Great post on how #Flickr can be used in local government by @danslee http://bit.ly/a2AXeh
– Paul Bradshaw (paulbradshaw) http://twitter.com/paulbradshaw/status/27839234440

A guide by Gavin Wray

Interesting observation on Bandcamp of how their artists are using "albums" as buckets into which songs go.

"What exactly constitutes an album is rapidly evolving... Rather than treating albums as immutable collections of tracks, lots of you treat albums as open containers. Containers for song-a-day/week projects, explorations of particular musical styles, or just general works-in-progress."

Reminds me of Flickr photo sets which people either use as one-off collections of photos which will never be added to or themed collections which build over time. Bandcamp have added RSS feeds to their albums, as Flickr have to photo sets. Seems counter-intuitive at first but actually makes perfect sense. Albums are dynamic things.

Handy for when someone posts a link to the image file and you'd really like to fave/comment/blog with a proper linkback.

The Guardian is running an online photography club using their picture desk editors to help readers develop their skills. It integrates with a Flickr group. Worth investigating how they're running it and any issues that emerge.

Photos from BARG

I once walked across London (Waterloo to Camden) on Christmas morning and it really is as eerie as this. <i>via <a href="http://www.kottke.org/09/01/abandoned-london">Kottke</a></i>

My attempts at buying dirt cheap medium format lenses on eBay that could be bodged into a tiltshift lens for my SLR came to nothing. I have no patience to do it in Photoshop. So this three step online tool will suffice marvelously should I feel the desire to turn my photos of cities into photos of toy cities. <a href="http://abrinsky.livejournal.com/88946.html">Abrinsky has more</a>.

Ooh, this looks to be good. Heather is the community manager at Flickr and the work they do there in community management is fascinating. <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/29/onthejob.DTL">Here's a brief insight</a>. October 24th, 2.30-3.30 pm. I can't make it myself but I highly recommend you do.

Retro rockabilly dude I know through Flickr is blogging, I see.

Runs from Monday 11th to Sunday 17th August. Which, by golly, is next week.

A rather snazzy browser plugin that lets you fly through search results for photos and videos. Also has a version for websites which I intend to have a play with. via Tom Horton.

a blog-hub for people in Birmingham who use internet stuff. Lovely name!

with photos and materials from his Sites of Special Social Interest