I've also learnt more about the -clasm suffix, particularly in terms of biblioclasm. There's myriad examples in history of bookish destruction throughout history. It's not that corporate death is necesarily always a political or destructive act, but, particularly with digital information, the vast deletion swathes could be considered somewhat "clasmic."

"I loved Flickr once, in the way that I'm sure that people once loved Compuserve." (I still love Flickr.)

The PayPal Inc. veteran took some of the $10 million he made in 2002, when EBay Inc. bought the online payment service, and started financing some of the biggest success stories of today’s consumer Internet industry: social network Facebook Inc., user-submitted news site Digg Inc., photo-sharing service Flickr and blogging-tools powerhouse Six Apart Ltd., to name a few. Companies in which he made early investments have sold for a collective $1.4 billion, and he has many more in the pipeline.

The Commons is not just one of the finest achievements on Flickr, it’s a shining example of just how great the web can be. If the project dies because of the idiotic actions of some short-sighted bean counters at Yahoo, it will be a great loss for you, me and our culture.

My trust in Flickr has been shaken. I’m beginning to think that entrusting Flickr with my photos, my data and my memories might prove to be an ill-judged decision.

(It would be unfair to give anyone affected by the lay-offs special treatment.) It's not just my treatment I worry about here. Such a sudden movement makes it especially hard to continue the program effectively, at least for a while. So silly. I sent a few tersely helpful emails before my email account was closed. Couldn't resist. Don't let The Commons die, you buggers! Can't you see how wonderful it is?!?!?

juggling clubs

photos taken walking through the neighborhood - note to self do more of this street photography - note to self what's wrong with our camera?

So what now? I have no idea. I am not angry. I am not feeling vindictive. I am flattered and amused. This isn’t like that Urban Outfitters incident. I don’t actually feel wronged. I do feel that some designer for the Paul Smith brand committed an embarrassing act of laziness. This should not be excused and I imagine they will be dealt with accordingly. I don’t get a ton of blog traffic but I would be surprised if this didn’t eventually get back to the Paul Smith organization. And Mr. Smith, if you are reading this, Lance and I have always wanted to spend a week in London. Oh, and I am a 42L.

2006 article on how various systems let you pivot from place to place along legs of a triangle (still thinking this through myself)

Currently, we have ten job queues running in parallel. At creation, each job is randomly assigned a queue and inserted — usually at the end of the queue, but it is possible for certain high-priority tasks to jump to the front. The queues each have a master process running on dedicated hardware. The master is responsible for fetching jobs from the queue, marking them as in-process, giving them to local children to do the work, and marking them as complete when the child is finished. Each task has an ID, task type, arguments, status, create/update date, retry count, and priority. Tasks detect their own errors and either halt or put themselves back in the queue for retry later, when hopefully things have gotten better. Tasks also lock against the objects they’re running on (like accounts or groups) to make sure that other tasks don’t stomp on their data. Masters have an in-memory copy of the queue for speed, but it’s backed by mysql for persistent storage, so we never lose a task.

The single biggest factor in changing our relationship with Flickr has been taking the time to set up publishing for photos taken by mobile phone. It's really quite easy. Just go to the email tab in your Flickr account and make note of the unique email address for you to post. Then pick up your phone, create a new contact named Flickr and enter that email for the contact. Now take a photo and send it by MMS (Multimedia Message Service) to your buddy Flickr. Like magic, that photo will be published to your Flickr account. The subject line of the email will be the title, any text in the body will be a description. Knock yourself out, it's super fun. I don't know why it took us so long to figure out how this works, but we're betting that many of you haven't yet either.

This mobile photo uploader is designed to offer the same features and functions as the desktop computer version. And, because of the familiar BlackBerry smartphone keyboard, menus and prompts, it’s easy to learn and fun to use.

You need to have a culture and mores and a sense of this is "what people do here." If people greet each other and are helpful, and stomp on trolls immediately and keep the trash in the trash cans, that becomes what the culture of the place is. And that sc

More specifically, web search innovators all need to think through what makes results "interesting" for a given domain. I like what flickr has done in calling out "interestingness" as a quality worth searching for, and leaving it as a playground for explo

a quote from a caterina fake interview on cbc with tod maffin; don't see the actual audio on the net right now

data mapping generates maps from flickr and delicious tags; here's what a2b3 looks like. (lots of pictures of lunch)

Photo set on Flickr of ArbCamp using post-it notes to "digg" session events, and lots more photos from the event held at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI. OH NOES! THEY BE COMERSHULIZN MY BARCAMP VALUZ!

BE MY FREND PLEEZ. but on which system?

"punk rock robodonuts in the market"

There are no photographs of the station. If you have pictures of this location, then please upload them to Flickr (detailed instructions) and add the two tags 'wxtagged' and 'wx:metar=karb'. If the picture is of the weather station itself, then please als

StickerBooks: 90 Stickers - in a book!

what are you carrying?

jose gives us all a view. 30-40 people

18 in line in Ann Arbor, Liberty St.

neat effects, neat guy

I know of limited pockets of people with the skills to do the hard work of querying the vast array of information, objects, and raw data then make something of value of it. But, there needs to be more of these people getting trained as designers with soli

Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Our approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites (a), and automatically computes each photo's view

a flock of seagulls

i love web site colophons. "The website is built on Wordpress and includes many little modifications of the PHP code. Pictures are served via Flickr. Geolocation coordinates are provided to better serve your understanding of context."

google street view flash application cracked, tools to use the data

teh!

# We downloaded all 6,288 images, scraped the metadata from the html pages, and embedded the metadata in the .jpg headers. These images are low-resolution and contain a watermark, and were all previously available on-line.
# The images were uploaded to F

take a picture and send it instantly? now that i have a camfone this is worth a try. (though flickr has my love)

Do you have a stack of books (or other things) to read? Post them here, with comments and links! (via boing boing)

flickr's mobile site

nice origin story of twitter and an original design, on paper. paper! this rocks.

dodgeball founders quit google, announced on flickr and twittered repeatedly.

pool for photos from festifools

myra takes pictures of festifools, great shots of a great april fools day parade

Q: How do you spend your workdays?
Caterina Fake: My nephew asked what I do for a living, and I told him I write e-mails.

Google Maps + Flickr mashup all done with a URL, no code required. Google Maps now supports GeoRSS so that you can overlay a GeoRSS feed onto a map directly and use it to annotate.

post photobooth to flickr in one step

This is a frightening level of meta, surely you realize.

MC: I think they're fly-fishing gloves in theory. But they give my pinhole fingers ...
HD: ... is it just the index and thumb or the other ones as well?

hawkexpress has some iconography to mark items in his pile of index cards system; trying to find Unicode equivalents of same for the net.

A typical search problem is evaluating and comparing search results across multiple search engines. Here is a wireframe design of a federated search engine composed of widget-like components.

Lou and MJ emptied their freezer, so we had blueberry sauce on our pancakes this morning.

jim rees photo of the deconstruction of frieze

oooh, pretty

triple tags = machine tags = not quite rdf in tags

eric pulls off a brilliant page aggregated from flickr of the most interesting photos of the ice storm. new blog.

this is generally true for other online communities, not just flickr. how to be interesting? be interested.

this needs to go to the vacuum egroup for jlawler

lots of good links here on how to build inexpensive homemade digital picture frames w/discarded or ultracheap components.

use s3 via "bitbucket" library to push all your photos from Flickr onto Amazon S3.

mmm, food

Valdis Krebs leads a photo-essay cafe crawl in Cleveland. Ann Arborites, get our your cameras!

getting things done applied to your keychain

a tiny signal to do an important task, from John Hritz

"Most companies are an unnatural bundle of three different kinds of businesses - customer relationship, product or service innovation and commer- cialization, and infrastructure management," says Hagel. "The economics, culture and the competences for each

squared circles et al

function over form, not a photoshopper in sight, and dense with links instead