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Thanks to Flickr member fryder2 for reminding me of this photo of a board game, which I took at a museum in Montreal in 2008, and which now takes on a slightly more topical meaning – especially as the game was branded BP…
Thought I should write a quick update on what’s been happening with the Open Plaques project. (A quick re-cap: this is a project to gather data and photographs of all the blue plaques in the UK, a very simple idea which I first explored on Twitter, and then in a blog post here). I first [...]
The hot news from the museum-websites world (admittedly a rather small world) this morning, is that Flickr has launched a Flickr Commons project, where 3000 historic photos from the Library of Congress’s collection have been uploaded onto Flickr for the community to view, tag, comment upon and annotate with notes. The photos are published under [...]
The news that Flickr has introduced content filtering for photos on their site is frankly a bit bewildering. I’m guessing that the aim is to resolve the previous unsatisfactory situation whereby some user accounts were marked ‘NISPA’ (not displayed in searches or public areas). However I can’t see how introducing the three content levels of [...]
As announced today on the Flickr blog (and as reported by TechCrunch), Flickr – the photo sharing site , owned by Yahoo! – has just added a ‘geomapping’ feature to their site. The move follows a fairly long period of community activity to promote geomapping, using third-party APIs and tools along with ‘geotags’ – codes [...]