SWSW Interactive 2009, in Sketchnotes on Flickr. The blog is here.
Flickr is one of the most underutilized web 2.0 sites out there. While right now it’s mostly limited to photos, I see it really taking off with written, detailed information like this. Beyond images, it allows for visually interesting ways of relaying information in text. This is bound to be used by marketing soon, but on the creative side what I’m really hoping for is narrative.
Evolving news stories could be told in the form of Flickr sets with images on some slides, notes on the next. Creative stories could be told collectively, with image pools serving as a common source. From there I’d like to see people use image and text from Flickr to create and pass projects, like in an exquisite corpse.
Tags are almost a form of communal storytelling, a way of linking individual information between events and people. But they’re limited by their greatest strength, being user created. There’s too many variations, too many mispellings, to find and follow threads of information between sources. But limiting users to a set number of tags could limit conversation to those topics. What do to?
Tags: ideas about communication, ideas about Flickr, ideas about the future of media