S'Wonderful, S'Delightful, S'Interestingness

Flickr is doing some pretty cool stuff lately. Here's the shcoop (and I did mean to shpell it that way) from Stewart Butterfield, Flickr creator:

• "First up is clustering, a better way to explore photos through tags. You can still see the most recent photos with a given tag (say, summer) but now you can also root around the finer distinctions: summer beach vacations versus summer flowers and nature - and all the clusters are collected on one page.
• The other new feature is called interestingness and it's huge! A long time in the making, interestingness is a ranking algorithm based on user behavior around the photos taking into account some obvious things like how many users add the photo to their favorites and some subtle things like the relationship between the person who uploaded the photo and the people who are commenting (plus a whole bunch of secret sauce)."

Okey dokey, so check it out. I did some experimenting:

• Beach: Everything to do with beaches that you can possibly think of. Some really truly beautiful pictures here.
• Carnival: Again, some truly amazing pics. I wish I could make my camera work like that!
• Paris: Again, anything you can think of in this cluster, including the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and the Arc de Triomphe. Vive le France!
• Flickr's finest photos are included in the Interesting section. Check out August's calendar so far.
• Be sure to explore the Explore section; you'll find calendars, recent uploads, sets, groups, and more.