Why don’t I care about Flickr?

In General on 27/1/2006 at 10:15 am

Why don’t I care about Flickr?
Because Flickr don’t care about me?
Why is it that I’d rather
Sample my pics through a feed?

Perhaps I’m just not that visual
Perhaps I’m not social enough
Perhaps it’s the same as with podcasts
I just don’t give much of a stuff!

I like some good ol annotation
Or maybe a good ‘un a day
Yeh it’s fun to get all those tags out
But I still feel compelled to say;

I really don’t care much for Flickr
I wouldn’t despair if it died
I’d still get plenty of pictures
I thought I liked it, but I lied.

  1. Is there a melody I should be humming with this?

    Brian 27 January 2006 at 11am

  2. More of a chant… I was thinking of a yellow submarine version but y’know

    James 27 January 2006 at 11am

  3. I don’t get flickr. I think it’s fine for people using free services that don’t provide storage, like blogger. But for people that pay for hosting, why would you want to put your pictures somewhere else?

    EFL Geek 27 January 2006 at 7pm

  4. James, you are so funny… problem was I slipped into a “Cornish” or “Somerset” tainted accent when i read this…

    Oh, have publish’d the 1st verse on my LJ ;)

    Ady 28 January 2006 at 12pm

  5. …working on the melody & backing as we speak, James you wanna “do” the vocal down my place..? Any genre preferences - Rock, folk, down-beat, dub reggee, house, hip-hop..?

    Lindon 30 January 2006 at 11am

  6. Great poem, but poor Flickr! I find it’s very useful for keeping bandwidth charges down, especially when planet sites aggregate my content!

    Donncha O Caoimh 31 January 2006 at 7pm

  7. I think Flickr is great. That has to do with many things. I use it in my teaching as the easies way of explaining and experiencing with folksonomies. It is also a good social networking tool - that probably because most of the people that share my views about where we are heading also have flickr acounts. Also work similar as many other tools such as youtube, del.ico.us .. I request all my students to have flickr acounts and link those with their blogs so the write in their blogs from flickr. They dont have payed accounts I am the only one with pro account. But just to have user name on flickr and have the opportunity to search by tags and blog other peoples pictures is useful.

    Salvor 1 February 2006 at 9am

  8. I think Flickr will cope with the stress. Good point re: bandwidth. Am sure it works for *some* people.. seems to be fairly popular ;)

    James 1 February 2006 at 11am

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