Wired News: Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!

Flickr was bought by Yahoo. Now Yahoo wants to migrate Flickr users to its registration process and to open Yahoo accounts. Some of the most popular Flick photographers are threatening to leave when the switch goes on. This brings up questions of the psychology of our virtual selves, copyright uneasiness because Yahoo once claimed copyright of all the material on a system (Geocities) that it bought out. Will techies come to the rescue? Will the Flickr folks calm fears of the users? Why is it that Google has a better rep than Yahoo? These are surface disruptions that signal deeper transformations and ripples in our culture. Flick off