for good pix
is an awful lot like
mining webjay
for good tunes
above each flickr pic are
icons for 'fave' and 'blog'
and 'fave' is quicker
but the only available view
of a person's faves
is 36 tiny thumbnails per page
no rss
no fullpage with 'next' button
(there's the flash slideshow option
where you can pause and mark faves
but it's clumsy for this)
so i opted to start a new blog
and use the 'blog' icon
which demands
an extra step at the start
to choose your blog from a menu
and at the end
to go back to the picpage
and you're stuck with squinting
at the tiny thumbs
and opening each one
that shows promise
and because flickr's pages
are loaded with formatting
they're slow to display
all of which is a drag
on 'zipless blogging'
but even with squinting
the 'faves' pages are useful
in exactly the way
Webjay playlists are useful
you find someone whose
tastes look similar
as a startingpoint for exploration
(you can even pick a pic
or tune you like
and see who else 'favorited' it)
with Webjay playlists
you can send the whole list
to iTunes or Winamp
and check the ones you like
skip the ones you don't
and when Webjay fixes the bugs
that garbage your playlist
you'll be easily able to
aggregate your faves
and while giving each tune
a fair shake
is a lot slower than
scanning a page of thumbs
it would be quite comparable
to browsing with a 'next' button
if flickr offered that view
for others' faves
