I had completely forgotten how we used to agree on Flickr tags for an event and then work together to create a shared record. Kevin is right that it ought not to be beyond the technologists to find a way to solve that. Maybe it will take off again too.
"Are podcasts a wasteland? (with a post script about Kurt Wagner) | CultureBy – Grant McCracken"
Just as desktop publishing didn't turn everyone into even a half-decent designer, so the democratisation of "radio" doesn't turn everyone into even a half-decent producer.
PESOS from Reading.am.
How to download all of your Flickr photos (and metadata)
tl;dr: It couldn't be simpler. What to do with all that, however, is the bigger question.
Feeling good about the changes at Flickr
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So interesting to see some of the changes that are happening at Flickr. I'd more or less given up on it as a place to share some of my images, and now I'm beginning to think it is becoming more attractive again. I've been a paying user for a long, long time, without really thinking about it. I'm not too bothered about the "silo" aspects of the site, as I have copies of the images themselves. I suppose I ought to look into grabbing comments, likes and so on, but not with all that much urgency. It's the images that count.
The thing I find most interesting about this most recent blog post is this:
Lastly, we looked at our members and found a clear line between Free and Pro accounts: the overwhelming majority of Pros have more than 1,000 photos on Flickr, and the vast majority of Free members have fewer than 1,000. We believe we’ve landed on a fair and generous place to draw the line.
I'd love to see the raw histogram of number of images and videos per user.
2018-11-01
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So, that's what an Overton window is. Thanks to Alice Bartlett for prompting me to find out.
Quick thank-you to @fiona for posting the link to Mike Hapgood’s The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
So much to read and think about. And to compare with the Zettelkasten approach to tending one's garden.
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral | Hapgood
So good.
Your machine is a library not a publication device. You have copies of documents is there that you control directly, that you can annotate, change, add links to, summarize, and this is because the memex is a tool to think with, not a tool to publish with.
Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.