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tags for speciic kinds of searching
he aforementioned tools generate very general sets of data. Of course they
do, they're bookmarking tools—by design they're repositories for general
information. But tags are used in other settings as well. One of my favorites
is Flickr, which tags photographs, but there are other ones too.
Flickr
Before we get into Flickr (lickr.com), I am warning you: keep in mind that
you're trying to do research here. Do not get distracted by the pretty pic-
tures. Flickr can turn ten minutes into two hours. If this chapter just kind
of trails of in the middle, send out a search party.
I'm sure my intrepid editor won't let that happen. Flickr is a photo-sharing site
that also lets users tag their photographs. When searching for photographs,
it's my favorite place. It's updated very frequently, the quality of the materials
on the site is good overall and non-spammish, and it provides an amazingly
quick reference to pictures of current events. Name an event, and it seems like
someone's there snapping pictures, ready to put them on Flickr.
he front page of Flickr shows you recent photos and news, but the Tag Search
page, at lickr.com/photos/tags/ is where you want to be
(Figure 9.2)
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Figure 9.2
popular tags at flickr.
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