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© Greg Wasser­strom

I’m sorry I’ve been neglect­ing you. It’s not because I don’t care; in fact, I think about you more than once every sin­gle day. You’re much busier now than last year, and with so much going on I’m wor­ried that you’re going to for­get about me. So here’s a tid­bit: it’s the Library of Con­gress Flickr stream, though I can’t take credit for dis­cov­er­ing it. Bryan Schut­maat left it for me in a com­ment this morn­ing. Some­times he sends me things to put up on account of he doesn’t have a blog.  Any­way, the stream it’s full of fan­tas­tic pho­tographs includ­ing mind-​​blowing color images from the home front dur­ing World War II. So take a look at that. Bryan said look­ing at them was the best part of his day. That rang true for me too. And I had a pretty good day.

In other news,  I’ll be post­ing to Gawker this com­ing Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. Come by and take a look if you have a minute.

Some­time after mid­night Min­nesota time, Alec asked the ques­tion, “Where is the good stuff on flickr?” It is now 8:45am, and he has received 38 answers to his query, 39 if you count this one right here.

Flickr is full of great stuff, it’s just a mat­ter of find­ing it. As a vet­eran Flickr user, I’ve found that the con­tacts and favorites of some­body decent are usu­ally good places to start. It’s true that you need to have at least one as a jump­ing off point, but if you’ve got­ten your­self this far, well then you’re pretty close.

In any event, I’ve come across some very tal­ented peo­ple this way. All these kids below you may have heard of or seen before. Flickr intro­duced me to their work. There are many others.

Andrew Lau­mann

Mary Amor

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Pete Voelker

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Jes­sica Williams

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Bea Frem­der­man

 Update: Joerg has weighed in on the Great Flickr Debate of 2007.