Findingviews

Image by Chesi – Fotos CC via Flickr

A few days ago I experimented with importing my RSS feed from Flickr. The good side to this was that is easy to pull in recent photographs using this service directly to Findingviews. The part of my that loves automation likes this idea. I update Flickr and the blog updates automatically. It reduces my work and Findingviews gains an update.

Oddly I’m now wondering how good an idea that is.

The reason isn’t particularly technical. Its all revolves around presentation. My general photographs and some basic notes are shared via Flickr. I also sell selected work on Red Bubble. Findingviews isn’t really about repetition of what I already release publically. Its about my thoughts and the images themselves. In other words I don’t want to repeat, repeat and then repeat more. The posts on Findingviews need to have their own intrinsic value, they have to be about something. This means that I will still import photographs from Flickr, but I will write something about these and add some value to the pictures.

I’ve decided not to use the power of RSS to bore you.

I’ve decided to try and entertain you.

Its a question of using the power of the feed in an appropriate manner.

Just because we can, doesn’t always mean we should.