My best conference moment last year involved Hydra (now SubEthaEdit), bloggers, rendezvous and macs.
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Cyprien Lomas, who I met at the conference he references, talks about SubEthaEdit and Rendezvous. Cyprien also was at the recent BlogTalk in Vienna and has lots of great pictures up on his flickr site...

Speaking of Flickr... Flickr is a photo sharing/community tool that has all kinds of interesting features. For example it utilizes RSS all over the place, photos, comments, comment threads... all have RSS feeds in various flavors including Atom. Here is the RSS 2.0 feed for my public photostream.

The chat interface is nice and it allows for the posting of images in the conversation area and then discussion can take place around the image. Also it has a very slick hook into the XMLRPC blogging interface which allows you to make posts to your weblog and include images from right within the flickr chat area, or from any flickr gallery. It also allows for posting by email. Another nice feature is that you can tag images with terms. For example, upload an image of something, give it a tag, then it becomes associated with that group. Example, tag a public image "blue" and it becomes part of this group...

Another nice feature is the calendar view, which allows you to see a visual recored of images and when they were uploaded.

I am going to play with Flickr with some of our students and teachers. Am thinking we could use it for our publishing club photographers to share and discuss images for the student newspaper...