As I delve further into Flickr and expore the millios of photos on the site, it's hard not to be impressed by the incredible talent by the thousands of photographers who choose to share their work with the rest of the world. The people who run Flickr are not immune to this and have created a section on the site to showcase the best of the best in a place they like to call "Interestingness". This is what they like say about the mouthful of a word:

Besides being a five syllable word suitable for tongue twisters, it is also an amazing new Flickr Feature.

There are lots of things that make a photo 'interesting' (or not) in the Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic photos and stories are added to Flickr.

We've added some pages (and changed some existing ones) to help you explore Flickr's most interesting photos. Before you start though, you might want to take your phone off the hook, send your boss to an executive training session and block off some time on your schedule, because we don't think you're going to be walking away from your screen any time soon. Beautiful, amazing, moving, striking - explore and discover some of Flickr's Finest.

Every day there are 500 photos that are honored on this page. In the last week or so, I've had at least 5 photos show up on the Interestness page, including three on page one (pretty cool, huh?) mostly on the strength on Fil's insane behavior when I take shower.

Don't know how they got there, the whole process is something of a mystery in the Flickr community, but nonetheless, they are there. I'm going to give you the links, but it's quite possible that the time you read this and click through to these links, they will be gone, because the quality of the interestingness clearly changes over time and photos shift position for what reason no one knows but they do.

Here they are:

Jumping in with Two Feet - 07JAN06
photo page
interestingness link

Fil Goes to Town - 06JAN06
photo page
interestingness link

Role Reversal - 05JAN06
photo page
interestingness link

There's a Cat on My Head - 03JAN06
photo page
interestingness link

Filemu & Makelani - 30 DEC 05
photo page
interestingness link