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the full horror of rock city (part 2)
11 Jan 08
Some months ago, I posted “part one” of our trip to Rock City. I had at one time planned a verbose post describing the amazingly bizarre underworld of the Fairyland Caverns, but never got around to it, and then forgot.
Herewith, 21 photos added to Jodi’s and my Rock City 07 flickr pool. So far, this one seems the most popular. . .
. . . but I think others are even creepier!
Posted by pzed on January 11, 2008 at 2.58pm
Categories: graven images
Comments on "the full horror of rock city (part 2)"
Hmm. I have a thought on what makes certain images popular. I left a comment on this photo last night. I know that when I’m looking at some people’s photostreams (not all, just the people whose comment threads I’m interested in) I’ll open the images with comments in order to read them, and just view the other photos in the stream. If other people do this as well it could skew the numbers.
Perhaps I should start commenting on only your photos with fewer views, to see if the views start increasing.
Posted by jodi on January 11, 2008 at 8.32pm :: link
I get what you’re saying, here, but it does make it sound as though you’re much better known on the internet than I, which seems a little, um, nevermind.
Posted by pzed on January 11, 2008 at 9.24pm :: link
No, that’s not what I mean. I mean, if I’m looking at someone’s photostream, I’m more likely to click on an image if it already has comments, because if I’m interested in an image, I’m also interested in its comments. But if I’m interested in an image (but only mildly so), then I don’t bother opening it if there are no comments to view. So I said I should comment on the photos but it could be anybody, so long as there are comments.
Posted by jodi on January 12, 2008 at 9.28am :: link
Yes, that too. Does flickr count duplicate views? If you go back to check a particularly fascinating comment thread, does the photo get a view each time?
Posted by pzed on January 12, 2008 at 9.57am :: link
Yes, I believe it does.
Posted by jodi on January 12, 2008 at 11.45am :: link
