{"id":473,"date":"2009-01-06T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-01-06T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T18:27:09","slug":"obamas-flickr-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/01\/06\/obamas-flickr-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Flickr Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0109\/Flooding_the_photo_market.html\">Ben Smith at Politico<\/a> has a fascinating little tidbit about Obama&#8217;s release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/changedotgov\/3169910661\/\">photos<\/a> from his daughters&#8217; first day of school.\u00a0 While Smith suggests that at first glance the release of these photos might seem invasive, he links to <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2009\/01\/05\/white_house_photography_offici.html\">Garance Franke-Ruta<\/a> at the Washington Post who offers up this keen observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It may sound counterintuitive, but the best way for Barack Obama to keep any of his life private in this era of cell phone-snaps, Facebook goofs and long-lensed paparazzi is to do exactly this: reliably and regularly release pictures of newsworthy intimate family moments in a manner that he can control.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because online, the only way to control your own image is to drown outsiders&#8217; takes in media stream of your own creation &#8212; and there is no news agency or paparazzo in the world with better access to inner workings of Obamaland and the Obama family than Obama himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Obama&#8217;s active Flickr account means the end of the paparratzi, then I&#8217;m all for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Smith at Politico has a fascinating little tidbit about Obama&#8217;s release of photos from his daughters&#8217; first day of school.\u00a0 While Smith suggests that at first glance the release of these photos might seem invasive, he links to Garance Franke-Ruta at the Washington Post who offers up this keen observation: It may sound counterintuitive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[889,194,424],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-obama","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}