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# Flickr value
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/flickr-value/
- Published: 2005-12-01T22:56:03.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:00:42.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

[![poolbeg.jpg](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/poolbeg.jpg)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/lorcand/66489231/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)I sometimes find it helpful to state the obvious ….  
One of the major values of Flickr is that it is a low-entry mechanism for making photos ‘citable’.  
You can give them a URI, a handle, that can be copied and exchanged, and which makes it that much easier for them to enter the shared network space.  
The ability to copy and share a URL for most pages is one of the ways in which Technorati, Google or Amazon differs from earlier generations of services.