2012-03-06
post/18864084126
I’m taking this one part out of context because I find that my use of favourites confuses people. I don’t repost things very often - maybe once every two or three days - but I mark up to a dozen things as favourites every day. Now that I can more or less trust Twitter to report them, their previous function as a bookmark to myself has been joined by those of being a nod to the poster, as well as a little recommendation to those who take the time to look (either at the activity page, a site like Stellar, or via the API).
In other words, Twitter’s favourites have become as worthwhile as Flickr’s, which have served the same purposes for a while now.
(I have a huge draft on favourites from last summer which needs splitting into pieces. Eventually.)
2011-06-29
post/7035845755
For a long time, I’ve maintained a set called Your Favourites on Flickr, which contains those photos that lots of people have marked as, well, a favourite. For ages I did this by hand, but I’ve finally got lazy enough to write a little script that does it. As it’s only a one-off, gist seemed the best place, but I thought I’d still write a short blurb for it.
It’s pretty straightforward. It only uses two methods, flickr.stats.getPopularPhotos and flickr.photosets.editPhotos, but that’s enough to generate a set of 81 photos (making a nice square from the new nine-wide thumbnail layout on set pages).
Of course, it would be nice if this had a web interface, and if it offered to let you choose a set to use or to create a new one, and so on, but I already had the set, and like I said, I’m lazy. Feel free to fork it and make it do any of that stuff.
One thing to note is that the flickr.stats methods are only available to pro users who’ve opted in to statistics, so this isn’t that useful if you’re not one. Sorry.
(Ironically, the original un-inverted picture of a star I’m using to illustrate the post is no longer in the set. Ah well.)
2011-01-12
Mapfaves
- jerakeen: I was all thrilled when straup faved my flickr shapefile pictures
- jerakeen: now I see he's just faving around anything with a map, the dirty slag.
- blech: so quotable.
2009-12-07
post/273545102
Dean Allen, creator of the just-closed favrd, in a comment on The Stars Look Down on Jeffrey Zeldman’s site. +1. (previously.)
(On the other hand, now favourites have been “private”, or at least obscure, for so long, I’ve heard people saying that making them more visible would stop them using them. Sigh.)
