Life in the Network

This picture is actually a culmination of two interesting things, and I happened to be there at the right time. While I personally do not think it looks outstanding on the Internet, in person it is by far my favorite picture. I actually earned a purple ribbon at the MN State Fair with it. It is taken at the Fort Zachary Taylor State Park on the South side of Key West. The fort itself is interesting, but there happened to be a sculpture contest the weekend we were there. I ended up taking a picture at the right spot to make it look like a very interesting picture.

While my Cyberliteracy book is in the mail, I feel like I understand folksonomy from the reading and what I know. One interesting thing that I see is in Flickr, it is simply pictures. It would be hard for me to sit on Flickr and keep clicking on tags, without reading more. I had never heard of Flickr until today, but I think Facebook is a superior to Flickr in the folksonomy, as it has information about people, and events, with pictures included, while Flickr is pictures alone. While it is great that people can share pictures and look at other peoples' pictures on Flickr, I would call it a very basic tool now that we are well into Web 2.0. Devices like Wikipedia are much more advanced to me, when you can pick up related information, and learn new things that you possibly did not know. Because only one person decides each tag, I noticed that when you click on your own tags, in my case Minnesota, because people took all their pictures in one spot, I ended up with 50 pictures from the same girl's album. So, to me it is the opposite of Wikipedia, where many people come together to make conclusions. I think that Flickr, while interesting to look at, is much easier to lead you astray from what you are finding than other, more advanced, devices. I intend to not use Flickr again after this class, both because I initially do not like it and I do not need another folksonomic addiction on the Internet.