Thingy 5: Flickr and Photo sharing

Can I buy an "E"?!? What's with Flick_r? And Organiz_r?

Elision of vowels aside, Flickr is admittedly pretty cool. I had fun finding lots of photos of pretty places that made me want to be somewhere besides in front of my computer. There are so many photos that it's a bit overwhelming to navigate, but then again there are many ways to navigate it. So there. There must be a sea of microchips somewhere to store all the data from these photos, and one cannot help but wonder if, millenia from now when the cockroach people have taken over the earth from the extinct homo sapien sapiens, any of these data will be retrievable and if they'll wonder why there aren't more pictures of cockroaches?

I do like the idea of setting up a "collaborative" Flickr page like we've done for SPL--this could be a good way for an organization, family, or group of friends to share pictures. It seems to me that it would be more helpful for the library to integrate photos into other aspects of its Web promotion (blog, RSS, website, etc.) than to create a separate Flickr group for this purpose. Some suggested tags for the library's Flickr page: "kids," "new books," and "strangely disturbing people observed in the library."

Over and out.