Testing Zemanta

I read Blogger Buzz for June 10, 2009 and saw that they recommended Zemanta, which is supposed to help enhance content. So I installed it and am giving it a test run. It should find relevant links and pictures but it didn't find the Buzz article. It did find itself though. It also shows images I might want to use, although I have to figure out what the copyright permissions are.

So now I'll try a few words - Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia, is where I live. Zemanta found the Wikipedia entry, and also a rather useless Google Map so I deleted that.

University of Saskatchewan Library where I worked before I retired - Zemanta found a photo from Flickr which has a Creative Commons license. Note the little popup attribution for the photographer at the bottom of the picture, which doesn't actually link to his Flickr page where he has some very good photos of Saskatoon and the University.

Image by daryl_mitchell via Flickr

This is actually a good photo. The dark area at the bottom of the library is the loading dock. Oddly enough, Zemanta didn't find a link to the library website so I inserted that myself.

So we'll see how good Zemanta is at finding stuff about artists - Marcel Duchamp, for example. Found the Wikipedia article and some photos including this one from Wikipedia, which according to them is in the public domain.

Image via Wikipedia

It's a photo of Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy taken by Man Ray in 1921. It comes from the Philadelphia Museum of Art collection and as far as I can tell is shown in several other places on the web.

I had to rearrange the photos so Marcel wouldn't be in the library space and vice versa. I'm still not sure how much help Zemanta is, but I guess I'll find out in future posts. It does tend to insert links whether they make sense or not and put images in odd places.