Urgent Digital Railroad related communications... re " Digital
Railroad, which is shutting down"
I was just sent this blog entry on DRR - I have no independent
verification of any of the facts purported here...
Others please feel free to post to this discussion
http://digitalrailroad.net/ Â Says
October 28, 2008
To our valued Members and Partners:
We deeply regret to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has
shut down.
On October 15th we reported that the company had reduced its staff and was
aggressively pursuing additional financing and/or a strategic partner.
Unfortunately, those efforts were unsuccessful. Therefore Digital Railroad has
been forced to close all operations.
Digital Railroad has attracted a loyal set of customers and
partners, and we regret this unfortunate outcome. Without sufficient long-term
financial support, the business had become unsustainable.
Thank you for allowing us to serve the photographic community these past few
years.
Please contact Diablo Management Group for additional
information:
DRRinfo@...
Digital Railroad, Inc
c/o Diablo Management Group
1452 N. Vasco Road, #301
Livermore, CA 94551
From:
bounce-11308716@... [mailto:bounce-11308716@...] On
Behalf Of Strobist
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:40 AM
To: Baird, Michael
Subject: Today, on Strobist
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OT, But Critical and Time Sensitive:
Digital Railroad Implosion Info
Posted: 30 Oct 2008 12:06
PM CDT
Please pardon the
OT post. It's a bit of an emergency for many shooters. Thanks.
__________
If your stuff is on Digital Railroad, which is shutting down in such an
abrupt way as to hose its photographers, you have until midnight on Oct 31st
(PST/GMT-8) to migrate your stuff to someplace safe. Even this short time frame
was won of hard negotiation.
This is way off topic for this site, and I have thus far resisted the urge to
go off-niche to cover this story. But I am sure that many readers are
affected, and DRR simply is not giving its shooters time to migrate in an
orderly way.
If you are were a client, act fast -- as in now.
For more info and in-depth coverage:
• Photo
Business Forum, shows exactly how to migrate via FTP (Thanks
much for that info, John)
• Vincent
Laforet, expressing the anger felt by many shooters
• PhotoShelter, just off of a closure of their own, tries to pick up the DRR
pieces with help (they negotiated the extension) info,
offer
• PDN Online
story , with ongoing coverage at PDNPulse
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Nick Turpin Ditches his SB-800s for a
Cell Phone
Posted: 29 Oct 2008 11:00
PM CDT
(RSS and email subscribers may have to click on the post title
to see the video.)
Remember Nick Turpin, who did those beautiful SB-800-lit street portraits
of thriller writers for Arena Magazine?
Now, he has ditched even those and is shooting his current month-long
campaign for Samsung using only a cell phone. No DSLRs, no flashes, no
female assistants holding long poles. And he is not even in control of what
he is shooting -- you are.
Your clicks on each new photo in the the evolving site decide where he is
going next. It is live now, at The Photographic Adventures of
Nick Turpin. You can follow his cell-phone video diary from
his trek via his YouTube
Channel, too.
(Via What's the Jackanory)
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