How much control can … you expect to have when you upload your photos into a public system with an API that’s specifically designed to encourage recontextualization?
— Justin Oullette (of Muxtape fame) is adding authentication to his minimalist Flickr viewer, I Hardly Know Her. A user complaint around the re-publishing of photos spurred some pertinent questions concerning the service: for example, if the view into a Flickr user’s photos isn’t generated until a visitor physically requests it, is the site or the visitor doing the publishing? When it returns, Justin’s site will require a one-time authentication from a Flickr user before displaying his or her photostream.
