The Library As Text Part III: Or The Finest Possible Communication Apparatus in Public Life

Part 1/2
“But quite apart from the dubiousness of its functions, radio is one-sided when it should be two. It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive suggestion: change this apparatus over from distribution to communication. The radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life, [...]

Photo-sharing

UPDATE: Additional links
flickrvision – real time view of images uploaded to Flickr. The location is where the image was uploaded from.
Examples of embedding images from a photo-sharing site. It includes two sizes of a Google slide show, and three versions of a Flickr badge.
Some Observations About Photo-sharing
I provide a sample of links [...]

The Library as Text: Part 2 (transition)

“Information storage and retrieval by means of data banks and computers are far more than technical devices. They constitute little less than a new way of organizing human knowledge and the relations of present inquiry to past work. All taxonomies are, in essence, philosophical. Any library system, whether by size or Dewey, enacts a formalized [...]