Don’t know what Flickr is? It’s one of the most popular photo sharing sites available on the Internet today.  For those of you quick-clickers — you’ve already figured out that the site is, of course, blocked by the county. Web 2.0 tools like Flickr have made publishers out of literally everyone! Problem is, some of the things folks publish don’t quite fit the “appropriate use” policy of our AUP, so it has to be blocked.

All that aside, it is a pretty nice service. And now the Library of Congress has joined the Flickr community! Why is this a big deal? After all, the pictures they posted were already available on the LOC site…

The big deal is that now the world, and I do mean the ENTIRE world, can provide comments, feedback, history, perspective, etc., to accompany the pictures. Does that mean some crap may be posted? Of course! But the tremendous community of knowledge that makes up our little world (and it IS getting smaller, at least as far as technology is concerned) most certainly outweighs the garbage that some goofballs post.

 THAT’S why this is a big deal….