Why use flickr and post to a blog?

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Flickr is strictly a photography site, some blogs won’t let you host photos there, you have to link from an outside source.

business business business

I have different people on my blog than I have on flickr, and I put far more pictures on flickr than I put on my blog. I prefer to keep the different groups separate. For instance, my former daughter in law is on my flickr account, but not my blog. For me, flickr is more removed from the personal things I put on my blog.

I also keep three blogs, one mostly business related, one friends, and one private.

oh boy, here we go…. Twitter is not just about people broadcasting themselves, in fact, most are webby nerdy developers and marketers. But you can’t even talk about Twitter as a four walled space on the web. Facebook has a draw bridge, but I rarely see that data floating around thread data… Twitter however is everywhere and that’s because people are linking it to everything. Think of it like putting up phone lines. But just individual and networks (not organized, government construction). Is it ego to post on MySPace and Facebook? or I should say Blippr or Glue? since those are talking venues and they’re about as different as a Blog and Twitter. Microblogging doesn’t have a residence so it’s not like I go to see you on Twitter, ring the doorbell, leave a note. Nope. In fact it’s like 30% who ever go there and the data is totally bogus anyway. No one thinks of it as a Hello World! space, it’s just sending out data and connecting people based on the fact that they’re doing the same thing, talking nearby, etc… You can’t do that, but you can on a blog. Someone resides there. Unless, you connect it to Twiitter then it’s morphing into something else, just another feed and emphasis on big ego you sort of dissipates.

I just think the behavior is far from ego-centric, it’s total dispersal of self and acknowledges that you are less important, less territorial, and not imaging your holding court, since there’s no there, there. Twitter wires that into you. So they’re technically not even the same thing – Blogs and Twitter. But I made the other arguments anyway… This has been tangential, since I’m losing my energy for this argument. It does get exhausting to defend free/open, public, truly interactive, decentralized web spaces.

OOPS
I’m a total creep! I thought it said Twitter and it totally did NOT – I’m just grumpy and over worked and way too much time (and intellectual energy) defending my interest in Twitter protocols and data/object ontologies (whatever) to phd students who are just as mody as me… So this was just any easy way to go off (as I sit here working on a paper on this topic sort of) AND I just read an annoying article on nyc, which was yet another criticism of social interactivity and “democracy” on the web (and it’s absence, though it’s also not a good thing, even though it’s not here, I totally don’t know who anyone is talking to anymore).

INTERLINKING technologies is a happy thing :-)

But the rambling nonsense I just wrote is not, nor is it social or collective in it’s tone. I feel bad. SO sorry. Please step over my comment above and carry on…

@nmac Your answer sounds relevant to the question, and it is a good one.

@YARNLADY thanks that’s a nice way of letting me off the hook.

Flickr is a great place to store all your pics safely. I have lost photos by hard drives dying and by just misplacing CDs, by having them all uploaded to a photo storing site I know they are always there for me to access.