flickr Staff Heather Champ: Bad Sport - PT I

i received feedback on my anti-flickr postings (on my blog) from some other users. One caught my attention specifically because of pointing the finger at the thread and account deletion god-complex named Heather...

Web 4.0 Is Here!

Forget old web 2.0 or self appointed gurus talking about web 3.0. Web 4.0 became reality yesterday. It's not about virtual stuff and ones and zeros anymore. It's real. Before me stands five bottles of beer. Real...

Censorship and Harassment at Flickr.com: My Personal Experience

i was a member of flickr from June 2006 to September 7th. i renewed my membership in June 2007. Flickr deleted my account. They owe me reinstatement or refund. Why did they delete me? i embarrassed them. Or,...

flickr: Racist and Homophobic, or Scamming?

By now, readers of my tales of whoa regarding my personal flickr.com experiences know that i have an ax to grind with flickr staff and "leadership." Take that statement as a full disclosure of potential bias on my...

Release: NowPublic.com Announces Partnership with ShoZu, Making On-the-Go Jou...

" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- NowPublic.com (http://www.nowpublic.com/), the world's largest participatory news network, today announced a key partnership enabling consumers to quickly and...

Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

Seems That Flickr users are revolting against Yahoo!'s move to add video capabilities to Flickr. The line between photos and video is clear and Yahoo! misread the market.

Yahoo Launches Video On Flickr

Flickr has now added a video feature to the site."Flickr members can now upload video to the popular photo-sharing site.Yahoo launched video-sharing this week. Flickr boasts 42 million visitors a month. The company...

OMG Flickr is Turning 4!!! Let's Celebrate.

The folks at Flickr are hosting a party in San Francisco for the company's fourth birthday on March 15.  Since the vast majority of NowPublic contributors are Flickr users, and since most of us aren't lucky enough...

Kirkwood Shooter’s Brother Describes ‘Act of War’

When I spoke to Gerald Thornton this morning, his manner was cold and matter-of-fact. Perhaps, he was tired after answering questions from so many news media reporters, producers and photographers on the plaza across...

Yahoo Stands Firm in Nearly Non-Existent Response to BBB Complaint

Thus ends the six or so month long quiet battle between myself and a giant mega-corporation called Yahoo. (i refuse to include the exclamation mark as part of their name; it is punctuation, not a letter) BBB CASE#:...

Flickr to Host Library of Congress Photos

Library of Congress: We've got all of these images but they're so hard to organize. We should have some way of identifying them with descriptive words! But how are we going to tag them all?Flickr: Why not crowdsource...

The Decline of Citizen Journalism

 I recently revisited the Alexa data on companies and sites that I used to watch when I first started NP.  It’s interesting to see how the original ‘citizen journalist’ sites like Slashdot have actually suffered a decline in the wake of the 2.0...

Bug Labs: Build your own dream gadget

This product takes open source thinking to an new and very interesting level.  "Described as "the Lego of gadgets" by Webware's Rafe Needleman, the Bug Labs platform starts with a minicomputer, the Bug Base,...

Culture-Jamming Decapitator Hacks London Ads

I'm glad to see that the subversive art of culture-jamming is being kept alive in an appropriately gory and 'stumpified' form."Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been targeting the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the...

Flickr War: BBB Complaint - Yahoo Still Unresponsive

Simple update about my personal fight against a heartless giant that took my money and did not provide the services paid for... but did provide harassment...BBB CASE#: 277322 Complaint filed by: ...

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