is Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men’s Journal and Outside Magazine.Andy Goetze on Stock Photo Industry, Picture Business, Photo Agencies, Professional Photography, Portals, Technology, FootageSome of the most bizarre stock photos you would never buy (would you?) but can’t help clicking on.Created for graphic artists, designers and photographers who want to sell their illustrations and pictures on the webBusiness news, information and resources about or related to the international stock image licensing industrythe creative side of the microstock photography profession, with some excursions in the business side of itThe photography world – the business, the culture, the art, the politics, the technologyCan a casual shutterbug take his craft to the next level, and pay back the cost of his gear selling microstock photos online?Tips, tricks and tutorials all having to do with photography, Photoshop and getting into the stock photo industry.I read most of the above blogs daily, not only providing information, but in many, inspiration and a some heart too 
Toolbar Entries
Due to the nature of the poller built into the toolbar, I’ve tried to keep the list of blogs in there limited to ones which focus primarily on the business of photography and stock, and offer information on the broader industry news and events.
I’ve had to decline a few requests for inclusion recently simply because the suggested blogs were focussed on areas other than the stock industry. So I would like to share what I look for when choosing whether or not to include a blog in the poller or a tool on the toolbar menus:
- The focus should be on stock, microstock or the business of photography.
- Industry news and opinion on current events is prioritised over personal milestones/stats.
- Posts should be fairly frequent, around once a week at least.
- Tutorial sites have been requested several times, but I’ve yet to find a great ‘stock’-focussed tutorials blog (any suggestions?)
Due to the large number of requests I’m planning on including a more flexible version of the poller in a future version with the ability to add your own entries and a directory of suggestions, though it’s probably a couple of months away yet
Do you have a blog, or know of any I’ve missed? If so drop me a comment
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Hi Bob,
great and comprehensive list. I’ve checked with mine and I can say it’s quite the same. Just two blog more that I follow:
http://twcdm.blogspot.com/ by Travis Manley: tips, tricks and tutorials all having to do with photography, Photoshop and getting into the stock photo industry
http://brandelli.wordpress.com/ Brandelli di Fotografia by MilaCroft (it’s in Italian…)
Take care,
roberto
awesome, thought I was missing Travis’ site but couldn’t find the link in my favs, thanks
Hi and thanks for fixing the blog feature (i like a lot) in PicNiche , and for including mine.
Also seeing this post title ‘Blogs.. blogs..’ i was thinking that this article is about the boom in starting by people microstock activities. I started mine about 7 months ago don’t know too much about previous years but still have the analogy to real WallStreet STOCK market boom and it’s ‘end’;) thus hope it’s just by name.
Greetings and waiting for some new features.
Thanks for including my blog, I will keep my stats up to date
& some idea, maybe just add a secondary list with blogs not included now in the toolbar. You save a lot time with that tool and such secondary (RELATED) list would be again very useful. And of course thanks for this great list – a lot to watch!.
Hi Bob! Thanks for including my modest blog about microstock!
As you know I love your bar!!
Hi Bob,
I’d love you to consider my blog – http://fstop57.blogspot.com/ – when you next review sites for inclusion.
Cheers
Alex