The Deets

Picture 631, originally uploaded by jeremiah_owyang.

I’ve been receiving numerous requests for more photos of Jeremy Elfering. While not all photos of Jeremy are suitable for public consumption, there are probably more photos of Jeremy online than most people realize.

For example, I went through photos posted on Flickr from the CES show and found Jeremy in a bunch of them. I added his name to the photo’s tags, so they’re now available when searching for his name.

BTW, if you see yourself of someone else you know if any of my photos and want to add them as a tag, just become my Flickr friend. That gives you the power to add additional tags.

If you use Flickr and publish public photos, there a very good chance people you don’t know could do things with them. They can look at them, email them, and they can also blog about them.

This led to an interesting encounter on The Deets yesterday and was the motivation behind a post on Technology Evangelist today.

Everyone has a slightly different public/private photo comfort level. Flickr offers users the tools they need to address this.

IMG_0097.JPG, originally uploaded by edkohler.

Jeremy snapped this shot in Sunnyvale, CA just after sunset. Don’t worry, we weren’t hanging out waiting for perfect light.

Shoefiti.com is undergoing some serious upgrades. I’m shooting for having it back online by the end of the year.

BTW, it looks like the term I coined is catching on. People are describing shoes on power lines loaded to Flickr as Shoefiti these days.

This was my first FUH2 photo:

If it’s not immediately obvious what this is all about, try this: F-U H2.

I first heard about this in an interview with one of the founders of Flickr, Caterina Fake, on Geek Entertainment TV. Fake said it was one of her favorite Flickr tags. So on the way to work one day, I passed this H2, gave it an FU, and emailed it to my Flickr acccount. Small things like this make the world a better place.

I don’t think I could eat enough soy to crave an H2.

100_0302, originally uploaded by edisonmoudry.

My latest Flickr friend is also my youngest (Gen-Z?). Edison Moudry has a new Flickr photo account. No word on whether he got help from his dad setting it up, of if he helped his dad with his account.

Edison likes documenting hiking trips in the Seattle area, stuff around the house, and pictures of mom and dad.

Flying Dallin, originally uploaded by zelph.

One of my favorite photo pools on Flickr is the WOW! pool where only photos with a WOW! factor are supposed to be contributed. While that’s a fairly subjective thing (cats? please), there really are some gems. Some of the most impressive photos to me come from places I’ve never seen before, such as exotic beaches, hiking trails, and small cities around the world.

You can subscribe to a pool’s photos by adding the RSS feed URL found at the bottom of each pool’s page.

Cute kid photos are a really questionable submission, but flying kids have serious WOW! factor.

Another interesting feed is photos tagged with the term Minneapolis. Photos of cool stuff going on around town come directly to me in Bloglines through this feed. Cool stuff.