OER Commons. Interesting Blogs: The Millions. Arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts | Engage with d. Deconstructing Flickr’s “Interestingness!” « Wesley Hein 2.0. Since Flickr is one of the most well-known Web 2.0 sites it is worth taking a look at what they do if for no other reason than to use it as a predictor for what the legions of Flickr clones will soon try to copy. Today we are looking at Flickr's method for selecting what it terms "interesting" photographs–purportedly without the intervention of human editors. The results are generally pretty impressive adding to the question what variable they use to distinguish compelling visuals. Thomas Hawk: "More than just "interesting," "interestingness" could potentially be a way that Yahoo!
Reclaims a little piece of search from Google. Today image search at both Google and Yahoo! Is largely broken. Says BuzzMachine: "What’s great about this is that it exposes not the wisdom of the crowd but the taste of the crowd" Now for the algorithm. "…an amazing new Flickr Feature.There are lots of things that make a photo 'interesting' (or not) in the Flickr.
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