Fifth library whatsit FLICKRn on

Finally a pic on my blog from Flickr. I couldn't find an easy static link to the image; I eventually had to go through image properties to find a link that would upload from the Flickr website using Bloggers url upload tool. I could've saved the image to my pc, then uploaded that way, but it's more convenient to do it straight from Flickr's site (or so I thought). I guess not having a static link allows Flickr to stop bandwidth thievery.

Having keywords/labels/tags is a great thing; instead of a generic search engine spider crawling creepily through a page looking for keywords to index (how does it know what's relevant? And as many many old skool web pages showed, such bots can easily be spoofed), and Googles strategy (unless it's changed since I last heard about it, which it likely has) of ranking results based on the number of sites linking to the page doesn't give people a way to specify what they think their site/post etc is actually about (dredging back to the proto-internet for an example, I have heard of one website that was such an excellent example of bad design that the vast majority of links to it were of a 'what not to do' nature; the actual site I believe was about cooking... wish I could find the address).

Another site I have heard of but hadn't explored is Photobucket; powered by Google rather than Yahoo. Picasa came as a surprise - logging into there showed some pics that I uploaded to another blog I started from the same gmail account : / as it's part of the Google empire it makes sense to run off the same user space as gmail/blogger.

I must say that all the mobile phone (posting and browsing etc from mobile and such - that goes for face book etc as well) options make me jealous. I think I need both a new phone and a perhaps a new country (some options only work with certain - American - mobile carriers, it appears). But any phone that comes with a web browser will do... and a phone account with free data options...