Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Is there a Flickr?

I learned about Flickr while reading the Globe and Mail online tonight. Apparently Flickr is a web service that allows users to post, organize and share photos by making storing the digital images in a database and using the service to move the information back and forth quickly. This is supposedly being hailed by the blogger community as the next step in the internet, but I remain unconvinced. This is partly because when I tried to go to Flickr the address wasn't found. However, Google does have it listed at that address. So where is Flickr? Anyways, definitely something to mull over - there have got to be a million applications/processes that can be redone to take advantage of this technology now that it is maturing... need to think...

On a seperate topic, I was attempting to find a new icon for MSN Messenger the other night on deviantART, specifically trying to find pictures depicting the heoric socialist workers (long story, but I find this particular style of art interesting, in part because it is so overdone, but also the just the how the various elements are shown). I can find many pictures of Che Guevera, the Hammer & Sickle, and other socialist designs (or conversly, fascist pictures, anti & pro-American, etc.) on the website, but almost none of the type I was looking for. I was rather surprised that with such a plethora of socialist icons, that the heoric socialist worker pictures were not to be found. An oddity on the net where almost anything can be found!

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