December 2010
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Flickr API Corners: ID to URL
If you have the URL of a Flickr photo, and want the URL of the page containing that photo, here are two ways, one on the website, and one using the API.
(Why would you want to do this? Well, people seem to be good at breaking the terms of service and not linking back to Flickr with a photo. Perhaps it’s been through ffffound or tumblr, or it’s been used on a blog. If that happens, but...
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Flickr API Corners: ID to URL
If you have the URL of a Flickr photo, and want the URL of the page containing that photo, here are two ways, one on the website, and one using the API.
(Why would you want to do this? Well, people seem to be good at breaking the terms of service and not linking back to Flickr with a photo. Perhaps it’s been through ffffound or tumblr, or it’s been used on a blog. If that happens, but...
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Flickr API Corners: flickr.photos.getAllContexts
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This is inspired by Matt Jones’ Hello Little Fella Flickr group. We wanted to do the scoring based on whether you’d added your photo to the group, but it turns out that Flickr doesn’t provide that information in the API very easily.
Actually, that’s not true: you can do one call per photo to gets every pool and set a photo is in. However, the name is arguably part of the...
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Flickr API Corners: flickr.photos.getAllContexts
noticings:
This is inspired by Matt Jones’ Hello Little Fella Flickr group. We wanted to do the scoring based on whether you’d added your photo to the group, but it turns out that Flickr doesn’t provide that information in the API very easily.
Actually, that’s not true: you can do one call per photo to gets every pool and set a photo is in. However, the name is arguably part of the...
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Photos and parties in London and SF
Matt Webb wrote an insightful comment on a photograph of the three principals of BERG at the end of the year, and it’s prompted me to hang some thoughts I’ve had about parties and photography since I arrived in San Francisco.
As Webb says,
we’re in an era of self-marketing, where everything is about the control and manipulation of personal image: dating, social networking, and...
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The Post-Delicious World
The fallout from the “sunset: Delicious” slide continues to echo around. Perhaps because bookmarks are a simple place to start, there are a few people beginning to host them locally; for example, here’s Jeremy Keith’s recent post (quoted approvingly at No More Sharecropping). Meanwhile, Phil Wilson said on Twitter that he
doesn’t really understand why people are...
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“A pre-flight checklist before you hit the “Tweet” button: … Contains a...”
– Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s “before you tweet” checklist (via intercourse with biscuits).
Oh dear. I mean, I know Twitter is many things to many people, and for a while it’s been more about distribution than ambient intimacy, but really- should people be advising that...
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“The snowpocalypse has hit Britain, again, and you’ve still not bought a...”
– … to buy a fucking shovel. And maybe some other stuff.
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“The airwaves ring to the tune of people demanding that somebody - the...”
– Alice Miles in an opinion piece in the New Statesman (via Joe Moran).
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“The Daily Express headlines its why-oh-why piece: “The Coldest Winter for...”
– The Economist’s Bagehot on cold weather and journalistic clichés. It’s very well written and quite amusing. (With a nod to the semi-secret source.)
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“The Wikileaks furore shows us that these institutions of power are slowly and...”
– Zeynep Tufekci in the Atlantic, in a comment piece entitled “Wikileaks Exposes Internet’s Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy”. Well worth a read.
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“During one round of the game, Stephen Fry suggested that...”
– From the section on the Uxbridge English Dictionary in Wikipedia’s List of games on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.
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“Bring them up believing in God and they’ll be good and law abiding. It’s a...”
– Ricky Gervais- A Holiday Message: Why I’m An Atheist in the Wall Street Journal. 