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Flickr is a social photo blogging service invented from the outside in
As I said in a comment to Steve's post, Flickr *is* a blogging service. In fact, Flickr is a social photo blogging service. And it's re-invented from the outside in. Rather than creating a blog service and bolting on photos, Flickr created a service to upload and share photos and then added blogging infrastructure around it. Flickr has reverse chronologically sorted posts, flexible categories through tags and RSS and Atom: all in all everything you'd want in a blogging service! And BTW Steve, if you can influence the Rojo powers that be, I'd love to try out Rojo!
From Flickr to Esther’s to Chance.:
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It's interesting how Esther's Flickr blog is emerging as the repository not only for photos but descriptions and even posts like this one. The resulting metadata combines with the more opaque multimedia forms to create a new cooperating layer of applications. As attention comes to the RSS desktop, I've moved from NetNewsWire to Bloglines and the private beta Rojo, where I followed an RSS search feed created in Bloglines and bubbled up as a new post in my Attention channel within Rojo.
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re: Flickr is a social photo blogging service invented from the
Right, the social part is important: it's effectively a YASNS (Yet Another Social Networking Software) except that there's a purpose behind it, something that a *lot* of people enjoy doing, that is, take photos and share them with their friends and the community and do so easily. But there's also some collaborative categorization going on: by adding someone to you contact list, and allowing contact-list members to tag and annotate photos, you're allowing only trusted members to edit your photos, and the barrier to entry as "trusted" is low enough that it's easy but high enough that you have to offer something good (quality photos) or already be a friend to be added to your contact list.
I add tags sometimes to photos of people on my contact list because there may have been a tag they forgot about (or because it doesn't show up in the feeds for tags I follow when they should). Using tags and pools and sets, and by flagging photos as objectionable, the really great photos get filtered to the top of one's while the not so great ones languish in obscurity (though they are still accessible).
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