Explored Flickr and YouTube. Gotta improve my skill at skipping past the eye-catching time-wasting stuff.
Easier said than done, given that the internet's basic design encourages bouncing around among mostly unworthy sites and images. See Nicholas Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" in the current Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/
Brief mashup comment (added 10/6, re: Thing 8): Marcos Weskamp's "Flickr Graph" caught my eye. But as in so many things web-related it shifts emphasis from the language of relationships to the images of relationships. Tools like Weskamp's are clever and fun, and potentially useful in helping us visualize social links. I just wish they were not beginning to replace (for many folks) thoughtful statements about who people are, and what they mean to us. Like any tool, Weskamp's can be used wisely, or foolishly overused.
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