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October 8, 2004
Community of photos
Posted by David Weinberger
Tim Bishop’s got a fascinating post about how the Iraq metatag at Flickr might affect politics and communities:
What happens when Iraqis start posting pictures on a … popular photo portal where it is easy for Americans … to find them? What happens when pro- and anti-occupation Iraqis start posting graphic pictures to make their points? What happens when we have an unmediated, high emotional impact, people-to-people conversation with video and pictures?
What indeed? As Tim suggests, if you want to know, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for the Iraq tag at Flickr.
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1. Jim Taggart on October 10, 2004 10:56 AM writes...
We have already experienced the impact of blogs on the political landscape. The addition of images seems to be a natural evolution. I can see the danger of altering images or metadata in order to portray a specific ideology. In an open-source environment, where anyone can post anything, how does society validate fact from fantasy?
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