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Where for art thou, flickr live?
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Stored in: In Situ
Posted On: October 26 2006
By: Bryan Partington
Archival Photo
I've been thinking about flickr live lately.
Practically every waking moment of the day that I'm not thinking about my girlfriend, I'm thinking about flickr live and how it all went wrong.
"Live" was flickr's seed, planted into the seemingly fertile earth of Instancia, land of plenty.
I remember really liking it when it first launched, along with most of my GNE brethren. It served as a stoop for us to sit and chat, share, joke, flirt, swear and kvetch.
As such, it was doomed from the outset.
Flickr Live was remarkable primarily for its lack of popularity, and yet I loved it like no other thing on the web. I'd spend hours upon hours languishing in the oubliette that was the flickr central channel between 1am and 10am EST, keeping a lazy eye out for new users straying into chat, hair trigger set to evangelize.
This was my world, a little bubble in which I felt secure and important. Proud to be part of something when in hindsight i should have felt embarrassed for myself.
People would ask me where everyone else was, where they could find activity. "It isn't that busy right now, but it gets very active in the mornings" I'd tell them, half attempting to convince myself of the claim. It WAS busier during the day, after all .. Though that was primarily due to the cadre of GNE holdouts who would congregate each day in phenomenal feats of work avoidance.
Now I find myself scrutinizing every detail of its failure, every aspect of its design, each feature, the social dynamic .. and charting the shoreline of my own failure in the process.
This analysis has bordered on obsession the past few weeks, my mind consumed entirely with the workings of a past fueled with promise, desperately modeling alternative outcomes, wondering if maybe I wasn't so dense in believing that it could work, if only ..
Otherwise, in In Situ:
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