I don't know flickr so Fotolog always crashes and it's full o people showing boring things and underwear. Creating an account of fotolog it's like entering in a disco-salsa place.

the ability to put notes on your own and other people's photos, as well as comments, is very neat indeed and makes it feel a) sometimes like showing people a photo album in person, and b) like a true networking experience -- building up a post by comments and the direct writing on a photo that LJ doesn't quite have an equivalent for.

I would like it better if there was a Flickr option to get your comments emailed to you, like LJ, because I don't look at it every day.

I must say the slideshow feature on Flickr is pretty cool. Here's a slideshow of my friend Toog's recent photos (actually mostly illustrations for his blog).

This guy has done a lot of fun stuff -- a colour wheel using Flickr pictures, for instance.

You can use an RSS feed to see your comments if you don't visit flickr everyday. I use the email client Thunderbird to subscribe to flickr RSS feeds.

I've never used Fotolog, but I've taken quite a liking to Flickr, to the point where I've recently upgraded to the pro account. I love the interface, the tags, the way it makes it easy to subscribe to feeds of all kinds (people's pics, or specificically tagged pics), the fact that I don't have to worry about bandwidth (I use Flickr to host all my pics, and just link to them from my site). They even make it easy to moblog. It's a smart system, and the people behind it seem to know what they're doing.

- Jean
http://jeansnow.net

i, also, have not tried Fotolog. I do enjoy flickr.

flikr is an upload limit of 10 megs a month, and 100 active photos, without doing a pro account.

fotolog will not tell me what the daily limits are, just that there are daily limits.

" As we've said, Fotolog was never meant to be a site where you could upload a whole bunch of photos from a BBQ or a vacation. It's about sharing your world through your latest and greatest photo."

but it also seems that more people use flickr, which is nice in a network.

I read a mention of Flickr and noticed some other Click Opera habitués were using it. I don't intend to use it as a dumping ground for party snaps or similar, rather somewhere I can put photos that might possibly be of use to someone else. It was the tagging, together with the interface, that persuaded me to use it over other places. I've not really started using yet, but hope to have some good photos from the US, particularly of various WS Burroughs associates and locales from Lawrence, Kansas, in the next few weeks.

Rubbish photos and images I stick on Photobucket.

i love flickr, its great and i've made tons of friends (loads in japan actually..) i will look up your pix :)

I deleted my Flickr account yesterday because I found it all too chatty and friendly, my friendless and commentless noble_savage, whatever its artistic merit, does have the advantage of actually being about the photos (in a world drowning in images).

Friendless with a capital 'F', perhaps, but surely beloved of many connoisseurs of pornographic Neil Scott Hitler doppelganger scenarios?

x

That's the good thing, by not knowing who the audience is (apart from 60-odd LJ people), I avoid the great threat to all bloggers (photo or otherwise), which is to be perverted or diverted by the audience's demands and desires.

You must be quite the pushover if you need to isolate yourself from the public in order to remain "true to oneself" (not that I for one second believe such a condition exists).

Yes, but you yourself are quite clearly indifferent to entertaining or instructing your audience.

For myself, I hope that people find something of interest in what I do, but I'm Reithian enough not to pander to their whims.

I, conversely, hope that people find something of interest in what they do, and I the same.

Yes, there's something to be said for a simple page of photos like that. Nice pictures, by the way, I like your handling of depth and perspective, and the attention to close-up and small things.

Thanks. The more photos I take, the more I realise that I only really see small things (a common problem with myopics) ... the rest is a haze. I'm surprised more people don't talk and think more about the punctum, rather than tbe historical and biographical interest of pictures.

fotolog is photoblogging for the masses and flickr has a much more clean, artsy feel to it. there is tons of trash of fotolog, definitely, and the server crashes are all too often, but there's a clunkiness and slowness i like about it - flickr is irritatingly clean for me. actually, fotolog went through a bad time about two months ago, and there was a huge divide between fotologgers on whether to stay on board or jump over to newer services like flickr and fotola. a good many stayed, but now have accounts in both places. also, i find that fotolog is more of an open community than flickr is. i love the friends/favourites feature that constantly updates alongside my photos, and i miss that on flickr. i'd say go fotolog, but i'm old school. and according to my own fotolog/flickr division, i seem to be with the masses!

r.
(fotolog.net/qinghuayuan)