I think 20 pictures is a good number for Flickr feeds, we accumulate the pictures over time in the screensaverpics folder. That's how RSS works, imho.

Credit to the devil himself: the guy knew how to drill to the base of things.

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It occurs to me that Marshall might be missing something key, the sub-folders accumulate photos over time.

In early test versions I had it download 1000 pictures in the first few hours so that you couldn't possibly miss that the point is wide variety.

Marshall try letting it run for a week, and then sit down in front of it with a friend who doesn't know much about this stuff, and just start talking. You'll find your eyes gravitate to it, but it's different from TV.

There's a reason why people who work in news organizations point their screen savers at folders full of wire photos.

Everyone at AP does it. That's how I stumbled across this idea, I was hanging out waiting in a friend's office at a newspaper in South Carolina, and he had this screen saver that started displaying pictures of current events. I was hooked in two seconds.

Marshall, to review this and write about the software is to miss the point. It's about the photos.

And please don't use the word chronic -- that's a word that's used for sickness. It's a bit of s curse man. Not very nice, and not likely to work too well for you if you recall that what goes around comes around. I thought we had a cordial relationship. :-)

The smiley face does little to hide the fact that you're threatening to stop being this guy's friend if he doesn't change the wording of HIS pre-review of your new software so that it's more to YOUR liking.

Talk about integrity.

Now we just need to get this hooked into more devices. Sounds like the perfect thing to run on your Chumby or if you want to go mass-market, get it running on a wi-fi enabled LCD photo frame.

http://everwas.com/2006/01/wi_fi_enabled_lcd_picture_frame.html

http://tinyurl.com/22xmzh

BTW, did you get a load of his bullying you on the use of "chronic" ?. i've read his blog outbursts from time to time and the guy lays into people awfully hard and in really personal terms.

Maybe Silicon Valley is really running out of ideas.

At the Q&A, someone said that Google's RSS reader already does not. I don't know if this is so. Dave and everyone else in the audience seemed surprised.

Then a woman got up and asked about the environmental impact of applications like this. Her question was in response to Dave's statement that showing pictures is what your TV should be doing when you are not watching it. She said your TV should be off.

I was really surprised at Dave's response to her legitimate question, especially now that we are concerned about appliances using too much power. He brushed off her question as being just one of personal choice and refused to answer her follow-up question.

1. FlickrFan's implementation is pathetic. Very very old-school. Too old-school. Everything it does can be easily implemented and work with Front Row's engine easily.

2. Dave Winer wasn't the first to come up with this. Bill Bumgarner published a working prototype a while ago, at http://svn.red-bean.com/bbum/trunk/Flickr%20Feeds/

I guess that posting 5000 useless posts for the past 10 years and wasting your time twittering all day has its benefits... Sad to see him waste the potential media coverage on such a lousy app any 17 year indie Mac developer can do in 2 days.

Want AP photos? Just point Slickr at the AP photos feed. This definitely should not take 4 months to code.

Verdict? YAWN or FAIL. You pick.

Dave, try something truly groundbreaking for a change.