EVERYTHINGALLATONCE

Posted on October 01 2008 by Bryan Partington

Recently, flickr launched a "beta preview" of the new home page and recent activity page. Perhaps the single most common complaint was that the design presented responses to the comments you've made on other people's photos and responses to your own photos in the same interface.

And they say they don't kill here.

Posted on May 15 2008 by Bryan Partington

projectb.com has a galley of striking photos of executions in the mexican revolution of the early 1900s.

Now Winter Nights Enlarge

Posted on January 15 2008 by Brittney Bush

Now winter nights enlarge / The number of their hours / And clouds their storms discharge / Upon the airy towers / Let now the chimneys blaze / And cups o'erflow with wine....

Photoless Flickr

Posted on August 21 2007 by Bryan Partington

My camera broke a few weeks ago. It is up on bricks, gonz0r, kaputski! Which means that for the past month-or-so I've been doing the flickr thing without doing the photo thing, while the camera is in for repair. What's...

Personalizing Image Search Results on Flickr

Posted on April 17 2007 by Bryan Partington

Fancy that, an academic paper about flickr. Flickr is, apparently, sufficiently complicated to warrant serious analysis. So allow me to go back into my closet and put on my serious clothes before we continue. [ ... some four hours later...

Border Clashes

Posted on April 15 2007 by Bryan Partington

Once upon a time, every image on flickr had a light grey border. Not just the photos on the photo pages, mind you, but photos posted to comments and group discussion threads as well. The light grey border wasn't that...

Filter Feeding

Posted on April 02 2007 by Bryan Partington

"Take me to the kittens!" announced the jolly blue button, perched awkwardly above an engorged phallus. "Kittens AHOY!" said I, testing flickr's new content filtering functionality. There have always been insistent, seemingly endless debates about 'censorship' on flickr. In the...

Eye Candy

Posted on March 23 2007 by Bryan Partington

A photographer who I very much respect recently went on a hiatus from flickr. In the ensuing discussion of this departure, mention was made that flickr was very much like a candy bowl where only the prettiest pieces are noticed...

All Sizes

Posted on March 11 2007 by Bryan Partington

So lately I've been thinking about photo sizes quite a bit. First off, flickr has actually implemented the "original size protection" that we talked about on The Ink a while ago. This is good because it means that people will...

Love

Posted on February 14 2007 by Brittney Bush

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

A Magic Donkey Christmas

Posted on December 25 2006 by Bryan Partington

Many, many years ago in the village of Bethlehem - on a peaceful evening and under a sky full of many stars, candlelight shimmered off the straw in a tiny stable. From this stable rose the quiet murmurs of shepherds...

Unlimited Bandwidth.

Posted on December 14 2006 by Bryan Partington

Flickr dropped the 2GB monthly bandwidth cap the other day and now I have more space on flickr than I rightly know what to do with. But then, I've always had more space on flickr than I've rightly known what...

moo review [revoo?]

Posted on November 14 2006 by Bryan Partington

Okay, so a long time ago, in the heady days of October 2006, all of flickr was abuzz with moo.com's mini card promotion. We make a couple of posts about it here on the ink, and even ran an interview...

Where for art thou, flickr live?

Posted on October 26 2006 by Bryan Partington

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...

What's in a Screen Name

Posted on September 28 2006 by Bryan Partington

A top ten list in no particular order.

A Little Pink Dot

Posted on September 26 2006 by Bryan Partington

In the middle of nowhere ......

Authoritarian Geotagging

Posted on September 13 2006 by Bryan Partington

Tags are messy. Leveraging the power of the Folksonomy does not come without its limitations. After all, tags primarily represent the conjunction of a multitude a personal organizational schemes where "organizational" is often an overstatement. This conjunction, most obvious in...

Social Mapping

Posted on September 12 2006 by Bryan Partington

The photo that accompanies this post is of a map on a wall in San Francisco, pasted up in the heart of the 'grubby' Mission district. It marks the otherwise invisible placement of evictions and abandoned housing that permeate the...

Ground Zero

Posted on September 11 2006 by Bryan Partington

 

Would You join a Mob?

Posted on August 17 2006 by Bryan Partington

Psychology has traced the excesses of a mob to the feeling that the victim is not human but is a devil that must be destroyed. This gives the feeling of moral justification.

Self-Portraitr, a Rant.

Posted on July 18 2006 by Bryan Partington

There was a little bit of hubub and foofarah last week regarding a little project project called 'Self-Portraitr' at the Pace/MacGill gallery. From the project's hypocritically right-click protected press release: The exhibition will not only rely on the Flickr community...

The Great Cluetrain Robbery

Posted on July 10 2006 by Bryan Partington

I find the psychology of The Cluetrain Manifesto profoundly disturbing. There's a lot about the 1999 tract that is increasingly and demonstrably true. While its influence on how companies and individuals engage each other on the web can be easily...

Peer to Peer

Posted on July 02 2006 by Bryan Partington

The most interesting thing about interestingness is how it's changed over time. When Flickr first launched its "Explore" feature it was routinely dominated by the same photographers. Day after day. Maybe there's something funny in the donkey feed, because these...

Swim or Die

Posted on June 25 2006 by Bryan Partington

A muggy, late summer evening in Toronto, 2004, and I'm walking west along Gerrard street with a friend of mine and my girlfriend. Pontificating. "Rupauk", I exclaimed to my friend as we crossed Church street, "You have to give Flickr...