(Imagine the title sung like The Cure’s “The Caterpillar”)

I’ve been so impressed with the Flickr photo service that I plunked down some money to open a Pro account there last week. It finally got turned on earlier this week, which has let me upload some of my backlog of photos to my new photo page. It’s a great application, even with just the free account. I’m trying to get Paul and April to get an account as well to put up all those fabulous climbing shots; and with all the neat tagging and Set features, we could have everything totally organized and searchable. Wanna find all the pictures of April at Hueco? No problem. Want to get an RSS feed of all photos tagged “boobs”? Knock yourself out.

I think I convinced my dad (who visited this past weekend) to open an account, and I’ll get him a Pro account for a belated Xmas present, and I might do the same for some certain roomies if they want to open an account too. ;-)

Robin has also opened an account, and has started putting up pictures too, mostly of her cats. I like that you can go in and put annotations on people’s pictures (if they let you)... sort of adds to the whole community feeling, as well as all the photo groups.

Sites like Flickr and Google Maps make me think that innovation on teh Intarweb isn’t quite dead yet.