here as promised in my evaluation of Earth Album.
Word Press, 2010, Earth Album, viewed 02 September 2010http://www.earthalbum.com/
Earth Album is a fantastic Flickr Mashup it combines Google Maps with Flickr to give it users access to some of the most stunning photographs in the world. Its like going on a trip round the world without leaving your house! Arm chair travelling just got even better!!
The fact that it is updated regularly makes it very authoritative however anyone can add to Earth Album. all the photographs have been taken by various Earth Album user on holidays round the world. the are many Earth Album Flickr groups such as http://www.earthalbum.com/flickrgroup/i_ate_this which has photographs of food from all over the world.
Earth Album is very easy to use all you have to do is click on a country e.g "Australia" to see photos of that country. The resolution of the photos is fantastic. For an example the photos of food look so good that they make you hungry!!
I would definitely recommend having a look at Earth Album:)
until next time happy blogging
as always you faithful blogger
Thumbelina
This is a really clever and effective use of flickr, although I did find it a little slow to load. I'm not sure that authority is really an issue for something like this, since there's no effort being made to provide authoritative information - it's more subjective than that.
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Very clever indeed, a good find Sarah. Ben is correct - authority is not really an issue on a site like this because as you mentioned anybody can add anything at anytime. A good critical annotation and citation but you do need to be careful of grammar and punctuation. CP
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