Comments on: Adventures in the Blogosphere http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2005/08/adventures-in-the-blogosphere/ Chuck Jordan's Personal Weblog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:53:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Chuck http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2005/08/adventures-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-75 Chuck Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:29:15 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives//2005/08/106#comment-75 Yeah, I spent a long time last night just browsing through other people's pictures, which I realize now is the whole point. It's not so much a photo hosting service as a way to link up photos from everybody's galleries. I've got pictures that are three years old by this point; I kept meaning to put them somewhere online along with descriptions and a travelogue. That was part of the justification for starting this website, even. But I still haven't had the time or inclination to write my own gallery for it, and there's really not much point now. Now I can see how long it takes me to actually put all the pictures up on flickr and assign titles/sets/tags/etc. to them. And I can't justify getting a pro account, either, but I did anyway. I <em>hate</em> bandwidth limits; they make me nervous and I feel like I'm cheating or something. Yeah, I spent a long time last night just browsing through other people’s pictures, which I realize now is the whole point. It’s not so much a photo hosting service as a way to link up photos from everybody’s galleries.

I’ve got pictures that are three years old by this point; I kept meaning to put them somewhere online along with descriptions and a travelogue. That was part of the justification for starting this website, even. But I still haven’t had the time or inclination to write my own gallery for it, and there’s really not much point now. Now I can see how long it takes me to actually put all the pictures up on flickr and assign titles/sets/tags/etc. to them.

And I can’t justify getting a pro account, either, but I did anyway. I hate bandwidth limits; they make me nervous and I feel like I’m cheating or something.

]]> By: Rain http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2005/08/adventures-in-the-blogosphere/#comment-74 Rain Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:48:56 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives//2005/08/106#comment-74 Gotta admit, I loves me the Flickr. I like how easy it is to upload photos. I like how you can leave little notes corresponding to certain areas of your (and other peoples'!) photos. I like the whole tagging thing, and searching the site for certain tags can be kind of amujsing. And I like the community aspect of it. It's just more fun than uploading a photo to my site and letting it sit there all sad and alone for eternity... I don't take enough photos to warrant getting a pro account, at least not yet, but I can see how it might lose its appeal if I actually had to pay for it. And now that Blogger has made adding photos to posts REALLY easy, I rarely use the "Blog this" function on Flickr anymore, although being able to blog other people's photos so easily is also a nice feature. Gotta admit, I loves me the Flickr. I like how easy it is to upload photos. I like how you can leave little notes corresponding to certain areas of your (and other peoples’!) photos. I like the whole tagging thing, and searching the site for certain tags can be kind of amujsing. And I like the community aspect of it. It’s just more fun than uploading a photo to my site and letting it sit there all sad and alone for eternity…

I don’t take enough photos to warrant getting a pro account, at least not yet, but I can see how it might lose its appeal if I actually had to pay for it. And now that Blogger has made adding photos to posts REALLY easy, I rarely use the “Blog this” function on Flickr anymore, although being able to blog other people’s photos so easily is also a nice feature.

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