Flicker

Hi -

I'm stoked that I was able to post a picture to my blog. I already had a flickr account so that I could share photos with colleagues who attended an archivist conference in 2007 on Molokai. Previously, I've used Snapfish to post private photos and sent friends the access address. A number of people did not want to register at the site, since they would have ended up getting email from them. A friend on the trip suggested using Flickr, so I've added some photos from various archival field trips to share.

I went to Nancy's blog (http://nancylombardo.blogspot.com/) and saw that an online guide had picked up one of her photos. I had the same thing happen for an online Maui guide. I had tagged the photos with the name of the trip and did not individually identify each photo, so it was mislabeled in the guide. The producers said this had happened with other photos and were going to redo it. I have not heard from them since then, March '08, so working on this exercise reminded me to check out what's going on.

I recently had my hard drive crash, so loading pictures to Flickr is another layer of protection. Too bad I didn't add my most recent photos!