Last Wednesday we completed the Flickr assignment during class. It was fun coming up with an idea to tell a story through pictures. We decided to do a funny story about a girl buying items from the IU bookstore and getting the items for free because she was the 1 millionth customer. Not much preparation went into the project other than charging my camera and making sure I had the proper cable. When we took the pictures in the bookstore, it was very easy to do because there were not too many customers in the store. When we returned to the computer lab it was very easy to upload the photos onto Flickr. It allowed us to easily select which photos we wanted and what order we wanted to put them in. Our project came out very well: click here to view it.
Flickr is a creative tool to share user-created content with others. It enables anyone with a digital camera to post pictures they take and share them with friends, family or just about anyone with access to the internet. Users can create photo sets that can be used to showcase photographic talent, review an event, or tell a story to others. Flickr is unique in that everyone who is a member of the website can view each others photos by subject of the photo, popularity, and other search options. This is what makes Flickr different from Facebook and other private viewing photo collection websites.
An interesting impact of sites like Flickr is that web users now have the ability to participate in citizen-based photojournalism. This type of public journalism through photos allows people to capture "news" stories and instantly send them to the internet community. News in this context can be considered either a big local event that occurred or simply something trivial someone has discovered and wishes to share with the world. Flickr allows citzen based photo journalists to break news to the world faster than newspapers, television or radio. This is due to the fact that now anyone can break the news rather than just people in the broadcast/print journalism profession. This is mentioned in the Rebecca's Pocket blog post. Now that people know Flickr exists, people that own digital cameras are more inclined to document what they see and post it to break the news on the internet.
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not sure if this is the right way to go about replying to the comment you left on my blog about Flickr but it will work, haha! I don't know anyone else who uses Flickr either, it think that Facebook and MySpace are more of an all-in-one tool for us since it has photos, communication and tons of other stuff while Flickr is just photos. I think that maybe it is that there are different kinds of people who use the different things, like maybe the people who are more into Flickr want to communicate through their photos alone rather than someone who uses Facebook who might want more of an overall way to communicate with people.
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