geeked.

so. true. it. hurts.
[Via Veronica, via Mashable, via Guardian UK]

Big Totoro Originally uploaded by jblank.
wicked colored-water mosaic made by schoolkids in Japan… anyone else a Miyazaki fan?

This is friggin’ sweet. Yay for hiring Dan Catt and delivering this gorgeous map UI. Here’s how to geotag your photos.
Any geobloggers.com users will be happy to know that Flickr will automagically prompt to import your geotagged photos.

Entering A Road Rage Zone Originally uploaded by garyturner.
“got your nose!”
from the excellent stick figures in peril Flickr group; one of my all-time favorite groups.

Oil Protest Originally uploaded by bradborg.

Eat My Dust, Sonny! Originally uploaded by Beefus.
kickass.

SXSW 2006 (Sunday) Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.
or maybe this one…

today’s specials: wireless internet w/corn Originally uploaded by doctor paradox.
this pretty much sums up sxsw-i ‘06 so far.

Inside the Checkpoint Charlie Museum Originally uploaded by La Stregadelnord.
Wanted for Flickr:
* Contact sets and Group sets so I can start making sense of too many of both. I could make sets of new contacts I want to follow, old timers I want to keep track of, RL friends whose lives I want to keep […]

Come on, you know you wanna.

I dug Netvibes when it first came out, and they’ve recently added a couple of super cool features: a Flickr photos block and a Writely module. This kind of plug-in architecture and service aggregation into a dashboard-like interface is incredibly useful — I’m changing the home page in all the browsers I use regularly (4 […]

Fabienne, clearly, is AIM Originally uploaded by tmd.
hehe… this was my weekend. 50 bloggers, most of whom had never met face to face, get together in nyc to wreak havoc on AOL’s offices — besides sharing our knowledge and love of blogging and like, working together, and stuff. plus bringing the vegetarians to two barbecue […]

Lots of stuff from the portals of late:
* Yahoo launches Yahoo! podcasts and integrates blog search with news search (as well as tying in Flickr and My Web 2.0 results… yummmmmy search goodness)
* Google adds tagging and goes to Washington.
And in related news, Sergey Brin is an Agent.

What started out as an attempt to simplify Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 meme map turned into this collection of thoughts on Web 2.0.
The irony that there are more categories and tags attached to this post than actual content is not lost on me, btw. Viva, Web 2.0!

I’m reprinting this from the Social Software Weblog, where it also lives:
This has been brewing for a little while now, and Marc’s post prompted me to chime in with an agreement that the best way to go at this point for a Web 2.0 company committed to new openness is to support open identity standards. […]

Since I installed Jerome’s freakin’ awesome keywords plugin I’ve been going back into the archives now and then and tagging a bunch of old posts. The result is turning out to be rather beautifully this tag cloud, which paints a damn fine picture of my core interests since starting this blog. The weighted list magically […]

Get yer red hot Flickr tag cloud mullet, and duke it out between the tags with flickrTagFight!

DSC00599 Originally uploaded by b.e.n..
Okay, so what’s about 8 bazillion times cooler than the Emmies or the Golden Globes or any A-list parties or any of that other cool kid crowd crap? That’s right, it’s the Flickies! They’re going on now, so if you’re a Flickr-ite, you should go check out all the friggin’ […]

It is my new mission in life to destroy all semblance of productivity and usher in an era of infinite play. To that end: go ye forth and geotag.

What are they trying to do, completely destroy any semblance of productivity? As if there aren’t enough interesting things going on already, thank you very much. When the hell am I supposed to get any work done?
It’s totally and completely random that I happened to stumble onto my own 15 minutes of fame as […]

Okay truly, it’s been building since the acquisition of Flickr. But the rollout of the My Web 2.0 social search service turned my head again. I even went whole hog and started playing with the My Yahoo! portal, which is something that’s always turned me off for one reason or another (usually the UI — […]

Okay, this is nothing more than raging idle speculation, but I live for this stuff. Anyway, I have this crazy idea that Yahoo will incorporate some Flickr-ness into their video search and make some sort of service for video sharing. Wishful thinking, perhaps. But it could make a fine complement to open video aggregators like […]

So I finally had a chance to check out Google’s new personal portal offering, and I like it. It’s taking heat because it’s “simple.” I like simple. Del.icio.us is simple. Flickr is simple. They’re my favorite sites on the web right now.
What I really dig about it is the drag and drop feature. Cowabunga! It’s […]

Web 1.0 Summit: My Garage, San Francisco Originally uploaded by hotdogsladies.
I laughed. I cried. This photo was better than cats. Comments are priceless on this, too. Go read ‘em.

So RIAA be damned — I really want a Flickr-like interface for my music collection. I want to be able to tag and browse, and remix selections into personal playlists (sets) and publically collaborative playlists (groups). Will there be a magical day when these huge corporations wake up and realize they could take advantage of […]

So the rumours have been circulating for a while, but a post on the Flickr blog today confirms Yahoo has bought Flickr. I’m leery whenever the small and good gets bought out by the big and unwieldy, but Caterina’s words help me remain optimistic. Congrats to the Ludicorp crew for all their hard work — […]

Suddenly I’m wishing it could have been Google acquiring Flickr, after all. Oh well. Maybe I will grow to love Yahoo.

I’ve been drilling down through the plentiful discussions on folksonomy, tagging, and controlled vocabularies - oh my! Suffice it to say - there’s a lot going on.
I had drafted a bunch of thoughts on this, none of them complete or eminently grokkable, and then when I saw this post by Joshua Porter, my cognitive restlessness […]

I am still hooked on Marc Canter’s concept of the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator. Think of it as a local node that lets us have the best of both worlds: the awesome informative and communicative power of the distributed internet, and the centralization/aggregation of those bits of information created by, or most relevant to, an individual […]

Holy taggregation, Batman - this is far out!! It threatens to belong in all of my blog categories…