In the last few days I’ve began using Flickr and Blogger more intensively and found them very impressive platforms. They’ve either improved leaps and bounds since my usage of them slowed, or I didn’t pay enough attention to them before. Althoug the Flickr platform involves alot more learning in terms of navigation, features and functionality the learning is spurred on by great interactions (dragging and dropping images into sets and creating collections), quick image uploads, as well as really inspiring images from the Flickr community. Blogger, on the other hand, is providing the usual robust platform but with really great template customisation facilities – both native to blogger and via various experts. Being able to make a blog template look as far away from a ‘template’ is brilliant. Another great point is the speed and reliability of their post-by-email functionality which means I can blog via my phone (i.e. now). Really looking forward to exploring both sites more.