As I’ve ***previously mentioned|http://prwdot.org/archives/002299.html***, I’ve found it difficult to find a use for ***flickr|http://prwdot.org/archives/002299.html*** the social, taggable photo sharing site. We already have a well-established ***photo gallery|http://gallery.prwdot.org/***, running on the web hosting space that we’re already paying for. flickr’s free service wouldn’t allow me to upload the amount I currently do to our regular gallery, so I’d have to pay. Also, I don’t want to migrate over all of our photos, nor do I want to publish them to both places. But I have found one thing that flickr is especially good at, and I’ve decided that it fills a nice niche in my digital photo sharing needs: annotated photos. By this, I mean a photo that has a number of features I would like to describe, like people at a party, locations on a map, or peripherals in a computer workstation. flickr lets you add ‘notes’ to a photo, so that when others are viewing the photo, they will see boxes in certain places on the photo indicating notes, and if they hover over the boxes, the note text will pop up.

The best way to understand it is probably to just *** check out the annotated photos|http://flickr.com/photos/peterwood/tags/annotated/*** over on flickr. I’ll post some other blog entries here about some specific photos in the collection.