SlideShow Magic

Lots of people ask how to put a slideshow in a post entry; that's normally done embedding Flickr's old slideshow, the Flash one. You can obtain the code for it from at least two sources:

• Blogger Templates
• FlickrSlidr

For example, I got one from FlickrSlidr and tweaked it a bit to give this one, showing images from my Zenit & co. set:

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Not so Random Group Badge

Because copyright problems, few people set up a badge to show photos from a group pool. Those who do and elect to show a "random" sample, will end up showing again and again a little group of photos taken from the latest ones, only randomly ordered.

It's a known problem and it's being looked on, according to Flickr staff's post in their help forum; it doesn't seem to be high in the schedule, though.

You can see a sample of such a badge up there, with photos from Voices in the Wilderness*.

*I had to take down the example, sorry.