Since my last post about my pictures on flickr things have changed.
The most interesting, most viewed and most favorited haven’t changed (sadly), although there was a small flurry of extra views on the images I posted in this thread – thank you to the people who bothered to look at the picture 🙂 . The biggest change is the sudden appearance of a new “Most Commented” picture.
Even though this picture hasn’t been on Flickr long, it has already outstripped all opposition with regards to the number of comments it has attracted. While I like this picture, and think it is nice, this is not totally down to the picture quality. In reality, this picture was subjected to a lot of “tactical” pool posting – aiming to get the timing right and selecting groups which are pretty good at generating comments. I am in no doubt that if was only visible in my photostream it would have about six comments…(*)
Is this a sign of the reality of web 2.0?
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(*) It is worth noting however, that flickr is much, much better than this blog for comments and visits. Taking yesterday as an example, my photostream had 354 visits, this blog had 302. My photostream had 96 comments, this blog had 1… It sometimes intrigues me that only 1 in 300 visits results in a comment or trackback – is it something we say?
There’s not a lot of mileage in just saying ‘me too’ as a blog comment. It’s harder to say me too in response to a photograph though.
I keep meaning to comment on the Christmas moon which is a gibbous moon just a day after full, hence the dark crescent making it appear mis-shapen. It probably works better as a photo comment than a blog comment, but I’ve got my award now so I don’t care 🙂