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Someone’s come up with a great idea for a Flickr group – a collaborative pool of photos of the various Chinatowns around the world: the Chinatown group.

“Many cities have an area known as Chinatown, often chockful of fascinating sights and visuals. Why not share some of those and help to create a pan-global reflection of all Chinatowns.”

(Again demonstrates the flexibility of an application like Flickr – give people some basic functionality and good ideas will emerge.) My first submissions to the group are a little oblique – but Chinatown just happened to be on TV when I got emailed about the group. ‘Real’ Chinatown to follow …

Flickr: Chinatown group

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    chinatown

    Here’s an interesting confluence of writing/linking1 worth visiting; last week Joel wrote about the threat to the future of Chinatown in London,
    The rents in Chinatown have already risen steeply in an attempt to force people out, and if the eastern par

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    Here’s an interesting confluence of writing/linking1 worth visiting; last week Joel wrote about the threat to the future of Chinatown in London, The rents in Chinatown have already risen steeply in an attempt to force people out, and if the eastern par [Read More]

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