Simon Willison linked to this and I had to as well. It really is amazing how many people didn’t get the joke. Willison says, “It’s fascinating reading all the complaints on this thread—partly due to different international senses of humour, and partly just because as Flickr became more mainstream it attracted users who never picked up the sense of fun at the center of the Flickr brand.” This is a struggle I suspect every community based site has to contend with as it grows.
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Flickr: The Forum: [what was with the pirates?] Garrrrhhhh!
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, September 20, 2007 @ 09:37 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too) - Google Video
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, March 22, 2007 @ 22:38 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a really great presentation on how to maintain a healthy community of developers in an open source project, or really any collaborative community.
the show with zefrank: waves
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, February 15, 2007 @ 08:01 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Another great Ze Frank piece, a sort of homage to web surfers.
Linux Counter: Home Page
Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 @ 13:33 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
User-Centric Tagging, or, Let’s Throw Away Namespace - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman
Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 @ 22:11 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
interesting essay on the nature of tagging
