What Does Flickr Need +
As Andy and I were chilling tonight after a couple of really hectic days, chilling in the beer garden with some pints of cider, obviously flickr soon became the main topic of the conversation. The popular Yahoo photosharing site has been the topic regularly here already. But somehow, flickr needs something more.
Photophlow certainly is a great addition to flickr, but in the end it’s nothing more than _one more social network_. A waste of time.
Unless… flickr had something more…
What flickr really needs are blogs. Yes, one step _back_ and be prepared to the already traditional flickr members backlash, but blogs are needed.
Why?
Not every flickr user will daily post new pictures, but sometimes they might live events which could be directly linked to their flickr presence. Like Andy and I did yesterday. So far the only way to link this up with my flickr account is to write an entry on my own blog. An entry totally independent from my flickr account. And from our mutual social network contacts. Differently said, noone on flickr really is aware about how our firstly virtual social contact now became reality. IRL reality.
Was it worth it? Yes!
Was it wirth blogging about? Frakkin’ yes!
Is it an experience to share with my flickr contacts who only follow our pictures and not our personal blogs? FFS YES!
But there’s no way to do so.
I see your point but I really don’t think we need another place to write blogs. Couldn’t the story be covered under the photos as part of the description or as a description of the set? I mean flickr is a site for posting photos the stories in between do not belong there. I may be getting this the wrong way and have possibly misinterpreted what you mean.
PS: I am not just trying to disagree with you for the sake of disagreeing with you. Just starting a discussion. And you can tell me to fuck off. I won’t take it personally. I’ve known you too long to take that personally. ;)
Why would I tell you to frak off? I see your point and entirely agree. There are too many social networks with blog options. But flickr is maybe the one network where I have other contacts than on most networks, people who don’t really read blogs (many are active in the community forums and group discussion though).
And sometimes there’s a photoless story, even on flickr. And a blog? But no connection between both.