Jeremy Cherfas

I had completely forgotten how we used to agree on Flickr tags for an event and then work together to create a shared record. Kevin is right that it ought not to be beyond the technologists to find a way to solve that. Maybe it will take off again too.

Just as desktop publishing didn’t turn everyone into even a half-decent designer, so the democratisation of “radio” doesn’t turn everyone into even a half-decent producer.PESOS from Reading.am.

tl;dr: It couldn’t be simpler. What to do with all that, however, is the bigger question.

So interesting to see some of the changes that are happening at Flickr. I’d more or less given up on it as a place to share some of my images, and now I’m beginning to think it is becoming more attractive again. I’ve been a paying user for a long, long time, without really thinking about it. I’m not too bothered about the “silo” aspects of the site, as I have copies of the images themselves. I suppose I ought to look into grabbing comments, likes and so on, but not with all that much urgency. It’s the images that count. The thing I find most interesting about this most recent blog post is this:

Lastly, we looked at our members and found a clear line between Free and Pro accounts: the overwhelming majority of Pros have more than 1,000 photos on Flickr, and the vast majority of Free members have fewer than 1,000. We believe we’ve landed on a fair and generous place to draw the line. I’d love to see the raw histogram of number of images and videos per user.

So, that’s what an Overton window is. Thanks to Alice Bartlett for prompting me to find out.

Quick thank-you to @fiona for posting the link to Mike Hapgood’s The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

So much to read and think about. And to compare with the Zettelkasten approach to tending one’s garden.

So good.Your machine is a library not a publication device. You have copies of documents is there that you control directly, that you can annotate, change, add links to, summarize, and this is because the memex is a tool to think with, not a tool to publish with. Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden. 

Tried to Like this post, but neither Quill nor Omnibear seem able to do so. I wonder whether that is because there is a hashtag in the title? This post may help me find out.

Leaving Trieste on a glorious day; blue skies and clear. Pity it wasn’t like this the past couple of days, but all in all it was better than expected and the city is beautiful. People said Why are you going? Because it is there. And I’m glad we did.