Oak Hills bookmarks ("oakhills" tag at del.icio.us and flickr.com)
Scott Peterson
oakhills.
If you're a del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) user, sites you tag
with "oakhills" will show up there.
I'm finding this tagging thing to be quite useful. I find I use this
instead of bookmarks now, because it enables me to see them from all
the computers/browsers I use.
We can use the same tag at flickr.com. Right now nothing has this
tag there. I'll put something up when I get home so you'll all know
it's the right feed.
--- sdp
Scott Peterson
On Sep 22, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Scott Peterson wrote:
>
> We can use the same tag at flickr.com. Right now nothing has this
> tag there. I'll put something up when I get home so you'll all
> know it's the right feed.
www.flickr.com/photos/tags/oakhills/ and add more yourself.
I've been thinking of other uses we could put flickr.com and camera-
phones to.
1) If you have a camera phone, and notice the bulletin board at the
entrance has changed, send a (readable, close-up) snapshot of it to
flickr.com tagged with "oakhills" and "bulletin-board" (but not while
you're driving, of course). This will show up in the RSS feed for
these tags, complete with the time stamp from your camera to let us
all know when the bulletin board looked like that. Those of us who
usually enter on other streets (I usually come in from Bethany) may
see the changes sooner if they get posted online. It doesn't matter
if several people do this and we get multiple updates. Don't sweat
it if you can't read the fine print in your picture. If people find
the headlines interesting, they can walk over and read the details.
2) The same process would work for steams of photos of neighborhood
watch issues (NW people feel free to chime in here) including
vandalism, etc. It seems like anything that gets this documented
fast is good. Note that posting a photo is not a replacement for the
exiting issue reporting process, just something additional that might
help. Safety issues (heaved sidewalk slabs, broken playground
equipment, etc.) would also be good things to point out this way. In
these cases, some shots of the surrounding area to help locate the
issue, as well as closeups of the problem would probably be useful.
See the flickr.com site for how to do this with your camera phone.
I'm still in the stone age, and have no camera in my phone (and since
they're all currently kind of awful as far as image quality goes, I
don't really feel bad about that), but many of the newer "free"
phones have cameras. Be sure to check your wireless plan to verify
it's not costing you $5 every time you send a photo somewhere
(Cingular charges me $.10 every time I send a text message, and
photos are much larger), or consider sending it from home later.
Note that (normally) anyone anywhere can see these photos. Posting a
photo of your kids in front of your house number or street sign might
not be a good idea.
--- sdp
Scott Peterson
> Oak Hills related web sites can be found at http://del.icio.us/tag/
> oakhills.
>
> If you're a del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) user, sites you tag
> with "oakhills" will show up there.
>
Well it's a big Internet, and there's more than one place called Oak
Hills. Fortunately we can be more specific. If we tag pages relevant
to the neighborhood with both "oakhills" and "beaverton", we can pick
them out of the noise with:
http://del.icio.us/tag/oakhills+beaverton
> We can use the same tag at flickr.com. Right now nothing has this
> tag there. I'll put something up when I get home so you'll all
> know it's the right feed.
>
>
The problem is worse on flickr where there are suddenly way more
pictures for another Oak Hills than there are for us (only a couple
of examples).
We can use the same trick here, and pick them out with:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=oakhills+beaverton
---sdp