I must subscribe to more than 100 Web 2.0 sites - so many that I'm always getting notices from things like LostCousins.com to remind me that I'm in their fold and I should drop by more often. Yesterday I heard that someone had looked at my pictures in Webshots - I'm glad they found them because I'd forgotten than I'd ever added them. I do know that I add pictures to Wikipedia through its affiliate program Wikipedia Commons. Surprising, with all of the things you hear about Wikipedia, this is a quality operation. When I first started contributing to illustrate places or people that I had in my library that were unadorned in Wikipedia, I heard from someone urging me to send photos in the original format rather than the 800X600 that I kept in my Pbase gallery. Since then I've always tried to do that. Lately, I've found out that in at least 3 cases, (See the Wikipedia articles for Craig Crawford and Charles Grodin) I've contributed unwittingly to Wikipedia because my pictures in FLICKR are listed as available through Creative Commons, so they're free for the taking. Wikipedia does have interesting views about what one may add to their biography page as a contributor - I finally decided that the only way I could adhere to their rules was to describe myself as "An English speaking member of the human race." I haven't heard back, so I guess that passed muster.
One of the joys of this environment is that I often hear from people who are much smarter than I am. Last summer, I bemoaned the fact that there is no language dropdown in Google Book Search. Recently, a reader dropped me a note that he had found the open url code that appears when you limit by language in other parts of Google
One of the hardest things in the Web World is to coin a new phrase. If one can believe Google, then the title of this blog is the first to give that description of Web 2.0 glut.
