{"id":319,"date":"2005-07-21T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-10-09T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:59:29","slug":"a_month_of_flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/07\/21\/a_month_of_flickr.php","title":{"rendered":"A month of Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"

I uploaded my first picks to Flickr<\/a> on the 14th of June so thats just over a month ago.<\/p>\n

I obviously was pretty much sold on it back then already since I uploaded 700 photos in the following few days, but now I am realizing other things about Flickr that was not apparent during my poking around on it leading up to the uploading of photos.<\/p>\n

Mostly the things I’m realizing are about the community on flickr, people really do contribute, comment, make suggestions, post to the forums etc in a very friendly and accommodating way. In short it’s one of the best photo communities I’ve taken part in.<\/p>\n

Some stats on my photos hosted there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Number of Views:<\/b><\/td>\n10380<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Photos with comments:<\/b><\/td>\nDifficult to say, > 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Photos that’s been marked as Favorites:<\/b><\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Photos with > 100 views:<\/b><\/td>\n6<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Number of Contacts:<\/b><\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
People who list me as Contact:<\/b><\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

There are some other interesting stats but I think this paints the picture, when I had my photos on a Gallery<\/a> hosted on my own machine I got loads of hits as well but nothing like on Flickr and those hits were mostly driven from Google and very much a hit-and-run type scenario. No-one left comments or anything, I never had any kind of interaction with those viewers, it’s very different on Flickr and that’s the major selling point.<\/p>\n

Flickr has the concept of contacts, you add them, they get a mail that you’ve done so and they can see your photos and choose to add you as a contact too. There is a special page that shows a stream of photos uploaded by your contacts and also an RSS feed. This is great for keeping track of peoples work instead of just following a blog since people tend to upload only their best to a photoblog.<\/p>\n

Photos can also belong to groups, there are groups for anything you can imagine, so I tend to send photos to groups like People in Black and White<\/a>, these groups also have discussion forums.<\/p>\n

So to sum up, I’m very happy with the $24.95 I spent to get me on Flickr for a year, it’s been great and it’s changed drastically how I work with my photos, even in strange ways like making it easier to publish to my photoblog<\/a> which means I do it more often. I’d recommend it to anyone looking for casual photo hosting for family and friends and for anyone interested in a community driven site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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