Flickr and CC

[beige_alert]

I have a lot of photos up on flickr, nearly all of them under Creative Commons license, and it's often interesting to see what uses people make of some of them. I noticed recently in the stats that this photo of an old hard disk drive and a CF flash memory card was used on Wikipedia, for this article about MiniScribe, the company that made that disk way back when. It had never even occurred to me to wonder what became of MiniScribe, but it turns out to be a bizarre story, including an accounting scandal involving shipping masonry in the boxed that would normally contain disk drives, and then laying off the people involved, who immediately (surprise!) went public.

Comments

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the idea of "progress". Can I use a similar approach for one of my 100 snapshots? That would be so cool and fitting.

I've never heard of Creative Commons before but I'm going to dig into that. Sounds cool. I'm not sure if everybody knows the sign language though. The "Attribute" sign looks more like "the men's room" to me. :)

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to see your idea of progress :)

CC has been around for some years now (in many countries and languages), and search engines now have options to look for CC tags. Good point about the attribution symbol, though :)