How cool it is to see that the 365 Flickr Photo group that went from a group size of 1 (D’Arcy in 2007) to about 50 (me and 49 others in 2008) to 212! There are over 8900 photos in the pool, and we have a good flow of photo shooting tips and friendly conversation in the discussions.
I’ll be speaking a bit on this at Northern Voice, the conference that makes February worth living for.
But the real beauty is that this has been all organic; it grew by itself. No one is in charge, no one makes the rules (when asked, sigh, I say the only rule is “try and post one image to flickr every day”).
Here is my crop from January, using the CoolIris wall embed:
The daily challenge and regular practice still engages my interest and pushes me to learn more every day. Heck, imagine if I felt that way about writing English papers or solving differential equations, not drawing a direct parallel, but thinking more about what engages and what doesn’t.
“the conference that makes February worth living for” now that’s a tagline! I vote that Northern Voice should adopt that as its official tagline from here on in.
Scott Leslie’s latest blog post…Delicious Subject Guides: Maintaining Subject Guides Using a Social Bookmarking Site
Hmm…maybe solving a differential equation a day will catch on — good excuse for me to get back into practice!
Or a PHP hack a day? A Drupal hack a day? (I think bavatuesdays is the de facto WordPress hack a day site). hmmmmm
Patrick Murray-John’s latest blog post…Linkage Graphs in UMW Blogs (inspired by Tony Hirst)
It is such a simple thing, to take a photo everyday. It is more then a simple task because it engages you in the act of simply looking at the world around you each day, taking notice of what is there. I think it more closely resembles the way young children look at the world – everything is interesting, unusual funny or offering potential to be more.
Rhondda’s latest blog post…Learning about the past