Ah, Sunday! If you missed the article about Flickr in the Times magazine, check it out now:
http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/in-this-weeks-magazine-sepia-no-more/
If you’re too busy to following the link itself, here’s the two-second insight:
“People dont upload to the Web words and images they had fashioned apart from the Web; they fashion their stuff specifically for online platforms and audiences.”
Duh, you say? Well, perhaps. But as a novice Flickr contributor myself, I was surprised and impressed at the amount of thought, planning, and work that some people put into their Flickr presence. Whether it be creating images that will look fantastic as thumbnails, manipulating the heck out of a picture for dramatic results, developing photostreams, mastering the art of keywords and tags, working the comment thread, or policing copyright violations, the savviest of us are creating communications that make the most of online communications. Thumbnails up!
Voltaire Santos Miran EVP, Web Strategy I've developed and implemented communication strategies in education for more than 20 years now. I think my team at mStoner is the smartest, funniest, and coolest group of colleagues ever, and I can't imagine being anywhere else. Except Barcelona. Or Paris. Or Istanbul. To quote Isak Dinesen, "the cure for everything is salt ... tears, sweat, and the sea."