my feelings on hearing the news...

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I spent today outside wandering round Alexandra Palace with my new camera that I'm buying off Eyedropper. It's a medium format Kershaw Eight-20 Penguin. Loading it takes a high degree of patience. When I finally got back to Surrey tonight I sat on my floor and ate a clementine while reading Word magazine.

Then Underbunny calls... have you I heard the news - Yahoo are buying Flickr!

So what do you do - add yet another post mixing joy for Ludicorp with fear for the application?

How do I feel about this anyway? I don't know... I bought my account because I believe in the application, because it's not corporate, because it's not owned by a media behemoth. Because it felt close, personal and trustable. But it could be really good for it too. I just don't know.

So I made a quick visual description of my quandry...

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	striatic says: the former. a year ago, i would have said the latter. but right now yahoo is really trying to reinvent itself. Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )
	evilcoffee says: I really hope it's the former... But is Yahoo doing a Bowie? or dressing like a trendy Dad? Again, I really hope it's the former... ;-) Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )
	striatic says: it could be trendy dad. : / but trendy dad is still better than squashed flickr, and flickr HAD to be acquired by someone .. for a number of different reasons. Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )
	gailatlarge.com says: Thanks for letting me blog your logo. I searched around Flickr, and yours was the most appropriate to what I was writing. Cheers! Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )
	pidge says: This is what I love about you, evilcoffee - creative, optimistic dread. Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

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