Book pile photo contest returns!
A few weeks ago I started a book pile contest/meme: take a photo like the one on the LibraryThing homepage, show off and win a free membership or two. Quite a few people sent me files. Others posted the photos directly to Flickr. I just finished posting the files to Flickr. Since I've never had a Flickr account before*, they are awaiting some sort of review for pornography and other objectionable material. (The pile of books on top of the toilet, maybe?!) Pretty soon, however, you'll be able to see every one of them at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/librarything . If you get only three pages, the new ones aren't there yet.
I'm going to give this a few more days. More than half of LibraryThing's members joined after the contest! If you want to participate, do NOT send me files. Instead, post your photos to Flickr, tagging them "librarything." Go ahead and leave comments over there too. Some users put literally hours into this exercise, and there are some really cool juxtapositions and effects.
For a few I didn't have the LT username and I didn't think it was right to post the users real name. If one is yours, add your LibraryThing name if you want.
*"He made a tag-based site without ever being a member of Flickr? Has he no shame?" Oh, I only just signed up for Del.icio.us too. I should be SHOT!
I'm going to give this a few more days. More than half of LibraryThing's members joined after the contest! If you want to participate, do NOT send me files. Instead, post your photos to Flickr, tagging them "librarything." Go ahead and leave comments over there too. Some users put literally hours into this exercise, and there are some really cool juxtapositions and effects.
For a few I didn't have the LT username and I didn't think it was right to post the users real name. If one is yours, add your LibraryThing name if you want.
*"He made a tag-based site without ever being a member of Flickr? Has he no shame?" Oh, I only just signed up for Del.icio.us too. I should be SHOT!
posted by Tim at 2:03 AM
19 Comments:
Why not make a group and let others contribute their pictures to it?
If you don't want to do it, i could...
I'm still waiting for an enterprising LT user to do this with their library...
rob, there's also (or maybe not any longer) the Re-shelving Project.
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Hey, hold your fire, I found librarything.com on Del.icio.us a few days after your site launched on Monday August 29, 2005.
What the heck is up with Flickr? Post my photos, why don't you?
Eventually some books shall be shelved by the cryptographic hash sum of their titles, a given sentence or page, the entire text, etc. This would make a nice puzzle.
That's basically how similars works now. A 32-bit hash of the last name and the title. Any book that shares that number is the same book.
Now I have to kill you.
Wait, that was me.
Interesting page, linkmeister. But I say go one step further and set some copies free via Bookcrossing...
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Be advised that if I died strangely, heavily tattooed gentlemen and ladies would make exigent inquiries about the interruption in their cash flow -not all of my ink is on paper. (Tell them everything you know about Lempel Ziv entropy.) Incidentally, I have one or two other photos tagged "librarything"; feel free to grab them if you're so inclined. Cheers!
I sent you some files for this - has Flickr rejected them? Shall I re-send them or are you still in the process of adding pictures?
Flickr does seem to be rather pokey about determining whether new accounts post scandalous photos. It's been about 14 hours now since I posted mine with the librarything tag.
Here's my entry..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrg78/56357404/
Nick. Love it!
Thanks, ah, Mr Thing? I'm assuming you're male..
Yup. All employees of LibraryThing are male and named Tim.
Well, since Flickr still hasn't recognized my librarything tag, I'll post a link to my two photos:
With apologies to Pratchett, Lovecraft et al.
There was a muttering among the hallowed halls of the library. The monks, clad in flowing robes of black silk marked with arcane bioluminescent signs, whispered and sighed; everywhere it was the same. The rumour crawled like a memetic earworm through the citadel of silence and dry paper.
"The Library Things.. have you heard? They say they call themselves something now .. Tim."
;-)
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