Comments on: Why (and how) am I changing my online identity? http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2008/10/why-and-how-am-i-changing-my-online-identity/ Where Neil Crosby talks about coding on the train... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:15:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Neil Crosby http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2008/10/why-and-how-am-i-changing-my-online-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Neil Crosby Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:40:45 +0000 http://thecodetrain.co.uk/?p=93#comment-52 <p>@Andy - good point re the geotagging - I'd completely forgotten about that. I'm currently at 1114 out of 2123 items geotagged - not something I'd want to have to end up reimporting, but still replacable, unlike the comments.</p> @Andy – good point re the geotagging – I’d completely forgotten about that. I’m currently at 1114 out of 2123 items geotagged – not something I’d want to have to end up reimporting, but still replacable, unlike the comments.

]]> By: Andy Higgs http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2008/10/why-and-how-am-i-changing-my-online-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Andy Higgs Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:03:54 +0000 http://thecodetrain.co.uk/?p=93#comment-51 <p>@Neil - It also depends on how many photos you have, and how many you manually geotagged..!</p> @Neil – It also depends on how many photos you have, and how many you manually geotagged..!

]]> By: Neil Crosby http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2008/10/why-and-how-am-i-changing-my-online-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Neil Crosby Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:22:41 +0000 http://thecodetrain.co.uk/?p=93#comment-49 <p>Re-uploading the photos is the easy part of moving a flickr account though. It's the comments that I would be loathe to lose.</p> Re-uploading the photos is the easy part of moving a flickr account though. It’s the comments that I would be loathe to lose.

]]> By: Paul Lloyd http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2008/10/why-and-how-am-i-changing-my-online-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Paul Lloyd Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:35:51 +0000 http://thecodetrain.co.uk/?p=93#comment-48 <p>I've recently gone through a very similar 'realignment' of my online identity (from lloydyweb to paulrobertlloyd) - and faced many of the same problems you have.</p> <p>The Flickr case is especially annoying. Although I can understand the reasoning behind their decision (i.e. Don't Break The Web), Flickr could have easily ensured that users numeric IDs (ending with @N00) were used for link backs and in code snippets they provide etc.</p> <p>Unlike you, and given my extreme anal retentiveness, I am considering setting up a new Flickr account and re-uploading all my photos! The cost (monetarily and in the time it will take to do so) however is meaning this task is forever languishing at the bottom of my to-do list!</p> I’ve recently gone through a very similar ‘realignment’ of my online identity (from lloydyweb to paulrobertlloyd) – and faced many of the same problems you have.

The Flickr case is especially annoying. Although I can understand the reasoning behind their decision (i.e. Don’t Break The Web), Flickr could have easily ensured that users numeric IDs (ending with @N00) were used for link backs and in code snippets they provide etc.

Unlike you, and given my extreme anal retentiveness, I am considering setting up a new Flickr account and re-uploading all my photos! The cost (monetarily and in the time it will take to do so) however is meaning this task is forever languishing at the bottom of my to-do list!

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