There’s a discussion over in the flickr ideas forum going back and forth about the concept of putting user driven location relevantancy rating thingy into the mapping system. http://www.flickr.com/forums/ideas/29106/ This seems to be in response to people dropping 20 or so photos of drunk people in a pub onto the map. The drunk people could [...]
Three Hidden(ish) Flickr Map Features
Posted on October 31, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt
Being mainly; placenames in the URL, microformats and geoRSS, and by ‘Hidden’ I mean ‘less known about or obvious’. http://www.flickr.com/map/[some place name] I’m pretty sure this is undocumented anywhere, well other than here now. You can fire up Flickr maps focused on places by putting the placename in the URL. This works best with cities, [...]
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Surveillance culture
Posted on October 20, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt
All the surveillance cameras in the UK should just be wired into the cable TV network and let everyone watch everyone else.
Tim just posted a post about another post over at O’Reilly Radar about the artist Hasan Elahi whose work centers around tracking and photographing his everyday movements.
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The worst time in the world to pickup blogging again
Posted on October 17, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt
But no worse than any other time in the last few months, well maybe slightly worse because I’m going to be offline for a week starting on Saturday, anyway… Surprisingly I’ve had a fairly constant stream of email asking me why I’d stopped and the really simple answer is that Real Life took over. When [...]
