Flickr’s Eyes

I’m a sucker for posts like this one from Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield. If you’re interested in the world and what happens everyday, how can you not be? A flaming car in Paris, riot police in Minsk and kids on a beach somewhere -- “there’s just so much.”

One question: Why are all these great images of the world buried in Flickr’s thumbnail abyss? When are we going to see photos like these woven into the stories we read about protests in France and Belarus?

Filtering and sorting technologies have a long way to go, but consumers are smart. They understand that automated, social beasts like fickr have rude burps. That’s also why consumers love them. They’re the eyes of the world, without the tinted glasses.

Comments

[Jason Spalding]

Riots are nothing new in France in 1789, when a Parisian crowd was demonstrating furiously in front of his palace, King Louis XVI asked, “Is it a riot?” and was answered, “No Sir, it is a revolution.’’