\nWhatever your thoughts about coincidences, there appears to be a broad consensus that they occur more frequently on Flickr than they do in our day-to-day lives. I think that says something very interesting about the structure of Flickr, the way it allows those connections to happen. And it has potentially profound implications for Flickr-like systems in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It may just be that flickr helps us notice<\/em> coincidences more often — but that doesn’t make them any less coincidental, now, does it? and maybe it even makes flickr interesting for new and different reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"this is just one of those cool things that the universe likes to throw out at us to remind us that everything, in the end,…<\/p>\n
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