Coffee roaster anatomy/my Flickr addiction
In spite of having gallery installed on this server allowing me near infinite uploads of images, I’ve started playing around with Flickr.
Flickr is ostensibly a site for uploading and sharing photos, but with an astonishingly full featured social networking infrastructure lurking quietly below it. Among the many cool features (like RSS feeds for specific tags, slick slideshows, and a really great comments system) you can place rollover notes onto photos. I’ve taken a photo of the Victrola coffee roaster and annotated it as an example of one of the cool things flickr can do.
Flickr is free, blazingly fast, and potentially addictive. Cory Doctorow’s frequent plugs on boingboing finally pulled me in. I have a half dozen RSS feeds in my news reader grabbing images tagged as “coffee”, “robots”, “mushrooms”, “accident”, and a feed of all the comments made to my photos. The flickr blog is a good jumping off point for exploring deeper.
I predict flickr will be bought by google before the year is out.
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October 12th, 2004 at 5:17 am
I, too, have gallery installed on my server, and flickr kicks its butt. I just bought a pro account and am figuring out how to make flickr my “photos” section. The ease of use, speed, and “just works”-ness of flickr makes even iPhoto look ghetto.
October 14th, 2004 at 6:47 am
I have a question. mabye i’ll discover it on my own, but I’m curious how you include those images from flickr in a vertical strip like that in your blog? is that a wp feature or something i can do w/ php or movable type? just curious!
October 14th, 2004 at 1:27 pm
its a flickr feature buried somewhere in their sitemap… http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne
Just the other day I uploaded some new stuff to gallery and was REALLY wishing i had something equivalent to the Flickr “Organizr” to caption and reorder the album. I will probably still use gallery as a random dumping ground - keeping flickr mostly for images I really want to share around.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:47 am
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April 6th, 2006 at 3:04 am
Nice site.
April 6th, 2006 at 7:26 am
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.
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