Via Wired.com: With Flickr Layoffs, Whither 'The Commons'?:
"In mid-December, when Yahoo laid off George Oates, one of the original employees of the photo-sharing website Flickr, Oates immediately feared for The Commons, Flickr's project to have its millions of members turn their distributed intelligence to the world's photo archives.
Though less than a year old, The Commons hosts tens of thousands of copyright-free historical photos from 17 cultural institutions including the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library."
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/with-layoffs-wh.html
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