1Scan uses Kodak Scanner

One of my commercial interests is a photo scanning service called 1Scan. Towards the end of last year we decided to expand our service from slides and negatives plus some prints, to cover high volume photo scanning. Having scoured the market for a good, high speed scanner we went with Kodak's s1220.

And I'm very glad we did, it's just great. Not only do we love it but so too do our clients. I was pleased when the chance came up for us to do a press release with our new best friends at Kodak. Yesterday the release went out and I was pleased to find out via Google Alerts that it had been picked up by various electronic press release services.

You can see first that came to my attention here.

Ecademy Cold Turkey

For nearly three years I was a paid up member of social networking site ecademy.com. But no longer, today is the first day of the rest of my life.

OK, that's overstating it but I cancelled my membership. Why? Well, nothing against ecademy but it stopped being helpful. When I began I was mainly interested in getting a good Google ranking and ecademy helped. Lately Google have significantly marked down the effectiveness of social network sites such as ecademy and the weighting they give for backlinks.

My personal and business interests drifted towards images, scanning, photo albums etc and that's a very minor area of ecademy which is mainly populated by marketing gurus, personal development coaches, SEO experts (rapidly leaving) and the usual cast of oddballs. Ecademy just stopped being relevant.

And I felt I was becoming addicted. I had the page open in Safari and I found myself commenting on ecademy blog posts in which I really had no great expertise, and not a lot to add.

I'm concentrating on photo, slide and negative scanning via 1Scan.co.uk and also personalised-photoalbums.com (which should be self explanatory).