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Accidental Empires

Late last week tried to get a sense of the snow conditions on the top of Mount Fuji - the official climbing season starts in July but the pre-season provides an opportunity to beat the crowds and perhaps, heh, catch a little powder on the way down. Whilst 'everything' is only a Google away therein lies the rub for the hurried researcher - you not only want the most appropriate site, but want the data in a sufficiently familiar format - from language to layout. The quick and dirty solution? Search Flickr for Mount Fuji sorted by date.

The point at which content/social networking sites accidentally become sufficiently definitive sources of tangential information.

Photo: Storm drifting over a wintery Lhasa.

Writing from Tokyo | May 7, 2008 | Permalink