I creat a Yahoo account for this purpose, but have trouble to sign in afterwards. I don't think I will bother to create another one. I give too many personal details on the web recently by signing up with Google, facebook, reunion.com, Yahoo, etc. and start getting junk mails.
It is good for me to learn about Flickr. I heard of it, but never look it up. This course gives me opportunity to explore the site. The image uploaded by the Library of Congress are great. It is a clever way to promote library services and collections. I wonder what is the advantage in using Flickr than their own Website (if the Website suports Web2.0 functions).
"Mesh-ups" looks fun. I can see journalists love to use it to make up things. Since my account is not working, I have not been able to try it out myself. I assume it is time consuming.
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Good stuff Aqua!
I think the reason Library of Congress put their pictures on Flickr is that they are much more visible to the casual web surfer. It also allows the use of tags, comments and other sharing functions without changing the LoC website itself.
Hey Aqua I had trouble with Flickr for a while. If it isn't just a matter of forgetting your password (I use to do that all the time) try signing in to Yahoo itself first. On the right hand side after you have logged in there should be a link to Flickr. If you can get into Yahoo you should be able to log onto Flickr from there. I don't know why I was having trouble with Flickr, but it started behaving when I'd go into Yahoo first and after a while logging into Flickr first would work. Maybe the link between Yahoo and Flickr isn't as strong as they'd have us think. Julanne
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