Sunday May 11th 2008, 9:01 am by Steve Portigal
Back in January I posted my sad story about the loss of my Flickr account.
The next issue of Ambidextrous Magazine features my Object Obituary (PDF link) for My Flickr Meta-Content.
Tags: ambidextrous, article, flickr, loss, meta-content, metacontent, obit, obituary, online, photography, publish, sadness, stories
Great piece! I hadn’t seen it since I’ve been down in Irvine. It really captured that empty feeling I got when my email box evaporated in spring of 2002, losing some really precious logged messages.
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