The Popularity Contest
Flickr watches the total visits to each photograph posted. Then the number of comments is factored in. The number of galleries a photograph has been added to is considered and the number of times a photograph has been added to a “Favorite” list. All of these numbers are gathered and somehow combined with how FAST all this happens and the result is called “Interestingness.” The effect will leave a photograph that gets a 1,000 visits over a year not as "Interesting" as a photograph that got 300 visits in a month. To learn more about this go to Flickr's "EXPLORE" page.
They list the 100 most “Interesting” each day, gathered from all the members.
The top 100 within a member’s stream can also be calculated.
Here in the left column are the top 20 most “interesting” in the anyjazz65 photostream as of today.
Each will be shown with its original title and caption.
Starting with number Twenty ...
Just for comparison, the right-hand column will list the top twenty photographs based on the number of visits in the anyjazz65 photo stream.
You will see that the number of visits is not the same as Flickr's "Interesting" rating.
The numbers for this comparison will be as of August 22, 2011.
Starting with number Twenty ...
Three Robins
Three robins take a break. These are the plump American birds miss-tagged "Robin" when they were mistaken for the lovely English Robin.
Posted March 11, 2006
VISITS: 484
COMMENTS: 16
FAVORITES: 7
And it was added to ONE gallery
The doorbell doesn't work. You'll have to knock.
“If you’re ever out my way, stop by,” he said, knowing it was an empty invitation.
“I’ll sure do that,” she said, not meaning it at all.
But he waited. The days and nights closed in on him until his last breath slipped out between the moon and the howl of a coyote. “Life is too short,” he thought, as transparency overtook him. “Life is too…”
She remembered him between ticks of the tall clock in the hall. And then she forgot.
Posted March 10, 2008
VISITS: 1,462
COMMENTS: 36
FAVORITES: 17
Faxon, Oklahoma.
We were lost again. Trying to find a new route to Duncan from Frederick, Oklahoma. (There isn't one.) We happened upon a town that I've never heard of, within a half-hour's drive from where I have lived for 30 years. Faxon, Oklahoma. I am sure the residents of that quiet village are quite proud of their home-town but unless we had been lost, we would never have happened upon it. It is not on our map.
The thing that stopped us was this building, visible from the highway. It lends itself to many questions not the least of which is: What happened here?
There are windows blocked in, windows changed for a curious round fixture. It seems to be of poured concrete construction. Sturdy. Renovations were started and unfinished. Painting was started and incomplete.
Three theater seats sit under the canopy on the left. There is a pile of rubble near the center post. There is a "hotel" sign barely visible just above white paint on the right wall. There are mattresses visible through the round window under the canopy.
Questions. Imagination needs questions, among other things.
Posted October 05, 2006
VISITS: 1738
COMMENTS: 46
FAVORITES: 7
Mercedes and her mate
Who'd a'thought we'd end up here.
Wish that guy would stop looking at my headlights...
Posted June 27, 2006
VISITS: 1,455
COMMENTS 27
FAVORITES: 07
Nine of the photographs are in both columns.
They rate in the top twenty by traffic count AND Flickr's "INTERESTING" SYSTEM.
The above two are examples.
Rated by Flickr's "INTERESTING" ------ This is 18th place ----- Rated By Traffic Count only
Small child, big yawn
Now that's tired...
Posted September 25, 2005
VISITS: 1851
COMMENTS: 8
FAVORITES: 12
Columbus, Ohio
I found this on a wall in Columbus, Ohio.
Posted March 29, 2004
VISITS: 1640
COMMENTS: 10
FAVORITES: 08
Can you see my car keys down there?
Posted October 16, 2006
VISITS: 393
COMMENTS: 18
FAVORITES: 11
Bookshelf Auto-biography #2
For the bookshelf biography.
This is installment two of a slowly growing bookshelf series. The original thought behind it was that if you photographed a shelf of your books, it would tell a lot about you. Does it?
This on is rearranged to make sure there were no duplicates with the other photo. They get shifted around often. Still, there is one repeated here.
I rambled on about this more than a year ago in the blog.
Posted August 31, 2008
VISITS: 1694
COMMENTS: 12
FAVORITES: 4
Green
We wore the same colors to this party...Think anyone will notice?
Posted September 21, 2005
VISITS: 879
COMMENTS: 7
FAVORITES: 13
Oklahoma City Sculpture
This sculpture sits in mid-town Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
It can now be seen on Google's satellite photo.
Look at the corner of Couch and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma, City. The MS version has it in the shade at the present but it can be seen clearly on the Google shot.
Posted May 25, 2008
VISITS: 1719
COMMENTS: 8
FAVORITES: 2
Behind Door Number Three
Behind door number three is door number FOUR. Don't open that door.
Posted March 27, 2008
VISITS: 1906
COMMENTS: 19
FAVORITES: 14
Faxon, Oklahoma.
We were lost again. Trying to find a new route to Duncan from Frederick, Oklahoma. (There isn't one.) We happened upon a town that I've never heard of, within a half-hour's drive from where I have lived for 30 years. Faxon, Oklahoma. I am sure the residents of that quiet village are quite proud of their home-town but unless we had been lost, we would never have happened upon it. It is not on our map.
The thing that stopped us was this building, visible from the highway. It lends itself to many questions not the least of which is: What happened here?
There are windows blocked in, windows changed for a curious round fixture. It seems to be of poured concrete construction. Sturdy. Renovations were started and unfinished. Painting was started and incomplete.
Three theater seats sit under the canopy on the left. There is a pile of rubble near the center post. There is a "hotel" sign barely visible just above white paint on the right wall. There are mattresses visible through the round window under the canopy.
Questions. Imagination needs questions, among other things.
Posted October 05, 2006
VISITS: 1738
COMMENTS: 46
FAVORITES: 7
Columbus, Ohio
I found this on a wall in Columbus, Ohio.
Posted March 29, 2004
VISITS: 1640
COMMENTS: 10
FAVORITES: 08
Glass Ceiling
Dale Chihuly installation in Columbus, Ohio 3/26/04
Posted April 30, 2006
VISITS: 1,743
COMMENTS: 30
FAVORITES: 55
A gathering of...waxwings.
One, then two, then...
Posted April 15, 2006
VISITS: 369
COMMENTS: 27
FAVORITES: 10
Small child, big yawn
Now that's tired...
Posted September 25, 2005
VISITS: 1851
COMMENTS: 8
FAVORITES: 12
You talkin' to me?
This meadowlark broke with tradition, came out of the field where he was foraging and stood in the convenience store parking lot to examine a bit of orange peel spotted there
Posted March 8, 2006
VISITS: 510
COMMENTS: 43
FAVORITES: 12
The Record Collection.
Well, some of it.
When the CD revolution was expected to make vinyl obsolete, I bought whole collections at garage sales for nickels and dimes. I bought out an entire record store in Texas once, sold the duplicates and came out ahead.
Recently I bought the Numark usb turntable to replace my ancient Pioneer. Now I can plug it into the confuser and convert an LP to mp3 when I want to. Or I can plug it into the old amp and listen to a few tracks from the stacks on the old JBL’s.
Posted May 5, 2006
VISITS: 1854
COMMENTS: 8
FAVORITES: 5
This one was added on one Flickr Gallery.
Fried Egg
I have been told that this is a "Poached Egg" plant. Thanks.
Posted May 17, 2004
VISITS: 849
COMMENTS: 30
FAVORITES: 12
Behind Door Number Three
Behind door number three is door number FOUR. Don't open that door.
Posted March 27, 2008
VISITS: 1906
COMMENTS: 19
FAVORITES: 14
1955
Salina, Kansas. This is on Santa Fe Avenue looking north. The bank clock is visible at the Iron Street corner. Across the street are those old shops: Gibbs, Epps Bootery, Seitz, Linck Pharmacy. The quartet headed toward us are in the latest fashion for the year.
There were no shopping centers, no Wallyworld. When you shopped you strolled the downtown sidewalks.
This was scanned from an old 35mm negative.
In 1955 I worked in a camera shop (just to the right) and I often tried out new cameras when they came in. I would load a roll of film and step out the front door and capture what ever was on the street at the time.
Posted September 29, 2007
VISITS: 900
COMMENTS: 14
FAVORITES: 8
square flower
How I Spent My Summer Vacation...or...My Pencil Sharpener Broke Down Right In The Middle Of Brunch... Which is YOUR favorite?
This one WAS in Flickr's Explorer at FIRST PLACE the same day it was originally uploaded. There is a rant about that HERE.
Posted November 5, 2005
VISITS: 2144
COMMENTS: 40
FAVORITES: 49
You're not from around here, are you?
Everywhere you go, there you are.
Posted January 27, 2008
VISITS: 691
COMMENTS: 22
FAVORITES: 16
Baker Hotel and resort, Mineral Wells, Texas.
This is the abandoned Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas. There are many stories of hauntings and ghosts. There is a fascinating history here.
See the whole story here.
Haunted? It is rated at a 14 story building....but you know, one never counts the 13th floor in most hotels. The elevator goes from the 12th floor to the 14th. So....actually are there only 13 floors...hm?
Posted June 26, 2007
VISITS: 2252
COMMENTS: 10
FAVORITES: 3
Rated by Flickr's "INTERESTING" ------ This is 8th place ----- Rated By Traffic Count only
Chrome horse
Downtown Wichita, Kansas
Posted June 9, 2005
VISITS: 3,072
COMMENTS: 18
FAVORITES: 14
Rick Nelson
Ricky Nelson plays a concert in Lawton, Oklahoma many years ago at the Great Plains Coliseum on Sheridan. Seems like a lifetime ago and I guess it is.
It was a lucky shot from the balcony, stage right. Pentax K1000, Vivitar 90-200 zoom, fast film. Lucky shot.
Posted October 23, 2006
VISITS: 2807
COMMENTS: 9
FAVORITES: 3
And this one was added to one Flickr Gallery
Taos Fish
A small patio just off the villiage square,Taos, NM
There is artwork everywhere you look.
I found only two things a bit troubling in Taos: The auto traffic and the effect of tourism on the town and people. Many years ago I was told that Taos was more or less a sleepy community of artists, banded together for a common goal: art. It was a cluster of studios.
Now it is a cluster of “galleries” and far and away too much automobile traffic for the population of the small town. It is the junction of at least 4 state highways. It insures that if you are traveling highways 64, 518, 240, or 585, you must pass through Taos, often center town Taos.
Still, there were wisps of the artist atmosphere, here and there. But really, not many. We found clumps of paintings done all in the same style, colors and sizes for a “showing.”
The people were all friendly and helpful and welcoming. That is except for a few sullen teen age mops in their baggy pants or too-much-skin outfits. But I guess you find that everywhere.
It was a lovely visit in spite of soaring prices for food and accommodation. We enjoyed the “galleries” and the small shops. We took one short hop to the north for a visit to the community of Arroyo Seco which actually seemed more like the Taos of yore.
Posted March 28, 2008
VISITS: 490
COMMENTS: 23
FAVORITES: 10
Chrome horse
Downtown Wichita, Kansas
Posted June 9, 2005
VISITS: 3,072
COMMENTS: 18
FAVORITES: 14
Connie
She sat alone in the corner
Dreaming her fading dreams,
Watching her world whistle and whine,
Away and without her.
Once more she thought, once more in the sky.
Once more where there is no horizon,
To fly, once more, to fly.
Here are some recent pictures on mank999's Flickr stream.
www.flickr.com/photos/mank999/sets/72157603632151079/
And here again is a link to a web site and more
information and history on this spectacular aircraft.
www.conniesurvivors.com/1-salina_connie.htm
Posted February 9, 2008
VISITS: 1,011
COMMENTS: 19
FAVORITES: 6
Hotel Settles - Big Spring, Texas
Sign of the times?
This boarded up street is on Interstate 20 business route through downtown Big Spring, Texas. Population about 25K. Sad.
This is 3rd street, one-way east connecting to Interstate 20. Second street is one-way west.
The building is empty. Abandoned, boarded up. How can this be?
I have been taking pictures of many buildings and mid-town areas in lots of cities. None have sparked the nostalgia and memories as this much as this one.
Posted July 15, 2009
VISITS: 3632
COMMENTS:43
FAVORITES: 4
And this one was added to one Flickr Gallery.
Geary always made snap decisions...
Things weren't working out ever since he bought that bargain basement calendar....
Documenting the January 2007 Ice Storm in Oklahoma...of all places...
...
Posted January 14, 2007
VISITS: 572
COMMENTS: 33
FAVORITES: 18
Bookshelf Auto-biography
Here's one to ponder. Go and take a picture of your bookshelf or part of it. Leave it just like it is or re-arrange it. Does it tell all about you? Does it tell some about you? Does it say anything at all?
Posted: October 15, 2006
VISITS: 3,632
COMMENTS: 29
FAVORITES: 0 (Has been as high as 5)
Mercedes and her mate
Who'd a'thought we'd end up here.
Wish that guy would stop looking at my headlights...
Posted June 27, 2006
VISITS: 1,455
COMMENTS 27
FAVORITES: 07
Choice
Two rolls of toilet paper in the hotel room is kind of standard...but your choice of plain or quilted? That's a little too posh...
Posted March 10, 2008
VISITS: 3,846
COMMENTS: 29
FAVORITES: 13
Choice
Two rolls of toilet paper in the hotel room is kind of standard...but your choice of plain or quilted? That's a little too posh...
Posted March 10, 2008
VISITS: 3,846
COMMENTS: 29
FAVORITES: 13
Fish bitin' today?
What bait you usin'?
Main street, Throckmorton, Texas. Only in Texas....
Posted September 23, 2005
VISITS: 3,877
COMMENTS: 16
FAVORITES: 5
Glass Ceiling
Dale Chihuly installation in Columbus, Ohio 3/26/04
Posted April 30, 2006
VISITS: 1,743
COMMENTS: 30
FAVORITES: 55
I'm waiting.
So...you gonna dig in the garden or what?
Posted March 10, 2008
VISITS: 3,898
COMMENTS: 19
FAVORITES: 5
This Column Rated by Flickr's "INTERESTING" ------ These are the first place winners ----- This Column Rated By Traffic Count only
The doorbell doesn't work. You'll have to knock.
“If you’re ever out my way, stop by,” he said, knowing it was an empty invitation.
“I’ll sure do that,” she said, not meaning it at all.
But he waited. The days and nights closed in on him until his last breath slipped out between the moon and the howl of a coyote. “Life is too short,” he thought, as transparency overtook him. “Life is too…”
She remembered him between ticks of the tall clock in the hall. And then she forgot.
Posted March 10, 2008
VISITS: 1,462
COMMENTS: 36
FAVORITES: 17
Design From Nature
This photograph was picked up by an online photoshop website called photoshopproroadmap.com,
for a suggested example for a "textures" overlay. It has been selected as a favorite only once. It has gathered only 8 comments. But it has been visited 13,661 times.
Even with that traffic count, it doesn't even rate a place in the top twenty most "Interesting" from Flickr.
Labels: contest, Flickr, top twenty
posted by anyjazz @ 1:36 AM
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