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Flickr Foundation @flickrfdn

The 501(c)(3) Flickr Foundation is working on our 100-year plan, nurturing Flickr Commons, and prototyping our Data Lifeboat. 💙💖✨

Joined September 2021
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Distributed Press | @distributedpress@social.coop@dwebpress
6 Jan 2025
In the digital world, there’s nothing more disheartening than losing access to a website you’ve poured time and effort into building. ✨👉OPEN CALL: Resilience grant. Get your website back, reclaim your history 👈✨ Apply until Jan 13th here: sutty.nl/en/recovery-form/
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We are inching slowly away from this online space, because free speech doesn't mean what the owner thinks it means. We're on Mastodon and Bluesky, so please follow us there if you'd like to stay in touch: Mastodon: glammr.us/deck/@flickrfdn Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/flickrfdn.b…
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Are you free on Sep 26th? Join our first "Flickr Foundation Conversation" online to hear about why we're doing what we're doing - we hope to see you there! Find out more and sign up on Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/flickr-foun…
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technologyreview.com/2024/08…

The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age

We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it?

technologyreview.com
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State Library of NSW@statelibrarynsw
8 Aug 2024
For all our cat people out there! This #InternationalCatDay we're sharing one of our biggest books on felines. 'Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats', Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1883: ow.ly/xTlQ50STx3o
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Strong recommend: The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman, available on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020xv… "We're in the middle of an information crisis."

BBC Radio 4 - The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman, The Most Useful Thing

Naomi Alderman argues we are living through the third great information crisis.

bbc.co.uk
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Catching up on "Moments in Time" by @everestpipkin via @TPGallery and its unthinking.photography program. unthinking.photography/artic…
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Listening to Mark Sealy, Vanley Burke, Dr. Kenneth Montague, and Richard Mark Rawlings talking about Power. youtube.com/watch?v=XcvQojSQ…
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Tech Lead @alexwlchan on a little open source utility we've made which parses Flickr URLs (to figure out if there are photos to see): flickr.org/the-surprising-ut… We are already using this library in two other tools: flickr.org/tools too! 🔧🔥🪝

The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser - Flickr Foundation

We’ve made a library that knows how to read lots of different forms of Flickr.com URL.

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Check out the first of two installments from 2024 Research Fellow, Eryk Salvaggio, on generated images and Flickr: flickr.org/the-ghost-stays-i…
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Flickr: Where photos live! YEAH! youtube.com/watch?v=LyhTwOzK…

Celebrating 20 Years of Flickr: Where Photos Live

For 20 years, Flickr has been the go-to destination for photography...

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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
@kcsamh
8 May 2024
🧠THIS MONTH: Curious about photovoice as a research method? Join us for an introductory workshop to explore this and paired description, with @AccessMaking member and @flickrfdn Research Fellow @pra_kris. 🗓️ 20 May 🕔 15.30-17.30 🎫 Free, sign up here ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/events/photovoice-…

Photovoice and Paired Description – an introductory workshop

Exploring the application of two qualitative research methods, “paired description” and “photovoice”, to generate informal, community archives from online image repositories

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Today we're publishing a new report, "20 Years of Flickr: Archiving the Living Environment" by @ashleymaerie. It focusses on the value of Flickr, risks to its longevity, and suggested practices to adopt as we move forward with our mission. Thanks Ash! flickr.org/report-archiving-…
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pad.mini find me on BlueSky@praymurray
19 Apr 2024
If you're voting today (I know #TamilNadu is) can you pls share an image of your inked finger below? I'm making a thing. Pls RT!
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Love this Eclipse gallery on Flickr, curated by NASA, shot by Flickr members. flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot…
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We've been waxing and waning about finding ways to look back over Flickr's 20 years and beyond to surface peaks of photos taken same time place... Are you a data nerd who might be curious to try this with us? Say hi!
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Thank you @MrsAudiac (Jenn Phillips-Bacher) for being our very first Research Fellow ever. It was wonderful to have you join us, you are a pleasure to have around, and your work was deeply useful. Onward! 😍🥳🌸 flickr.org/on-being-a-resear…
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Great news over at @creativecommons as @annatuma is announced as the new CEO: creativecommons.org/2024/04/… Congraulations all around, and well deserved, Anna! The right recognition for your foundational work at CC so far!

Anna Tumadóttir Appointed as CEO of Creative Commons - Creative Commons

The Board of Directors of Creative Commons (CC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Anna Tumadóttir as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CC. 

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We've developed a new Explorer for the Flickr Commons picture collection, and we're adding bits and bobs here and there... This week we learned that the Flickr Commons has enjoyed about 4.4 BILLION views during its lifetime. flickr.org/how-does-the-comm…
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Really pleased to announce that the Flickr Foundation is the newest member of the Digital Preservation Coalition, a global community of practice we can't wait to get involved in, and learn from. dpconline.org/news/new-membe…
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