Why I hate Flickr

Excerpted from a Flickr email sent to me today...

CNN: Vets pay tribute to fallen comrades at virtual Vietnam wall

Footnote.com ended up on the home page of CNN this afternoon (then migrated to the Tech section). It was an unexpected surprise, which kept us on our toes. ...

First 48 hours of The Wall

It's been both surprising and humbling to observe how people have interacted with The Wall since it's announcement on Wednesday. After discovering some issues with our clustering providers and optimizing code on the site, we've been able to keep the site humming. It's not easy to quickly serve up a 20GB image - one of the biggest, if not the biggest on the Web - to thousands of people anxious to explore and contribute...

The Wall on CNN

The Situation Room's Abbi Tatton does a great job of summarizing the idea of The Wall.

Free Vietnam photos from Footnote and The National Archives

As part of the release of The Wall, Chris and Footnote.com are going to be making 1 million Vietnam era photos and documents from The National Archives for free. Here's...

Launching The Wall

Today Chris and his team at Footnote announced with The National Archives the launch of their latest project: The Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It's a near full-size image - 20 gigabytes - where people can attach photographs, leave comments and...

Footnote goes first click free

Free. Free. Free. On Footnote.com, you can now view any Premium image that has been Spotlighted or part of a recent Member discovery. Premium images are historic photographs, documents or newspapers newly digitized from The National Archives and others. Here's a photo just discovered from our...

Speaking at We Media today: Start thinking like an anthropologist

I (Chris) just finished participating at the Developer's World panel. We could distill the message of that presentation (and our last eight years of focus) to this: Start thinking like an anthropologist. If you want to create the next big thing, it needs to connect with people in a powerful way. To do that, you need to understand your customer/reader/audience in a new way. Surveys and focus groups have their place. But you need to feel their pain. You need...

At We Media Miami today

Chris is blogging today and speaking tomorrow at 9:15 am at the Storer Auditorium at the University of Miami. Updates (ET) 3:03 pm: Putting more decisions in the hands of patients requires helping them understand at least the right questions to ask, according to the cardiologist speaking, that's empowerment. 3:01 pm: Lots of great questions from the crowd. 2:55 pm: Current political debate probably won't solve it. Will heathcare companies stop being...

Tapping into the Power of Participation

Here are the slides from my (Chris's) part of Sunday's NFAIS panel. It was a rare delight to have an instant rapport with such talented and diverse thinkers: Bryan "always on" Alexander from NITLE,

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