5 October 2008 – 11:15 am
In January I blogged about Flickr Commons — a program whereby Flickr invites cultural institutions to share their library of photos and invite the public to tag them.
Now, the State Library of NSW is the first Australian library to join in.
The curators have selected one hundred photos that they feel capture “quirky and momentous historical […]
Flickr, the online photo sharing site owned by Yahoo! is going to be running what I think is an amazing online project on 8 August 2008.
During the 24-hour period that is 8 August 2008 wherever you are, they are inviting Flickr users to submit 1 photo about their day to a special Flickr group. Flickr […]
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, I was awakened by my little grey cat’s need for affection. Unable to get back to sleep, I got up to use my computer to whittle my to-do list down to size after a recent illness, only to discover our internet connection had dropped out during the […]
21 February 2008 – 12:38 pm
If you have a Flickr account and want to empower other educators to create low-hassle mashups, consider contributing to the public Flickr group “What I love about teaching and learning”.
The photos shared in the group can include metaphorical images or drawings, shots of you and your colleagues (provided you have their permission of course!), […]
18 January 2008 – 7:00 am
Flickr’s blog claims there are now 20 million unique tags on Flickr. To harness that Flickr power, Yahoo!has launched a project called “The Commons” to benefit cultural institutions to share and distribute their work.
As the first pilot project, the US Library of Congress has released 1,500 historic images for which the Library is not the IP […]
15 January 2008 – 2:56 pm
As my research into Second Life machinima begins, I’m finding a out a whole lot about the great resources available in the SL knowledge base itself. I tend to be an immersive learner - diving in first and then taking time out to read the directions.
I was very glad I chose to read directions […]
29 December 2007 – 1:14 pm
As a Flickr addict who uses her mobile phone camera and mobile net connection to Flickr, I was thrilled to see that Flickr has partnered with online photo editor Picnik.
Anyone with a free or pro account in Flickr can take advantage of Picnik’s basic photo editing functionality. And its basic functions are all that […]
