We are constantly editing and approving images, so the discrepancy most likely stems from the update data having been pulled and compiled a few days before the message went out.

I have the same observation as Eco, but I totally trust Veer in this (more than some other agencies). Another question is the Twitter sweep-stake. I followed the instructions, but how do I know my Tweet will be honored? Does it have to stay on top till the end of June, or can we make more tweets?

Yesterday, I uploaded 41 photos.  I then tried to transfer the FTP uploads to the editing queue.  However, I couldn't work out what was going on....I was looking for some type of progress indicator....to let me know when the transfer had finished.  I didn't get an indicator, so I hit the get FTP uploads again, and after a few minutes, I hit it again.  Consequently, I ended up with four of each photo, so I had to sit here and delete one image at a time.

Yes that is very annoying. The site programming is very basic, probably because Eiric (a nice guy!) does it all by himself. The trick is this: open a second window of SSP and check your upload list there growing. Don't touch the first FTP import window.

Stitching the model releases together isn't a concern.....iStock require them to be uploaded that way, so I already had them ready to go.

Deepmeta does auto stitching. I couldn't imagine uploading to IS without Deepmeta.

But what puzzles me is that FB doesn't have my main email address, to which this spam was sent.

These sites and especially FB have a very sneaky way of doing it. If somebody on your (main) email signs up, FB asks if they want to invite more "friends". FB then asks their email password (for instance on Yahoo) and it explores everybody in their address book and even who sent them email. FB stores these addresses to build a network, and you might be amazed how many people there might be in there you'd rather avoid. FB just doesn't care about any privacy. They want your real name and it's almost impossible to cancel your account.

For Zuckerberg, the boss of FB, his users are "dumb f@cks". Here is a chat session of Zuckerberg with a friend, that asked him how he had so much info about his (then 4000) users. (source Business Insider - FB didn't deny the authenticity)

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SMS
Vriend: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb f@cks.

10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account (Business Insider)
Thanks to this article, I found the very well hidden link to delete my FB account, not just "deactivate" it.

Although they gave me 1/2 year free (for my rants I guess), I deleted my account there yesterday. They are unfit for stock sales as we know it. The Paypal was a disaster. No sizes, no licenses, a lot of window dressing with themes but no meat. Crap turning up on searches, sellers at 1 and at 300$, a buyer's inferno, no unique image ID for integration. I had to stop my integration effort for that. Webdav worked OK for a while, but I had to revert to HTML upload. Too much time lost, especially since they extract private IPTC info. And for 50$, I have my own server for half a year. Waste of time for stock. Gluck.

The upload is painless by FTP. The model release module is primitive. You will have to stitch your model releases together in case there is more than one model in the image. Average sale 1 per month, with 380 images online.

thank you!

Also don't forget you can make trillions of dollars on Veer. Yes trillions! I kid you not.

Did we mention that you can make trillions of dollars by selling your images on Veer Marketplace? That number might be a bit high, but once your images are up on the web site, the sky�s the limit.

http://contributor.veer.com/  
(I'm very modest. A couple of millions to start will do).

i don't have time to go through the forum to find out these answer can someone just let me know how they will pay us for the approved image?

September 15.

Images submitted during the Veer� Dash for Cash Promotion will be reviewed, available for sale and contributors will be notified of number of accepted images by the end of August 2010. Incentive payments will be sent out by September 15, 2010. Images must be available for sale on Veer at time of incentive payment to receive payment.

http://www.veer.com/ideas/dashforcash/

Top professional work and a joy for the eye.

Do you delete the photos that do not go trough your selection or do you keep them all?

I keep them all, except the very bad bloopers and the exposure trials.

For me it used to be the 24-70 L.  It certainly has the best image quality of any lens I own, but I often find I need a bit more reach.  Now I am using the 24-105 more often.

Did you find any quality (esp. sharpness) difference between the 24-105 and the 24-70?

Scientists made an artificial cell. It's alive, and it has completely synthesized genom, made in laboratory.

Not exactly. The cell itself was natural, only the DNA was synthesized, and only the main unit and not the mytochondrial DNA. The info content was also copied from another cell, not designed from scratch. Apart from that, the construction was totally synthetic, yes.

Now it's time for the preachers, the creationists and the religious, climatewarming and green fundamentalists to start yelling booh, sin, Frankenstein. Just like with the advent of the steam train mid 19-th century their brother and sister Cassandras yelled that the cows near the rail tracks would stop giving milk.

In fact, this is just a cheaper, faster and more secure replacement for the technique of recombinant DNA with enzymes used as bio-scissors in vitro real DNA. This latter technique has been around for almost 4 decades. In a previous life, I have been involved somehow with the development of bacteria producing human insulin this way, a protein that benefited countless diabetics that showed to be allergic to animal insulin, that was moreover very costly to extract from loads of killed donor animals.

I've followed this thread since its inception and just thought it was the usual "complaint" vent. However, after waiting almost 2 weeks to have my last batch reviewed, everyone one of them rejected (previously 83% acceptance). 123 consistanly makes up 20% of my revenue so I'm not going to pull the plug on them but will treat them just like Fotolia; no more uploads and no "beg for re-evaluation".

+ 1. But I will delete all my accepted editorials. They are not worth it. Upload is blocked for a wile. Let's see what happens.