If you use Blogger/Blogspot, you know what message you get when you access their photo server photos1.blogger.com directly: "This server speaks in pictures".
The message is the same (only more visual), when you search Flickr for current events, like the hurricane Dennis
Flickr is fast becoming the instant information portal that speaks in pictures. Thousands of its users are uploading photos from their cell phones and digital cameras immediately after an event, as first-hand witnesses. They are almost like AP or Reuters photo reporters on the scene. It seems like the way people are getting information about current events is about to change.
References:
Flickr blog
Photo-sharing sites as new form of online news - NPR, Future Tense
Witness Photos on Web Captured London Drama - NYTimes
Flickr Backup downloads your Flickr photos to your desktop
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