More on false tagging in Flickr

Update April 18 - I've been arguing with Rebecca Blood over the Flickr "CPE" slideshow , and investigating further, it appears I have been wrong saying the CPE photos were falsely tagged and included pictures from the November riots.

Rebecca Blood replies to my comment on her article entitled "How flickr singlehandedly invented collaborative photojournalism" - where I pointed out that the slideshow labelled CPE on Flickr is falsely tagged, as the images (with very few exceptions) are related to the violent riots which occured in November and not the more peaceful student demonstrations held in Feb/March.

Blood disagrees that the tags have been mislabelled and suggests that Libération and the Student's Union Webiste - where citizens also contributed photos, but that painted a very different picture of the CPE (more peaceful) - were most probably filtered to present a gentler memoir of the event and that on Flickr, they were "organized by "interestingness", which is likely to skew to the sensational."

I live in Switzerland, and both of these major events have been been in our papers dailly and on our television news. The CPE and the November riots are two major events which have shaken France to the core and have - by some error - been assimilated and rounded up in one single slideshow labelled CPE on FLickr.

How this happened on FLickr (I'm a big fan) - I have no idea - and it's not the point as far as I'm concerned. I linked to Blood's story initially, as a cautionary tale with regard to truth in citizen journalism - but Blood's insistance that the pictures are two shades of a same event is just incorrect .

All related entries:

-- False tagging in Flick - not false

-- More on false tagging in Flickr

-- Flickr tagging news event photos - Always truthful?

emily | 7:28 AM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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