As two minutes skimming the Flickr Blog will prove, the big thing on Flickr seems to be the photo memes. They take off pretty quick, people just tag a couple of photos with the meme name, send it to their friends, then they tell two friends, and they tell two friends …

There are two I am really digging. The first is the desktop screenshot meme. One of the nice features of Flickr is that you can use the flash applet to annotate photos. The desktop screenshots then become a valuable pointer to neat apps and GUI eyecandy. Its how I discovered Samurize and WKrellm.

The second one I really enjoy is “What’s in your bag?” inspired by a gadget site that used to ask cutting-edge-geeks that very question. This series is almost obsessively annotated, and its a neat snapshot of the photographer. I’ve also learned the following things are true:

• most Flickr users are Mac users
• most Flickr users have iPods
• a shocking number of Flickr users use floppy disks

Floppy disks? ~1M of easily-crushable storage? It really blew me away. I was shopping for a spindle of DVDs at Staples the other day, and they didn’t even have floppies on the shelves. You can buy a 128M memory key for just a bit more than 30M worth of floppy drive storage. I figure its generally students who are dragging these files around on floppies, but its alarming to think that institutes of higher learning don’t have (or possibly don’t allow access to) USB ports on their machines.

If you’re at all interested, I participated in What’s in your bag.