Comments on: I Know That Photo! http://cogdogblog.com/2008/10/07/i-know-that-photo/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:29:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Laura http://cogdogblog.com/2008/10/07/i-know-that-photo/comment-page-1/#comment-57121 Laura Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:45:11 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2008/10/07/i-know-that-photo/#comment-57121 Heh, I was doing some searching today and I kept running into *your* photos. How about trying to find an image for "identity" or for "feedback". I did a search for "emergence" and got a bug coming out of its shell. Eww. But all fun! Searches on "network theory" didn't work too well, but network graph and connected were better. And I always like seeing the difference between "most relevant" and "most interesting" and seeing what searching on just the tags reveals. Sometimes I end up perusing someone's entire collection--so easy to get lost in these things. I also enjoy using deviantart for drawings and arty photos. Even if I don't find anything there, sometimes it gives me ideas for searches to run on Flickr. FYI, there's a comic hero named Feedback, which I didn't know about until a run through deviantart. Heh, I was doing some searching today and I kept running into *your* photos. How about trying to find an image for “identity” or for “feedback”. I did a search for “emergence” and got a bug coming out of its shell. Eww. But all fun! Searches on “network theory” didn’t work too well, but network graph and connected were better. And I always like seeing the difference between “most relevant” and “most interesting” and seeing what searching on just the tags reveals. Sometimes I end up perusing someone’s entire collection–so easy to get lost in these things. I also enjoy using deviantart for drawings and arty photos. Even if I don’t find anything there, sometimes it gives me ideas for searches to run on Flickr. FYI, there’s a comic hero named Feedback, which I didn’t know about until a run through deviantart.

]]> By: Scott Leslie http://cogdogblog.com/2008/10/07/i-know-that-photo/comment-page-1/#comment-57115 Scott Leslie Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:04:23 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2008/10/07/i-know-that-photo/#comment-57115 I agree with the whole "metaphor" thing - often you have to come at flickr indirectly. I often find myself tweeting for the right word to search on (my favourite was trying to help @fncll find images for "proprioception" - try doing a flickr search on that on its own!) This came up at OpenEd - during one of our numerous late night brainstorms, Tony Hirst and I looked at each other when talking about this and simultaneously said "thesaurus search!" We were then supposed to race each other to see who could do it first (I'll claim I got derailed by other projects, which is sort of true, but really, I didn't think to bother to try, expecting Tony to have finished it in 15 minutes after he got back to his hotel room.) By the way, if you had tweeted looking for the right word to search on, my suggestion would have been "megaphone" not "microphone." In any case, nice job with that post, result achieved! I agree with the whole “metaphor” thing - often you have to come at flickr indirectly. I often find myself tweeting for the right word to search on (my favourite was trying to help @fncll find images for “proprioception” - try doing a flickr search on that on its own!)

This came up at OpenEd - during one of our numerous late night brainstorms, Tony Hirst and I looked at each other when talking about this and simultaneously said “thesaurus search!” We were then supposed to race each other to see who could do it first (I’ll claim I got derailed by other projects, which is sort of true, but really, I didn’t think to bother to try, expecting Tony to have finished it in 15 minutes after he got back to his hotel room.)

By the way, if you had tweeted looking for the right word to search on, my suggestion would have been “megaphone” not “microphone.” In any case, nice job with that post, result achieved!

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