Web 2.0 Revisited: Photos/Imaging

Some how, Flickr is still a very confusing tool for me to use. There seems to be a lot going on with Flickr that would require me to actually spend more than a day playing with all the features to figure out what I can do with it. On the whole, it does seem like a nice place to dump all your photos and organize them in some way that would make it easier to share them with friends. As it is, I just upload my photos directly to Facebook from my phone. :/ I don't take a lot of pictures, so for me this type of service is kind of useless. I have a good place to share photos with my friends. (For now, it is FB, but we'll see how long that fad will last - anyone remember Friendster? I didn't think so.) I keep all my photos private to avoid the creepers online, but just to prove that I actually did go back onto Flickr, I posted a pic from the scifi/fantasy convention I attended over the Fourth of July weekend.


I'm a Zora princess. (Princess Ruto from The Ocarina of Time in girl-form and EGL style.)


One of the cool features of Flickr is that you can actually edit your photos there, rather than having to use a photo editing program and then upload the photos. This is super useful for those of us on-the-go who would like to be able to edit images from any place. You can also upload images to Twitter, Blogger, LiveJournal, Facebook or Tumblr directly from Flickr. Super useful now that we all have a Blogger account, eh?

You can also use the RSS feed to receive updates from all your favorite Flickrers.

PBCLS has a Flickr here, but apparently, they haven't used it yet. :/ Which is a shame, because they could be posting all those awesome pictures we take during our programs that we supposedly use to promote our programs. It would be really cool if the photos on our home page linked back to a Flickr account that showed our patrons all the fun and interesting things we do with them at the library.