Fractured Flickr

I have a confession to make to my readers - both of you. This week's Learning 2.0 is about Flickr, something I had already made a brief reconnaissance of. Dutifully, I turned to Flickr again, found out what a mashup is, etc. Am I missing something? Am I the only person on the planet who finds Flickr stupendously boring? Why would I want to look at photographs by amateurs? Who breaks into other people's houses in order to look at their photo albums?

OK, I resolve to try a little harder. Let me use my searching skills to find someone who can tell me why librarians should care about Flickr. I come up with something like this. Read it very carefully. Despite its hyperventilating title "Why Flickr is so great for libraries", there is nothing there.

I don't lie awake at night, tossing and turning, thinking "Oh, if only someone would invent something that allows me to post and share images to the Internet - it would revolutionize my work at the Library!!"

And the 'Librarian trading cards' are deeply sad. Sad, sad, sad.