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Productive May Day

Today is May 1, Labor Day in Europe, and thus a holiday. I used it to see if I could get my WordPress MU installation running and actually create blogs which did not work earlier during the week. I had run into trouble when I used sub-domains, but the sub-directories work fine.
The reason behind the [...]

100 out of 365

Today is April 10 which means that the year 2009 is 100 days old. Today also signifies the 100th photo that I took for each day being inspired by the flickr group 2009/365. I had heard about its predecessor 2008/366 from D’Arcy Norman, Alan Levine and Alec Couros. As I did not find out about [...]

Almost half the population

On November 3, 2008, the 3 billionth picture was uploaded to flickr generating 16,762 views for the photo until now. Had I not subscribed to Bryan Alexander’s blog this memorable moment would have passed unnoticed for me. Now I can pause for a second and contemplate a little bit.

If every person on earth had uploaded [...]

Another road sign

pedestrian sign

I was a bit puzzled when I saw this sign for the first time. Does it mean that one is not allowed to walk here between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.? After some reflecting and searching my brain for the rules that I know, I think it means that pedestrians do not solely own [...]

Singleness à la flickr

Profile pages of social networking services can be a mineful of fascinating categories as we have already seen with YouTube. The services want to add a personal touch and not just provide the standard questionnaire to fill in. As I signed up for my flickr account today, I took a look at the profile page [...]