Permanent Tourist

The personal website of Mark Howells-Mead

Posts about in the media

  • The Orphan Works Bill

    You’ll notice that I’ve made two changes over the past couple of days regarding copyright marking and my privacy settings at Flickr. Firstly, all images which I post from now on will contain a visual copyright notice and a copyright definition in the (hidden) IPTC annotations. Secondly, no-one can download any of my photos from…

  • Apple iPad announced

    Apple announced the new iPad today. My first thoughts on how I, as a photographer and media developer, may be able to use such a device.

  • Brienz Quay – print auction for Haiti

    I am auctioning off a single print of one of my photographs to the highest bidder to support the earthquake victims in Haiti.

  • Choo Choo celebrate 15 years of Subversiv Records

    Bern band Choo Choo celebrate 15 years of their record company this weekend with a gig at the Wasserwerk Club, and they select one of my photos to appear in national Swiss commuter paper 20 Minuten.

  • The Hero

    Where some advertisers choose the “viral” route of making a low-budget film to publicize themselves or their causes via YouTube, others still spend the time and make an effort to integrate some very cool interactivity to ensure that their offering or message gains widespread recognition.

  • The Bear Incident

    Last weekend, reports quickly appeared on Twitter and Facebook, and thence to the local and international press, that a member of the public had apparently jumped over the fence into the new bear enclosure alongside the river Aare in Bern.

  • Death of a cemetery

    Sad news comes today for the family and fans of the “Autofriedhof”: the site must be cleared. Here’s an article about the closure, which I’ve translated from the German article at the Swiss newspaper “Tagesanzeiger”.

  • Ten years of push-button publishing

    On 23rd August 2009, the ten year anniversary of a web service called Blogger passed with barely a blip; only a small handful of news reports show up at Google’s news aggregating service and the world at large has paid little notice to the milestone.

  • Jungfrau Zeitung secures its newspaper business

    The newest version of the newspaper, to which I still subscribe online despite no longer working or living in the catchment area, produced by a small handful of people and covering purely local news instead of falling to the temptation of reporting news from more distant regions, is at least a match for – if…