Week 6

My favorite trait of Flickr is the organizational capacity that it has. If I had a lot of pictures I could make use of the ability to create sets and tags so that I can find the pictures quickly; I could also use the photostream option so I can see my pictures in order of uploading to get more of a chronological view. Not only is tagging important to your own searches but it helps to create a community of pictures on a particular topic- of course if you make your pictures private then it won't show up on searches. Tagging is important especially if you have a lot of photos and want to do a quick gathering of all the photos on a particular subject.

The Flickr mashups are so funny. My favorites were the LOL Cats and the Motivator. I tried making a motivation poster, but I couldn't think of a very clever phrase. I did upload from Flickr onto my blog a retro ad that encourages gaining weight because it's funny and reflective of how the ideal body type changes through the decades.

The most interesting thing I learned was how many organizations and people that I am familiar with already have Flickr accounts. Arcadia Public Library already uploads pictures onto Flickr on a very regular basis. Pictures are really important in websites and are almost critical to blogs in my opinion. People love to see pictures in blogs and the library should post more pictures and advertise the Flickr more.