George

My last post on this blog was about George Oates and The Commons. I was very excited about what was being discussed in relation to national collections.
I was in the process of writing a post about moral hazard when I received Stephen Downes’ OLDaily with a link to Jeffrey Zeldman’s post about Yahoo laying off [...]

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A Flicker of Flickr at the National Library of Australia

This post started its journey with an email from Chris Gould (a member of staff at the NSIC, Canberra) to the AUSPIN listserv. It has developed into an expedition into tagging and accessibility.
Chris had attended a talk by George Oates (program manager for Flickr’s Commons project and former chief designer for Flickr) at the National [...]

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