Comments on: Interestingness http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/interestingness/ ragingly ambivalent. or something. whatever. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:53:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: gillian http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/interestingness/#comment-81557 gillian Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-81557 Well, you have increased its "interestingness" by posting the photo here ;-) Well, you have increased its “interestingness” by posting the photo here ;-)

]]> By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/interestingness/#comment-81558 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-81558 From what I've gathered, it's some sort of magic algorithm that is more about how a photo stands out from the rest of your photos, rather than everyone else's. Say you post 100 photos, and they average 10 views, 0 faves, and 1 comment. You then post a photo that gets 1000 views, or 10 faves, or 100 comments (or some combinations thereof) - the interestingness says "hey! this photo is interesting (compared to what this person usually posts)" So it's possible for someone to grab #1 interestingness with a photo that gets viewed much less that the "most viewed" photo of the day. Regardless, it was just cool to see a photo bubble up that high. It's up to 25 now. Not bad for a throwaway photo I took while riding the bus to kill time while playing with the macro setting :-) From what I’ve gathered, it’s some sort of magic algorithm that is more about how a photo stands out from the rest of your photos, rather than everyone else’s. Say you post 100 photos, and they average 10 views, 0 faves, and 1 comment. You then post a photo that gets 1000 views, or 10 faves, or 100 comments (or some combinations thereof) – the interestingness says “hey! this photo is interesting (compared to what this person usually posts)” So it’s possible for someone to grab #1 interestingness with a photo that gets viewed much less that the “most viewed” photo of the day.

Regardless, it was just cool to see a photo bubble up that high. It’s up to 25 now. Not bad for a throwaway photo I took while riding the bus to kill time while playing with the macro setting :-)

]]> By: gillian http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/interestingness/#comment-81559 gillian Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 #comment-81559 I don't really get how that "Interestingness" works. One of my photos got up to at least #10 for its day (that I noticed), but the number keeps changing and it's back down again to #20-something. I guess it's just another way to get us users fetishizing our stats, but it seems kind of arbitrary. I don’t really get how that “Interestingness” works. One of my photos got up to at least #10 for its day (that I noticed), but the number keeps changing and it’s back down again to #20-something. I guess it’s just another way to get us users fetishizing our stats, but it seems kind of arbitrary.

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