Photos and Media

My analysis of Photos and media was left until last for two reasons:

1. I thought i would struggle with this concept as I have not really had much exposure to adding photos into the Internet
2. I am not entirely comfortable with uploading my photos on-line for no apparent reason. The majority of the photos I have are with family and friends, which I am happy to share with people I know, but the concept of random strangers looking on, I am not OK with.

But I just jumped onto Flickr and I was so amazed at how easy it was!

Wikipedia describes Flick as a site for people to share their images and videos. In 2008 Flickr claims to have over 3 billion images.

Flickr was VERY easy to access apart from the fact I had to sign up for a yahoo account (not happy! One more e-mail address to update!)
Once I was in, it was super easy to figure out how to download a series of pictures in one go! The photos I chose were of my last trip to Egypt and some of the more amazing shots (without friends and family in the pics!)
I was also impressed to see the order of importance for Flickr when it comes to our photos. It asked first if I wanted to have them accessible publicly or just for friends and family! I chose friends for now.
It then asked me to write a description below my pics and tags (learning to LOVE tags!)

Other areas I like about Flickr is that is suggests linking to my social bookmarking site (so I don't need to remember the site when I am on another computer).

My friends must be sick to death of me by now trying to sign them up to so many different social sites! Yes, I can invite friends onto my Flikr!
Every e-mail I send begins with a standard Flickr response "I want to share my Flickr photostream with you. If you get bored of that, there's loads of other things to see there too." Fabulous!
Otherwise you can make your own snazzy invites!

Flickr does offer more than just downloading photos, but again it takes time to set-up and organise to fully appreciate Flickr

Adding Value?
Yes, really enjoyed the ease of Flickr and I think it will be the site I use to download my photos the next time I go away on a holiday, as it is user friendly and I can invite the people I want to view my pics.

Other Media...
You Tube
I do not have an account on YouTube but I do use it to watch movie previews and music video clips. I have viewed a few video clips people have mashed together (parts of a movie/TV show with music over the top) and people are created, but at the same time people have far too much time on their hands to put these things together and upload.