While I don’t have a Flickr account myself (well, I do have but didn’t find the time to upload my pics yet…) I am a big fan of it because for me, everything that is beautiful in life and web 2.0 (literaly) can be found there - community, creativity, sharing etc. Its all there.
There’s a lot of research and conversation around UGC (user generated content) both from academic and marketing point of views. Why we create content is one of the most interesting questions around these days. Take tagging for example. We use it for future retrieval, contribution and sharing, attracting
attention, play and competition, self presentation and opinion
expression among other things. We build and exercise our identities through blogs and profiles etc. and we open ourselves to unknown audiences, unconsciously blurring the boundaries between the public and the private, between the personal and the social. [I wonder if anyone already explored the theme of immortality. While in the past only authors and artists had the opprtunity to immortalise through their art, today, every one has a voice and every one has the opportunity to live a residue of him/herself out there in the endless digital space whether through blogs, through YouTube or the Yahoo! Time Capsule].
Now where was I before I carried away with all these random musings?…yup, Flickr. What I really like about Flickr is all the little communal fun stuff thats happening there. It would be interesting to explore the idea of photos (not of self but extensions of self) as identity markers and as conversational properties (I’m sure Danah has written something about that).
Now take this thing I found today - whats in your bag? To date, more than 4000 people took the effort to expose the contents of their bags to the public, and out of such a silly game, a fascinating personal-cultural image/mirror has emerged - Kind of ‘Tell me whats in your bag and I’ll tell you who you are’.
Flick through the pages, read the conversations around it….ita all about playfulness with a touch of voyeurism (or ’striptease’ on behalf of the bag’s owner….)
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Yeah its a good thought Asi. I cant remember which one. But at the APG event one of the branding companies commented how sites like flickr are where people put up images of what they aspire to be or what they want people to think they are.
I think the opposite end of the spectrum is somebodies ipod. You can find all sorts of terrible music on people’s ipods that you never thought they would be in to
Posted 11 Nov 2006 at 2:40 pm ¶Hey Asi - found Dumpr.net, a nice flickr app on Mark’s Holy Cow blog which I’ve posted on ours: http://www.rmmlondon.com/archive/fame-at-last/
Posted 12 Nov 2006 at 6:24 pm ¶It’s a quite literal interpretation of the user generated quest for immortality in that it enables you to display your flickr photos in famous gallery settings.
Posted 12 Nov 2006 at 6:27 pm ¶Thanks Leo - that is a fantastic app indeed. Couldn’t find anything yet on web 2.0 applications and user generated quest for immortality. I was just thinking how cool would it be to my great-great-great grand child to flick through the archives of my blog (or maybe not…?)
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