So this was going to be a post about how Getty Imaging has decided to open most of their catalogfor use by the public. I was going to embed an image from them of Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars, to demonstrate how the embed process works. It involves dropping the following block of code into your site, and then you get the image, but it's a lower resolution version, and it links back to Getty (so your users, I guess, can license a bigger version?)
<iframe src="//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/476933715?et=x5aIseITD0yGl_Bw7crYcA&sig=m0ZA49g5fPnfZunrzRW0hIgVabaXOgzYyIS40B5DLEE=" width="594" height="457" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
But in starting to post, I realized that I had made changes to the blog such that I'm not sure I can post raw HTML into a blog post anymore. Oops. So the above might be code, or it might be a picture. I don't know which way it's going to go yet.
Anyway, regarding the whole embedding images business, I'm not really sure what I think of it. I mean, I probably wouldn't post about the Oscars, but I might about a big news event. And if I were doing so, I might want an image. Previously, I would have gone to Flickr and searched their creative commons stuff for something appropriate. Now I guess I might use a Getty image? I dunno - I'm not sure what they gain. Maybe name recognition?