No snow here

Had a few pictures emailed and texted in from friends and family about the place of their snowy gardens and the like. Just very cold here, and mostly clear, though I can see some low lying cloud or heavy fog up on the hills.

On the top of both fog and pictures, I had a look at my most popular pictures on Flickr today, and here they are:

[img alt=Jellyfish - 1073 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/43817730_3b9d03c2e5_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Otters - 766 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/43817653_b863ac83c6_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Music quiz - 706 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/66774669_d5bd30a30d_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Me and Kaddy - 688 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/190216103_2328685e32_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Fog in Folkestone- 524 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/134942935_2280ea9f0e_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Otters! 478 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/43817691_b8009a7174_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Otters! 434 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/43817624_ed46988f11_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Otters! 409 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/43817606_135ca9deed_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Jellyfish - 291 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/43817718_67ec8cfb4a_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Old Holborn building - 278 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/172795120_62926a0a5d_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Otters! 273 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/43817228_26539b03bd_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=A friend's back, deep underground - 252 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/110792928_ae9d88859f_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Monterey aquarium - 242 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/43817738_f106828bc2_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=A sign in a closed down tube station - 240 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/110792733_f587cd81da_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=More closed down tube station - 236 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/110792669_2caa7234d8_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=My infant school class - 217 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/166633373_32afcd8353_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Secret tunnel to Whitehall? 213 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/110792960_beab48bc8a_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=Clare and me at 10 Downing Street - 208 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/159229273_fd8eb8970a_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=More underground - 208 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/110792650_5192d73d8b_s.jpg[/img] [img alt=More otters - 206 views]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/43817670_aab8a01f74_s.jpg[/img]

1073 hits for my most popular picture. Mostly otters, jellyfish, underground London and quizzes, though was odd to see that picture of the foggy window view in there... Maybe I posted it on here. Oh. Now I posted all these here will that skew the figures even more?

2007 :: Comment / reply

Subvert the internets!

Interesting article here about web privacy, this guy says (correctly) that all these cool Web 2.0 services are all about using us, the humble site visitors, to organise the web for the man (and give more info about ourselves than the government would ever ask for), for free:

Flickr is perhaps one of the most interesting ones. Search for 'cat', and Flickr will record the most popular photo clicked. By associating the colour and picture data within photos with keywords used to search, Yahoo is slowly building a database of human identification.

2006 :: Comment / reply