Though I haven't followed many in the Japan weblog community to the photo-sharing social network application flickr.com (because I'm very happy and stuck in my ways with Gallery), I am starting to find its RSS feeds very enjoyable.
In the new era of tags, Flickr provides what I suppose would be called tag feeds. In other words, they provide an RSS feed for every photo taken by every Flickr member and then labelled by them with a specific tag. You can find these feeds by doing a search in Bloglines for the tag.
Take Tokyo, for example. If you add a Tokyo tag to the snap of Tokyo Tower you upload and make public on Flickr, it will be put into the Tokyo, Everyone's Tagged Photos feed, and I then get to see it through Bloglines. This means I'm getting a feed showing millions of Tokyo photos. Some are great, some shocking. Some have little to do with Tokyo. One person takes about twenty photos of her cat every day. It's a lovely cat and she photographs it well. Most take landmarks or parties in Izakaya. It's an interesting learning experience seeing the photos others take. I can't tell you how many pictures of Sensoji Temple in Asakusa I've seen in the last two months.
Yesterday I set up a hiking photo feed too. Some amazing photos on offer there. You get much fewer bad photos of mountains than you do of cities. Looking at these photos would make you want to go to the States and try the Pacific Trail.
Posted by Setsunai at January 12, 2005 10:57 AM | TrackBack