What Are Your Favourite Flickr Tags?
If you haven't already investigated Flickr, and either are a photographer or love photography, then you owe it to yourself to create an account and post a few photos there. The killer feature right now is the ability to annotate photos with notes, which you can see in action at the photo of my workspace—I've made a significant change to my workspace since taking that photo, announcement of which happens Monday—by hovering your mouse over the photo and over the many boxes I've annotated the photo with. I went a little crazy in annotating, all of which happened in the span of 10 minutes before heading out for lunch, but you get the idea.
The other killer feature of Flickr is tags. They're on-the-fly categorization of photos, and every tag has an associated page, both on a users page and in general. Since I only have one photo on my Flickr page at the moment, it will have serve as the only example, but you can see all the photos I've tagged with 'powerbook' (just one, since there is only one), and all the photos on Flickr by all users tagged with 'powerbook'. Add to that I've been playing with the increasingly awesome photo-viewing app for the Mac called 1001. (The example screenshot is absolutely hilarious, because, as I've mentioned, you can see my Bryght colleagues Boris and Roland drinking from a beer tower. A beer tower!) Every 15 minutes or so, it gives me a stream of photos with the photos of my contacts as well as the photos from tags I've preselected. Right now I have 'me' (because I think think vanity is interesting), 'vancouver' (since I live in Vancouver), and 'love', because I'm a softie. Aww.
Why all this? Well, I want to know what your favourite Flickr tag is, so I can add it to the above list and further not get any work done. On my personal wiki (yes, nobodyloop.com is my domain), I've set up a page to keep track of people's favourite Flickr tags. Only I have edit access to the wiki, so you will have to email me which tag is your favourite. If you write a weblog post about it, I will link to it from the wiki, though I will of course exercise editorial discretion.