Monday, March 28, 2005
flickr is now owned by Yahoo!
Site SpecificPic Your FriendsPhenomology, folksonomy, and the reification of personal experience made fun, easy, and social
by Julian DibbellMarch 24th, 2005 6:52 PM
A frozen moment, about to proliferateimage: flickr.comTime was, when some drunk guy in a bar challenged you to elucidate the relationship of photographic technology and the reification of personal experience under the conditions of 21st-century global capitalism, gosh, you couldn't even get started without plowing through a stack of books by Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, and assorted other pointy-heads. Nowadays you just tell him to go take a look at flickr.com, the classy little photo-sharing site all the bloggerati are uploading their visuals to. Or better yet, you whip out your camera phone, snap a shot of the guy, key in a caption, e-mail it to your Flickr account, and tell him to go take a look in a few hours, after friends and strangers from around the world have marked up the image with comments on his haircut, his waist size, and the phenomenology of digital media.
Flickr didn't invent online picture sharing, of course, but it was the first such site to recognize itself as much more than a hosting service for personal photo albums. Tricked out with features inspired by the latest fashions in online-software design—post-Friendster social-networking tools, "folksonomy”-friendly image-tagging code—Flickr turned enough industry heads to win itself a $35 million buyout from Yahoo, announced last week. Flickr has also won a devoted following of users hungry to explore the possibilities its Web-centric toolset opens up. It's a place not just for self-display, but for an emergent visual conversation: One popular thread consists entirely, and with a certain random elegance, of pizzas, manholes, coins, and other circular objects centered squarely in the frame. The "Iraq" tag joins snapshots of anti-war protests and Baghdad patrols in a piquant mix. The frozen moment proliferates here, as it has done increasingly since photography was invented, but never before has its social life been such a party.
by Julian DibbellMarch 24th, 2005 6:52 PM
A frozen moment, about to proliferateimage: flickr.comTime was, when some drunk guy in a bar challenged you to elucidate the relationship of photographic technology and the reification of personal experience under the conditions of 21st-century global capitalism, gosh, you couldn't even get started without plowing through a stack of books by Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, and assorted other pointy-heads. Nowadays you just tell him to go take a look at flickr.com, the classy little photo-sharing site all the bloggerati are uploading their visuals to. Or better yet, you whip out your camera phone, snap a shot of the guy, key in a caption, e-mail it to your Flickr account, and tell him to go take a look in a few hours, after friends and strangers from around the world have marked up the image with comments on his haircut, his waist size, and the phenomenology of digital media.
Flickr didn't invent online picture sharing, of course, but it was the first such site to recognize itself as much more than a hosting service for personal photo albums. Tricked out with features inspired by the latest fashions in online-software design—post-Friendster social-networking tools, "folksonomy”-friendly image-tagging code—Flickr turned enough industry heads to win itself a $35 million buyout from Yahoo, announced last week. Flickr has also won a devoted following of users hungry to explore the possibilities its Web-centric toolset opens up. It's a place not just for self-display, but for an emergent visual conversation: One popular thread consists entirely, and with a certain random elegance, of pizzas, manholes, coins, and other circular objects centered squarely in the frame. The "Iraq" tag joins snapshots of anti-war protests and Baghdad patrols in a piquant mix. The frozen moment proliferates here, as it has done increasingly since photography was invented, but never before has its social life been such a party.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
links
http://www.rwhirled.com/landlist/landacc.htm
Thursday, March 10, 2005
The computer is getting everyone in trouble....
Every day there is some type of news concerning the new ethics of cyberspace. That could be a class all together. A group of student just got in trouble for logging in to the admissions files of a college to see if they got in. Even they did they are not now.... weird weird weird. I mean the children of today. Back in my day if we wanted to steal something we us a lock pick. These damn kids are so lazy. get off you ass if you are going to cause trouble.
Rosie O'donald has a Blog. Has the whole ended while i was sleeping.
Okay it is proabably not the end of the world, I mean I kinda like her show and she is good in a few movies. Much better then say Roseanne. Is it good or bad that everyone can blog? Well god only knows right. Some needs to edit the blog and pull out the good stuff. or maybe not, that could get tricky.
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
I have a Flickr account........ oh fun
Questions rolling in my mind, Answers to come with time.
1. WHy the hell can't I buy the new single by the British sea power but anyone in England can?
2. Beta this Beta that?
3. How do you nerdy hippie with good hearts, become greedy faceless villians i.e. Bill Gates?
4. Real stuff vs. E-stuff
5. When is Walmat going to start buying up espace and selling it with a smile?
6. Is there still real free porn?
7. what copy right rules apply to flickr?
2. Beta this Beta that?
3. How do you nerdy hippie with good hearts, become greedy faceless villians i.e. Bill Gates?
4. Real stuff vs. E-stuff
5. When is Walmat going to start buying up espace and selling it with a smile?
6. Is there still real free porn?
7. what copy right rules apply to flickr?
