Digital photography is compelling for any number of reasons, but just about all of the sundry "photo album" sites have been kind of lacking (I don't even remember the password to get back into half of the albums I've left hanging around in various dark corners of the internet. Flickr combines all of the expected niceties of a modern, internet enabled photo album, with the dynamic character and unpredictability that comes from social software architecture -- and it seems to be an effective conceptual "twist" that makes digital albums as compelling as digital photography has turned out to be.
If course, it also provides an ideal platform for integration with blogs and other syndicated content -- an ideal publishing medium that can now be leveraged with one's unlimited supply of personal digital image content. Feeds for my Flickr PhotoStreams: RSS 2.0 Atom
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