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my flickr jorney
Jun. 14th, 2006 11:12 pmIt is now official - I'm flickr-addicted. So I'm thinking of it and of all the endless possibilities for conducting social recearch projects.
I think I'll start collecting some random thoughts re:flickr. (Subconciously I believe this may help me ease on addiction thing :)).
* There are LOT of gifted amators over there. Today there are 302 photos in my favorites collection and they are amazing. Discovering new authors is fun! :)
* English dominates the web and it's not going to end anysoon. There is a number of Arabic-speakers but I'm yet to see any in my favorite clasters (nature & architecture). Note to self: check their niche.
On a second thought I did not see a single hebrew tag till today, and I went through at least couple of K photos. No russian tags either.
Maybe adding a simple online translator for the purpope of comments reading/writing would help non-English speakers. On the other hand, they say tey already have some 1 000 000 submissions a day. For the free service as flickr (25$/year is virtually nothing for what u get) it's a lot of data to take care about and they are having glitches all the time lately anyway. So maybe they just do not welcome "extra" folks.
* I'm missing an option of labeling and sorting out my favorites - some are great as photographs while others have an interesting subject and at the moment they are all in one heap.
* monkeyc.net says:
"I dont know where the idea this is a democracy comes from to be honest, It never has been and i can be fairly certain it never will be - ive been a forum moderator and admin for over 10 years and ive never seen one democractic one yet that works - attempts to make things so devolve immediately into an utter mess."
* I'd like to have a time record of when did I post a given photo to the specific group. And I want to watch the dynamics of attencion.
I think I'll start collecting some random thoughts re:flickr. (Subconciously I believe this may help me ease on addiction thing :)).
* There are LOT of gifted amators over there. Today there are 302 photos in my favorites collection and they are amazing. Discovering new authors is fun! :)
* English dominates the web and it's not going to end anysoon. There is a number of Arabic-speakers but I'm yet to see any in my favorite clasters (nature & architecture). Note to self: check their niche.
On a second thought I did not see a single hebrew tag till today, and I went through at least couple of K photos. No russian tags either.
Maybe adding a simple online translator for the purpope of comments reading/writing would help non-English speakers. On the other hand, they say tey already have some 1 000 000 submissions a day. For the free service as flickr (25$/year is virtually nothing for what u get) it's a lot of data to take care about and they are having glitches all the time lately anyway. So maybe they just do not welcome "extra" folks.
* I'm missing an option of labeling and sorting out my favorites - some are great as photographs while others have an interesting subject and at the moment they are all in one heap.
* monkeyc.net says:
"I dont know where the idea this is a democracy comes from to be honest, It never has been and i can be fairly certain it never will be - ive been a forum moderator and admin for over 10 years and ive never seen one democractic one yet that works - attempts to make things so devolve immediately into an utter mess."
* I'd like to have a time record of when did I post a given photo to the specific group. And I want to watch the dynamics of attencion.
