Flickr founders leave
Wow, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield left. I don’t know why that’s a wow really, but it’s sad. I was one of those very early flickr users when I was active on metafilter. We used to go in there and chat (yes, flickr used to have live chat!) and trade images etc. It was fun. Caterina and Stewart were much more active when the site was small. Actually it probably just seemed that way, as they don’t scale well.
Anyway, through all the yahoo crap during the buyout, and even the account renaming fiasco I always kinda knew, well at least they are still there so nothing terrible will happen. Not anymore. I still think it’s the best photo sharing site, but I no longer have any loyalty or trust. I guess yahoo would rather fizzle into nothing than be bought by microsoft.
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This is hilarious. The whole situation is just sad really. Poor AP is “negotiating” with some group under the delusion that that group speaks for bloggers everywhere. It’s not that world anymore.
Well, this is pretty funny. The weather in London, is an article, well, a soft redirect to a section. This was an example of a crazy article in the past that would never exist, but hey, we do have a climate section on London, so… Steve Summit in the mailing lists suggests it’s the end of an era.
It’s always a mix of sadness and pride when I vote for wikimedia board elections, fully aware that the voting system is far superior and more secure than than the one I use for the US presidential elections. Range voting, public key encryption, digital paper trail… I’d really be happy with a pencil and paper for the US elections.
The phoenix lander has a twitter account, cool!
A new robot friend is landing on Mars today. Should land about 7pm CST, good luck! It will be drilling into the ice to maybe find liquid water and signs of life.