A recent Cambridge University study, photos deleted from photo sharing sites such as Facebook were still available thirty days later.

According to the BBC, sites like Facebook store photos in one place and their main page in another, which can account for a delay from the time that you delete a photo to actual photo deletion. Seven of the sixteen sites tested, including Facebook, failed the test.

Facebook allegedly denies the findings of the study, telling CNN.com that “when a user deletes a photo from Facebook, it is removed from our servers immediately.”

Whether the findings of the study are accurate or not, studies like these serve as a warning to anyone who posts photos online—make sure that you aren’t posting anything that would embarrass you if your co-workers, clients, relatives, friends, or potential employers saw it.

It searches for Creative Commons licensed photos – images that are
licensed for shared use – and lets you drop them into your posts -
right from your dashboard with just 1 click.

Here are some screen shots:

Pick photos from a gallery of pix, and place into your blog post. You get a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes.

Make sure it’s cool to use – and if “Some Rights Reserved”, it means it falls under the Creative Commons License:

If you haven’t done so yet, download the plugin and have fun (photo) blogging!