Check out my photos from the antiwar rally yesterday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic221/tags/antiwar/show/
Also posted some of them to Indymedia:
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34057/index.php
I’ve been enjoying working with Indymedia Boston lately. Lots of fun people, lots going on! Eventually we’ll be working to improve the web site, and maybe even get a Podcast going for the site. See: http://boston.indymedia.org/
By the way, all these photos were taken with my little Nokia camera phone. It’s quite handy for snapping quick shots while walking around. No need to mess around with settings or fumbling with a big camera. Just hold up the little phone and shoot!
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So last night I finally had time to play around with Flickr – you know, the trendy photo service that lets you “tag” your photos (i.e., personal metadata), and then search by tag to see just your own photos, or everyone else’s too. You can make up any tags you want and assign as many as you want to each photo or group of photos.
The thing that really made me want to try it, was the fact that you can set up an RSS feed for any of your tags. Now that is really cool! So it means that you can provide a feed that contains photos based on a certain subject or word and whenever you add new photos to Flickr with that tag, your readers who have subscribed to your feed will see the new photos.
Here’s my Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic221/
So for example, here are the feeds for:
I don’t have very many photos uploaded yet, but I’ll gradually add them. I can see right now that I’m going to want a paid account…. the free one only let’s you make 3 “sets”, and I want lots of sets. Though of course you could just use the tags as virtual sets, but I like the “sets” feature for grouping photos into albums.
Also, this makes me want to get a “real” digital camera… I only have my Nokia camera phone…. it takes OK photos, but not great or high resolution… it’s very basic. Another gadget I want to buy!
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