More Patches on my flickr Explore scout badge

1. P5233079, 2. 27-mar_04, 3. Always look on the bright side..., 4. waiting for the comet, 5. _IGP2361_2_3_norfolk_gaol_gate, 6. #106_IGP4642-Australia Rock II, 7. Autostitch panorama sunset II, 8. #167 Autumn Leaves

Flickr actually don’t choose the photos to be included in Flickr Explore manually, they are based on a combination of flickrs interestingness algorthmn,  which does in part quanitify populaity, activity within the flickr community and trending tags. The result is an ever changing collection of very original, interesting and astounding images. Its an honour to be included occasionally.

Scout, by big , huge labs, is a nice little app that keeps track of any of your photos included in the explore stream and makes a small “badge” of those images of yours (or a given username) that have made it into explore.

Scout & Egosurfing

If you are flickr member you might like to use one of fd's flickr toys called scout. It bills itself as the quickest way to see if you are listed among the 500 photos choosen each day to be used for the flickr explore page. Better still it will make the photos it finds into a neat poster. It is fun, if you overlook the fact that it is really designed to be just another way to egosurf!

1. Tribute to Steve Irwin (low isles), 2. P3290095 (look at the reflection lower left), 3. Always look on the bright side..., 4. 27-mar_04, 5. P5233079

another way to egosurf