Through Techcrunch:
Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.
Fake officially left last Friday. Butterfield (who still officially runs Flickr) [...]
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flickr
June 18, 2008 – 8:04 am
crippled
June 9, 2008 – 8:56 pm
Among the stack of DVDs that now sits next to the TV, there was the entire set of The Office, series 1 and 2. The cool thing is that being BBC issue, they are audio described. What is wonderful about the UK version of The Office is that it is so painful to watch, and [...]
rotterdam
June 3, 2008 – 8:10 am
No, we don’t like tourists: “if you come to Rotterdam expect to get hit”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o_QIP7uQO4
local
June 2, 2008 – 8:01 pm
When we moved into our neighbourhood, it was already a village in the city, strategically located, but a bit out of the way, not an area that was on the radar of most people. Rotterdam isn’t a very touristy city anyway and so we felt safe in our unfashionable haven. Then our quarter started to [...]
display
May 27, 2008 – 7:57 am
I was half-listening to RNN news yesterday (out of the corner of my ear so to speak) when I heard someone say “braille”. I wasn’t hallucinating, RNN was actually carrying a news item on Alva’s new braille display. I’m using an old one from Baum at the moment, as support for my Mac’s VoiceOver capabilities. [...]
blindness
May 25, 2008 – 10:36 pm
J. asked me if I was aware of Jose Saramago’s Novel “Blindness” (”City of the Blind” is the Dutch edition’s title) and I am. It’s been made into a film too, which premiered at Cannes earlier this month. Youtube is awash with trailers and it’s obvious that “Blindness” is considered to be “a good novel”. [...]
inspirational
May 25, 2008 – 11:30 am
Listening to a blind skier on BBC’s “God Slot” (don’t know what the programme is called, something with “Heaven”) and hearing his story described as “inspirational”. How would that be then? Inspirational to other blind people? (Go skiing!)? To sighted people? (Stop moaning, blind people actually ski, so what’s there to complain about!) I’m reminded [...]
disenchanted
May 24, 2008 – 10:26 pm
Edit: Russia won! I think this is a very good precursor of Russian dominance over the European continent in the coming decades (oil, gas) All of Russia’s neighbours voted heavily in favour of its entry. More controversy as the ESC heads to Moscow. We’re watching the Dreaded Event at the moment and are feeling thoroughly [...]
final
May 23, 2008 – 11:46 pm
Well, the Eurovision semi-finals are over, and we have a line-up for the finals. Blind Flaneur’s Café Mouffe features a Eurovision entry by Amina (France) from the 1990s. I’m feeling really flattered to have been featured in the illustrious Café, by proxy as it were. Anyway, down to this year’s business. As the dismal score [...]
