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By Pixel y Dixel Next frame.

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Today was my first day volunteering at the San Francisco Botanic Garden! It was wonderful. I have dirt under my nails, grubby knees, a new climbing rose and a To Do list for next week. After orientation around the nursery, Diane asked the four of us if anything caught our fancy. There was a lady with previous gardener-ing experience, a young girl fresh out of school who would rather have been at

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By phitar

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If you've ever travelled into America, you'll know how dedicated the Transportation Security Administration officers are. Perfectly honed machines, occasionally friendly, never caught unawares, they are the very bastion of the war on terror. We take off our shoes and our clothes, unpack our bags, scull our liquids, reveal our cosmetics, rally our anxiety and sweat under questioning for no

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Here are the slides from a little three minute talk I gave at Interesting2008. They may not make too much sense without the notes, but, you know. I was a bit nervous before this presentation, because it's rare that I actually take the opportunity to poke fun at the goings-on in Flickr society. View on SlideShare

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Just thought I'd better write something before I forget everything. London I arrived a few days before my suitcase, it turns out. I am now quite familiar with LHR to city navigation, and lobbed at the unknown, company-travel-system-booked Thistle Hotel in Bloomsbury. I was excited at what the next month would bring: meetings with all sorts of lovely museum-y people, talking at 5 things about

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By Bibliothèque de ToulouseThe wonderful Bibliothèque de Toulouse joined The Commons on Flickr today. Their stream is full of delightful photography by Eugène Trutat, taken in the Pyrénées around 1900.Given that they are our first non-English member, I'm dead curious to see what happens with the tagging and such... Will it be French? English? Both? More?Yee har!

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By Powerhouse Museum CollectionPowerhouse powers along with yet another quintessential Australian scene.

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One of my favourite things about the recent entry of the Brooklyn Museum into The Commons is the simple UI change we made to the main Commons page. Now it displays a random sprinkle of content from across The Commons. We'll be introducing searching and tags and stuff soon. The thing I like so much about this is that with just a little computer-y goodness, we are displaying a "blended collection"

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By hktonywOne of the (surprisingly) many submissions to Landing Around The World.

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By locaburgI'm speechless.

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I went to a debate called "Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress" last night. It was interesting. Niall Ferguson started, explaining the position of the historian. History is a flexible field that vacillates between the micro (dusty letters written) to the macro (empires rise and fall). He spoke of communing with the dead, and preferring their company to the living, of rough repetitions but

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By minusbaby Last week I had a lovely time in Montreal, where I attended Museums & The Web, a ten-year-old conference started by the remarkably forward-thinking team of Jennifer Trant and David Bearman. Reading back over this blog, I realised that I'd neglected to write a note about releasing The Commons on Flickr. We went live back in January, with a pilot launch in partnership with The

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By Powerhouse Museum Collection I forgot to mention that the Powerhouse Museum joined The Commons on Flickr on Monday. I'm excited about this for a number of reasons: They're the first museum to join in,They're the second institution to joinIt strengthens the model of The Commons itself (I was slightly concerned that people thought The Commons was limited to the Library of Congress)There are

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By Mike MonteiroYay! We launched video on Flickr today. I can't wait to see what happens.Congratulations to all involved, and particularly to our super secret beta testers. It was seriously fun to be involved in a "beta" again. Just like the olden days.

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A cultural phenomenon has emerged on Flickr. It is beyond our control. Whispers in David Attenborough voice, crouching low... Can you see it? Resembling the broadcast spawning of colonial coral, there is a proliferation of "come here!", "do this!", "join!" and "you're the best thing eva!" virtual tchatchkes covering photo comments on Flickr. An entirely emergent phenomenon, these "spores"

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By fubuki More of fubuki's wild Passion Play photos, taken in Mexico.... I heard on the radio yesterday that apparently, the bible only refers to the scourging of Jesus a couple of times, for example, in King James, "Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified." (Apparently, scourging was mentioned quite a lot, but not in direct

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By Marja_ and agent 6600

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We're planning something a little bit different for Flickr's 4th Birthday. Yes, WE'RE FOUR. Flickr members will be able to share a photo that will be pinned up in our party space - Flickr Turns 4 - and also, we're hoping that people create little impromptu exhibits in interesting places, using the photos that were submitted to be pinned - Flickr Turns 4 In The Wild. As a tribute to that, and

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Sometimes, I dream of catching a plane dressed to the nines. Certainly, there's comfort to consider, and ease of slipping one's shoes on and off, but it's tantalising because nobody knows anything about me, except for my formal Identity. I've noticed chats on planes often centre around the good old "where are you from," or "what do you do?". Our apparent staples of conversation when you have

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I was up far too early this morning. Dad called late last night about the Family Chat we'd dreamt up for my sister’s birthday. It was scheduled for a couple of hours before the call. Turns out wrangling three siblings in three time zones into the same virtual bubble is no small feat. Bloody Skype can’t do three-way video and none of us had the right version of Flash, so we messed about for at

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On a lighter note, my vox pop of the San Francisco web industry appears to reveal that this is the current endorsement of Hillary: (From an artist crafting things via a schweet web service called a.viary.com.)

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By Xaviero Kairos I'd be curious to know what it feels like in Australia now. Our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, formally apologised to our indigenous population for past mistreatment and indignation, something that was withheld for by the Liberals for (supposed) fear of litigation. (Read transcript of the speech | Watch video) It's pretty clear this doesn't mean that all is reconciled in a flash,

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By SATOBOY™ The Commentators are revolting in the wonderful MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVIL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OUR FLICKR group that spontaneously combusted erupted last Friday. Reminds me of the good old days, when various Flickrites near exploded at the mere whiff of being acquired by Terror Destrukto Megacorp. I feel ever so slightly like a digger. Disclaimer: I work at Flickr, and have absolutely

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By Marcelo MontecinoA few years ago, in Valparaiso, Chile, I bought a German soldier's album of his WWI. It starts in the war, then there are visits home, and finally a trip to South America that ends in Chile.

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