Not necessarily a good Thing

Hmmm ... I see flickr includes what sort of camera was used among the information it gives about photos. This is very interesting for camera geeks -- but, while I'm happy to share my pics with the rest of the world, I'm not sure I want everyone to know what sort of camera I've got!

I can see that flickr is an excellent way to share photos with family and friends, or even to look for pictures of your next holiday destination, and as back-up storage for personal photos. But I'm struggling to think of libray applications for it.

I could perhaps photograph the text of my copy of Mackie's Ethics, and then when readers come to complain that the confined copy has gone missing again give them the url -- and wait for the copyright police to come calling.

Things get a bit depressing

I signed up to flickr about a month ago. Oh dear, yet another username and password to remember! And uploaded a few of the photos I took in Barmouth a couple of summers ago. Then I looked to see if other people had contributed photos of Barmouth -- up came some artistic and quite spectacular pics, which made me feel quite lowly!