Thanks to Skippy, I’m addicted to Flickr. 

• I like that you can organize your photos online easily and share them with others. 
• I like how you can subscribe to comments on your photos. 
• I like how you can easily browse other peoples photos and both see some neat shots as well as satisfy your “voyeur” side. 
• I like that you can create groups and share photos with specific people or photos based on a specific theme. 
• I like that you can email photos to Flickr and have them posted directly to your blog. 
• I like that you can add a Flickr “badge” to your website which randomly pulls photos from your Flickr account to display. 
• I like that you can upload photos directly to Flickr without opening a web browser by using the upload tools.

I especially like the Flickr blog because they post cool photos and neat tools that utilize the capabilities of Flickr like this one:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Flickrblog?m=182

We've always had in mind that people would use Flickr to organize their photos in "ways we haven't thought of yet" - it's why we make public photo data available via RSS feeds, and why we released the Flickr API, which allows outside developers to build new applications that interface with Flickr.

We've seen a number of really excellent tools built using our API recently - but the latest one rocks our socks all the way to Biloxi:

Check out Mappr! - a new tool by our friends over at Stamen in San Francisco. It takes photos you've uploaded into Flickr, looks to see if you've tagged them with place names (like "Omaha" and "Nebraska," or "San Francisco" and "California") and places them on a map of the US. A few sets of tags are already up, for example: all photos tagged with 'Christmas', Eric Snowdeal's awesome postcard project as well as pictures in California.

More sets are coming soon - plans are afoot to map the upcoming Day In The Life Project, and the project will be open to Flickr users any day now. You can join the Mappr group to find out more about the project. The kids over at Stamen are full of ideas, and they'll be showing us in next few months about how Mappr can be made even better.

There seems to be a blogging tradition that I knew nothing about.  Listing the loot you scored because you were a good boy or girl this year.  I thought a variation on the theme was more appropriate.  How about a goofy picture of my son with the loot he scored?

Looks pretty proud of himself doesn’t he?

I did get one really cool thing this year that is even somewhat related to RoudyBob.NET…an authentic Pacers jersey personalized for me from my friend Kevin.  Now how cool is that?  He was wanting to have RoudyBob.NET put on the back but they ran out of room.  And I don’t know whether the choice of numbers was his idea of being funny or commentary on where I rank as a friend…hehe.