I was reading the flickr blog and they mentioned Yahoo’s Time Capsule, which I guess is a digital time capsule that anyone can submit annotated photos to.
It seems like a great idea, but what immediately struck me was the categories Yahoo chose. The ten categories include Love, Anger, Beauty, Now, and Faith, but there is no category for Thought or Reflection or Insight or Truth. Pretty much all of the categories have to do with emotion rather than thought.
I’m not sure whether this says about Yahoo or about modern society or about photography. Maybe photography is just better at capturing emotions than insights. Maybe Yahoo is peddling emotion because that’s what we all want to spend our money on. Or maybe the designers at Yahoo are just more interested in creating a touchy-feely sort of site.
Probably it’s all of the above. At any rate, here is the best emotion site on the internet.
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Maybe it helps explain what happened to Yahoo of late in the stock market..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=YHOO&t=3m