The Art of Technical Writing 2.0

When I was a dud, which is not very long back (I probably still am), I created a flickr account. Excited by the promise that it is a great way to store, search, and share photos. It is, but did you know that it only allows you to store 200 photos with a free account?

When I crossed that limit, I decided to explore flickr.

Here’s where I heard the word ‘Tags‘ (in the web 2.0 sense) for the first time. Tags are words (or phrases) to identify a photo (in flickr’s case). A photo should usually have multiple tags. It is also necessary to tag photos appropriately as flickr let’s you search photos by tags. The concept is simple (and brilliant) but I took some time to grasp it due the inertia of ignorance.

One of my first tag searches on flickr was for frogs (I love the creature), and I was amazed by the number of beautiful photos I saw. I spent an hour seeing frog photos.

Go ahead see some beautiful photos of your favorite things. You can try searching for your name and see if you get any photos.

There’s more to flickr than just tagging. I hope to continue in another post.