Peter Morville at findability.org has just posted "Finding the Common Good." It's a piece about the Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project. Here's the full report to which he links.
Morville adds:
The statistics are impressive, and the analysis of tagging behavior is interesting. And, when you finish reading, you can wander The Commons, an unexpected public good that resulted from this collaboration between Flickr and the Library.
Very interesting.
Mike
This has taken a lot of doing.
I decided to try the second version of the assignment:
...create a Free account in Flickr and use your digital camera.... Upload these to your Flickr account.... Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature.
I'm used to blogging with Blogger, though I usually just upload images from my harddrive or flashdrive.
I thought that all I needed to do was use the Blogger photo upload, with its "image from the web" option. Apparently Flickr doesn't like this. I put my photo URL http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright_crow/2632052926/ into the Blogger URL field and uploaded.
What I got was this:
You have to click on the empty box, and then Flickr asks you to log in.
I'm probably still missing something, but I next tried the other route, starting in Flickr and using the BLOG THIS feature.
The catch here was that I hadn't configured my "external blog" (that is, this one), so I had to do that first.
Hohum....
Then I found out that all my photos were still set for Private, even though I had changed the default privacy setting to Public.
It seems that changing your default only applies to future uploads. I haven't found a way to do bulk resetting of privacy codes (or copyright licensing).
Hohohum....
Now I have to create a blog entry using the BLOG THIS feature.
Bleegh! Flickr creates a new blog entry, so I have to open that one, copy the code for the image, and past it into this post.
Grrrrrrr....
And it forces a default format...which doesn't display quite the way it says it will...and which I can't change from post to post.
Aaaaaaargh!!!
[Can you tell I'm fussy? I like Flickr, but this process is waaay too cumbersome for a lazy...um...hyper-efficient librarian.]
Anyway, here's the photo.
At Mohonk Mountain House, where my spouse Jim and I went for vacation last July, one climbs a cliff (by stairs, of course) to find a watchtower and, behind it, a man-made lily pond.
This is one of my favorite shots from the pond. I usually have it as wallpaper on my PC.
Hope you like it.
I'm used to blogging with Blogger, though I usually just upload images from my harddrive or flashdrive.
