To crank or not to crank?

You may have noticed the blue overlays appearing on images on TT now, I’m experimenting with Photocrank which is a service to allow images to be commented and tagged by users without wrapping special code around each element on a site.

They offer a neat Wordpress plugin which once installed adds the necessary code to ‘Crank’ an image, for any images you want to prevent being tagged (the header here on TT is a good example, I wasn’t keen on the idea of random comments appearing there) just add crankstate=”false” to the img tag.

So, good idea? Bad? Here’s something to get you started:

 Yes, I know, LOLCats=BAD but after the recent release of the LOLCat compiler for the CLR I just had to. Sorry.