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The 501(c)(3) Flickr Foundation is working on our 100-year plan, nurturing Flickr Commons, and prototyping our Data Lifeboat. 💙💖✨
Joined September 2021
In the digital world, there’s nothing more disheartening than losing access to a website you’ve poured time and effort into building. ✨👉OPEN CALL: Resilience grant. Get your website back, reclaim your history 👈✨ Apply until Jan 13th here: https://t.co/Cm1pfawf2u
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We are inching slowly away from this online space, because free speech doesn't mean what the owner thinks it means. We're on Mastodon and Bluesky, so please follow us there if you'd like to stay in touch: Mastodon: https://t.co/EJt5mwgsRj Bluesky: https://t.co/priGuX55Gp
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Are you free on Sep 26th? Join our first "Flickr Foundation Conversation" online to hear about why we're doing what we're doing - we hope to see you there! Find out more and sign up on Eventbrite: https://t.co/lNEY5wvieN
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For all our cat people out there! This #InternationalCatDay we're sharing one of our biggest books on felines. 'Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats', Daniel Giraud Elliot, 1883: https://t.co/9Ofo5zITMx
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Strong recommend: The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman, available on BBC Sounds: https://t.co/hOdmiJgGr5 "We're in the middle of an information crisis."
bbc.co.uk
Naomi Alderman argues we are living through the third great information crisis.
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Catching up on "Moments in Time" by @everestpipkin via @TPGallery and its https://t.co/9taX1WlGfV program. https://t.co/lmU31rn42t
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Listening to Mark Sealy, Vanley Burke, Dr. Kenneth Montague, and Richard Mark Rawlings talking about Power. https://t.co/J1T4ZZJzhs
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Tech Lead @alexwlchan on a little open source utility we've made which parses Flickr URLs (to figure out if there are photos to see): https://t.co/oJ74iBXnuQ We are already using this library in two other tools: https://t.co/rvKmnng3Dx too! 🔧🔥🪝
flickr.org
Data Lifeboat, October 2025 Data Lifeboat allows any Flickr member to make an archive of Flickr photos and their metadata. With in-built consent, you can also archive other people’s photos, and with...
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Check out the first of two installments from 2024 Research Fellow, Eryk Salvaggio, on generated images and Flickr: https://t.co/iwnPvPDHy8
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🧠THIS MONTH: Curious about photovoice as a research method? Join us for an introductory workshop to explore this and paired description, with @AccessMaking member and @flickrfdn Research Fellow @pra_kris. 🗓️ 20 May 🕔 15.30-17.30 🎫 Free, sign up here ⬇️ https://t.co/h6aiqaoRCQ
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Exploring the application of two qualitative research methods, “paired description” and “photovoice”, to generate informal, community archives from online image repositories
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Today we're publishing a new report, "20 Years of Flickr: Archiving the Living Environment" by @ashleymaerie. It focusses on the value of Flickr, risks to its longevity, and suggested practices to adopt as we move forward with our mission. Thanks Ash! https://t.co/pNms4TDyPq
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If you're voting today (I know #TamilNadu is) can you pls share an image of your inked finger below? I'm making a thing. Pls RT!
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We've been waxing and waning about finding ways to look back over Flickr's 20 years and beyond to surface peaks of photos taken same time+place... Are you a data nerd who might be curious to try this with us? Say hi!
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Love this Eclipse gallery on Flickr, curated by NASA, shot by Flickr members. https://t.co/pc5prwxVeD
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Thank you @MrsAudiac (Jenn Phillips-Bacher) for being our very first Research Fellow ever. It was wonderful to have you join us, you are a pleasure to have around, and your work was deeply useful. Onward! 😍🥳🌸 https://t.co/sk3CqgXeEt
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Great news over at @creativecommons as @annatuma is announced as the new CEO: https://t.co/QS3lW745VV Congraulations all around, and well deserved, Anna! The right recognition for your foundational work at CC so far!
creativecommons.org
The Board of Directors of Creative Commons (CC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Anna Tumadóttir as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CC.
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We've developed a new Explorer for the Flickr Commons picture collection, and we're adding bits and bobs here and there... This week we learned that the Flickr Commons has enjoyed about 4.4 BILLION views during its lifetime. https://t.co/ZoC2QQdur3
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Really pleased to announce that the Flickr Foundation is the newest member of the Digital Preservation Coalition, a global community of practice we can't wait to get involved in, and learn from. https://t.co/CGp2Sz3uj2
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