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[matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

Damn!  What type of camera phone is that, Tom?  Those pictures are  
the best camera phone shots I've ever seen!  Photos from my Motorola  
RAZR are pretty much useless.


So, at the intersection of posts from Michael Czeiszperger and Ruth  
Suehle, why exactly are folks so drawn to flickr.com?

Like Michael, I prefer personal photoblogs, much like I prefer  
personal weblogs over the MySpace/LiveJournal-type of blogs -- as  
they seem much more 'individual' to me, but the popularity of these  
community sites is intriguing.  Similarly, I agree with Ruth's  
viewpoint that it can be valuable as a more immediate, casual  
presentation space for images.

I think the common logic explanation that potentially "less  
technical" people set-up and use accounts on these sites is not  
exactly correct.  The reason I think so is because most of the people  
I know with flickr accounts also have their own domain, often  
including email and maybe a blog via their domain.  (Most of them  
also work in "tech" to some degree).

So why "outsource" the photo presentation part?

Wouldn't it be relatively similar and easy to set up Gallery or  
Gallery2?  Many hosts today offer one-click installs of these and  
other popular programs.

Are there simply amazing tools or layers of control associated with a  
flickr account?  I see some people offer their photos for download,  
while others obfuscate downloading with a blank .gif image.  This is  
pretty cool, but not necessarily a feature I'm interested in.

Besides ease of use and/or simple uploading, what makes flickr so  
cool?  Is it because everyone seems to have an account?  (Much like  
Friendster was cool before MySpace came along to trounce them so  
unrepentantly).

Curious minds want to know "Why should I have a flickr account?"

Do I just want to be able to direct folks to "my stream" ??

Thanks!
dave m.


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On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Tom Karches wrote:

> On 1/6/06, David Minton <dminton@m> wrote:
> > Sorry I missed the meeting last night. Is there anyone else in
> > Internetworkerland on Flickr?
>
> Took a bunch of U.S.S North Carolina pictures with my Nokia 3650  
> camera phone :
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomkarches/sets/1344252/
> --
> Tom Karches
> tkarches@g