>OK, I have dutifully spent some time looking around Flickr and playing with various Flickr mashups. (My favorite is Spell with Flickr.)

The mashups are indeed a tremendously fun waste of time…but I am having a REALLY hard time seeing how they might be relevant to my library work. (How did these 23 things get selected?!?)

As for Flickr itself…I am the sort of person who actually hates looking at other people’s vacation photos, so looking at the photos of strangers is not exactly how I want to spend my precious time. My friends — mostly buddies from my kayaking club, BASK — post their photos on various photosharing sites and sometimes I glance at them, especially if I’m likely to be in the photo! But I rarely take photos, the ones I take aren’t all that great, and I see no point in subjecting the rest of the world to them.

The other photosharing sites I’ve visited include Snapfish, Shutterfly, and Kodak but the one that seems to be my buddies’ favorite is SmugMug. It isn’t free, but it has a nice interface…and it doesn’t ask users to sign in to look at photos, which I really appreciate!