Educating the Wheelers

Andrew and I recently moved our photos off of a gallery installation on my friend’s server.  We had been mooching bandwidth for years, and it was time to pay our own way.  So we have been in the process of transferring everything to Flickr.  We’ve been doing them in monthly batches because we have a lot of photos [hey, we’re parents] and there are monthly upload quotas.

See, the funny thing about having your photos on Flickr instead of on a gallery site on your own domain … ?  Well, people look at the photos.  And not just family members that you email a url to when you post a new update.  People you don’t know look at the photos.  And comment on them!  It’s kind of weird to get used to, but who am I to talk?  I mean, I post about our finances on this website.  And people comment on them!  People I don’t know!

So what does the, uh, "general public" like to look at?  For soon-to-be obvious reasons, I’m not going to provide direct links here but according to my stats, it turns out that people like to look at dogs, post-partum cleavage, babies nursing, and children in diapers, where you can see the diaper in the photo.  I’m getting the same spooky feeling as I did when my big-belly photos from Audrey’s pregnancy somehow ended up being the #2 google result for a search term I’m not even going to mention and the next thing I know those photos have more than 9000 views.

I’m not even sure what I’m getting at here.