I’ve had an account on Flickr for ages, but never did anything with it. I’ve never really found any use for all the community sites that have come and gone over the past few years, and this just felt like more of the same. But I recently read an article at Wired News that made me see how cool Flickr really is, and I started thinking that I should start playing around with it a bit. Well, today’s the day, and I finally uploaded a few pics. I think I’ll start uploading more and more pics there, and see what kind of feedback I get from it. One of the selling points for the site is that they offer a lot of RSS feeds. For instance, you can subscribe to a feed of just my pics, or subscribe to feeds of certain keywords, say “tokyo,” which will see my pics included in it. There’s probably more fun stuff to do there, so I’ll continue to play around, examining the various features.
Category: Photography • Web
and since I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to my blog, I just host my pictures from flickr … seems to work for my small crowd, and flickr is reliable and easy to use …
The tagging seems fun! And by uploading your pics there it would also save a lot of your bandwidth. :)
I’m also happy to see that Lil is regularly posting pictures there too. I had been missing her works.
When I click the ‘feed of Jean Snow’s pix’ link I just get a page of html.
That feed link is RSS, so it’s something that you copy and then paste in a newsreader (I like NewsFire). I’ve become completely addicted to RSS feeds, and it’s how I access most of regular reads these days (I read your site in my newsreader).
If you want a web page with my latest pics posted to Flickr, you can go here.
How does one get Click Opera working in NewsFire, then?
Click Opera’s RSS feed
http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/data/rss
Good to see you onboard on Flickr, Jean. And you’re there too, Patrick (I had no idea anyone missing my blogging)! What’s your Flickr username?
I’m not signed up on Flickr. I’m just a lurkr. :)
Thanks for the Click Opera RSS link. I’m sure it was somewhere obvious on Momus’ page, but I couldn’t spot it anywhere!
Actually, it’s not obvious at all, and not even listed. I found it because I had heard that you could get an RSS feed for any Livejournal site, and looked up what the structure was to find it.
I’m also liking the Flickr concept, but does it also make thumbnails of a desired size for posting on a blog?
I couldn’t find the answer in their list of features.
Yes, it does. I post at the highest quality, but you can various thumbnail sizes.
Thanks for the info, I’m now there! :) I’ll see how it goes.