A taste of FlickrFan
FlickrFan, like all rivers of news, is about flow. In this case it’s a flow of pictures, from your contacts on Flickr, from AP and AFP, and from anyone else that you know that provides a feed of high-def pictures.
I like to view the pictures on a big-screen TV that’s hooked up to a Mac Mini, but I also use it on my desktop, and various laptops — no matter where or how you watch, it’s an interesting way to view the news.
Then I thought, why not scroll the pictures through a web page, one every few seconds? So last night I put it together, on an experimental basis, and it’s pretty interesting! It’s just a taste of what you get with FlickrFan, but it doesn’t require any software other than a web browser.
http://show.flickrfan.org/
Click on the link and kick back for a few and let the pics scroll by. Today the news is mostly the Olympics and General Musharraf of Pakistan (he resigned). Last week there were lots of Russian tanks. Tomorrow I bet there will be hurricane pics from Florida. Watch out cause sometimes the pics are not work-safe, usually not because of sex, rather because of blood, even death. But that reflects what’s actually happening in the world.
Thanks to two very fine organizations for their support: AFP for their fire-hose of wonderful news pictures, and WordPress.com for hosting the pictures and providing bandwidth. I couldn’t afford the hosting myself.
Hope you like it!
Update: Interesting to see Boston.Com going in this direction too.
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