Without a doubt one of the most useful web applications around and the single best photo sharing doodah out there, Flickr really is in a league of its own. And we love Google too, but that Picasa thing of theirs is more Charmed than it is Buffy (in that it came late, refused to go away and in time will start throwing in more Flickr style features which like Charisma Carpenter will just stick
out in all the wrong places). Londonist has its own pool which is handy to keep tabs on what our readers are snapping in a city that offers a photo opportunity at every turn and that handy badge means that our blogs look fresh even if we are still writing about how Blair turned out to be a bit of a dick. Again.

So we were a little disgruntled when we began to hear words like censorship floating around in the wake of Yahoo's acquisition of Ludicorp and our beloved Flickr. Was the recent spurt of free Pro accounts and extra space just a slight of hand intended to keep our focus away from the sharks with laser beams attached to their heads swimming below the surface?

So what's the story? Well it seems that Flickr have been sending out emails to some of their users asking them to tag a few of their more revealing photographs as private. Is this a big deal? Well no, and yes.

Londonist Mike, contributing