In retrospect, perhaps I got a little carried away with my introductory post...I have a tendency toward free association...
Anyway, Flickr is pretty sweet. TXT also has a Photobucket account, and between the two I think Flickr wins. I like the tags idea (the closest thing to this in Photobucket is the ability to change the title of an uploaded image-could probably use the terms in the title as keywords, though), and Flickr seems to encourage much more user interaction than the Bucket, especially in relation to mashups.
So...had a lil' Flickr fun & came up with the items to the right. That FD and his Flickr toys- makes me think ol' FD has a lot of time on his hands...but he comes up aith some neat stuff. The Bead Art mashup has a lot of potential- it would be nice to have some more stylistic options, though.
Mashups? Oh, I get it- cuz you mash 'em together! Aha! Who comes up with these terms? Makes me think of a toddler's potato dinner (Gerber's Cheddar-Vegetable Mashups), or a mud-bound demolition derby. Despite the name, though, I dig the democratic implications of the mashup, which sort of lend themselves to a vision of the Internet as a by-the-people, for-the-people affair. Which isn't exactly true, but stuff like this leans in that direction. This sort of thing is fascinating, because you can, in a sense, see the process of evolution involved- you know, A, B & C are useful sites, then Joe or Jolene Schmoe comes along, mashes them together and makes ABC, a site that's three times as useful while being three times as simple and Presto! A, B & C are T. Rex food while ABC passes along it's source code to the next generation (unless, of course, predators X & Y, also known as Microsoft and Google, gobble ABC up). The cool thing is the fact that anyone can do it, and this increase in interactivity- as characterized by the entire "Web 2.0" thing- seems, for now at least, to be a positive alternative to the one-way nature of the Internet prior to then.
Beats TV. At least until they start installing the brain jacks.
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Little Owen is so cute! Just had to say that when I peeked at your blog.
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