the magic donkey

For those who upload/follow flickrworld on a regular basis this name may something...

The magic donkey is the name given to the algorithim that scours many tens of thousands of daily uploads to flickr to come up with the most 'interesting' 500 at that point in time. 'Explore' is a word many have strong feelings for... be they love or hate.

Some people complain about people 'learning' how to get to explore and taking advantage, others enjoy being 'explored', others really don't care...

I did'nt connect the magic donkey concept to my latest flickr upload until somebody wrote a comment about this to my photo...

...it's just a photo that I took at the weekend on the beach at Great Yarmouth. I only live about half a mile away from the beach and being the island creature that I am, I love the sea and all that happens on the shore.

incidentally it did make it to Explore... it did seem like it would as it caused a flurry of hits and comments very quickly...

It does make me wonder whether people comment on my photos in exchange for comments' I've passed, but then I'm quite a bad flickrite... I comment very little (though I do fave a lot of work)... but then I only bother to pass comments on work that is really good

My line of thought is... "would I have been proud to have taken this photo, or would I have been able to take this at all"

this makes me comment very selectively

and i really don't have the time to be playing around....

flickr has helped me a lot as I have spent so much time absorbing visual information, and learnt to distinguish (or so I hope), the wheat from the chaff...

I have also made some friends... but I like flickr to remain for me what it is.... an inspiration, and a window to what others are doing... not any social networking thingy

I have other things to do at the moment ;)

really... though.. is my work interesting enough?

I hope so :)