Flickr/Youtube

This was my first look at flickr and I found it quite interesting. It was highly navigable and the language was chatty and informal. I liked the simplicity of the rules--- 'do play nice' and 'don't be creepy'. Or "If you don't feel that you can abide by our Community Guidelines as outlined above, maybe Flickr isn't for you.' Succinct and to the point. I would imagine that people abuse the rules, but it sounds like flickr does moderate the content, so hopefully they are on top of catching repeat offenders. It would depend entirely on how much content they have to weed through I imagine---which we all know can be considerable. But at least they are attempting it. Hopefully creepazoids, out and out nutjobs and amateur pornogrpahers will go elsewhere.

I will definitely load a picture or two and play round with some photo editing and see what I can create. As to youtube, I use it strictly for entertainment---from the occasionally profound, to the more often inane, it is just silly fun for the most part.

And if I have done this correctly, here is a picture from the public archives that has no known copyright restrictions !!! It is circa 1890 and is of Dunottar Castle, Stonehaven Scotland.