If you're photographing OWS events, please use a photo service that supports RSS with tagging. This means we can build new apps off their flow. Your photos have a life outside of Flickr.

As far as I know, Flickr has the most complete API of any of the free photo hosting services. (And I know Flickr isn't free above a certain level of use.)

For example, we can tap into their flow of occupyboston photos through this feed.

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=occupyboston

If you know of another photo-sharing service that has that feature, let me know and I will recommend its use as well and will hook it into the occupyweb.org photo flow. To qualify it must have a URL like the one above, and not require an API key, or any programming beyond accessing an RSS feed.

Note that we are creating an archive of these photos, so there is an incentive to a service to support this. Their photos cannot be part of the archive until they do.

 10/23/2011; 12:38:57 PM.   .

My first audio blog post was on June 11, 2004.

Polderbits was the software I used to record it.

Lots of podcasting developments in June, July, August, September, etc.

A year earlier, Chris Lydon's weblog for the ears.

Dan Bricklin's photos from BloggerCon 2003.

The story of Tom Sawyer and the whitewashing of the fence.

 10/23/2011; 12:07:19 PM.   .

Great articles in China Digital Times and elsewhere about how the Chinese government is nervous about Occupy Wall Street.

That should make us nervous. Let me explain.

1. Most of the coordination of the occupy movement is happening on Facebook.

2. Facebook desperately wants to get into China.

So behind the scenes, imagine the phone calls from China to Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Operator: Hello this is Facebook.

Caller: Chinese Politburo calling for Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuck picks up right away!

Zuck: Hey guys! Are we still on for the meetup in Hong Kong next week! I ordered a keg for us.

Politburo: Well, we wanted to talk to you about that.

Zuck: Oh come on, let's get Facebook China going. You'll see -- it'll be fun!!

Politburo: Didn't we tell you we won't let you install a tool for revolution in China.

Zuck: I told you I'd take care of it.

Politburo: Then take care of it.

Click.

Later on that day he gets a similar call from David Plouffe at the White House about their plans to run their re-election campaign on Facebook.

All of a sudden Zuck is a lonely boy wonder.

Thinking about how he can get the revolution off his servers.

 10/23/2011; 9:45:34 AM.   .