The Dopiaza Set Manager is Cool

The Dopiaza Flickr Set Manager is kind of cool. It basically enables the automatic creation of Flickr sets (albums) based on all kinds of parameters, including the ranking that Flickr’s “interestingness” algorithm assigns to a given picture. My favourite use case is creating albums that contain all the pictures I took in a given year, ranked by Flickr’s “interestingness”, which is not really a measure of how interesting a given picture is but instead how “popular” based on how many interactions it got, how fast these happened and apparently when they were uploaded to Flickr (every user seems to get an interestingness boost at certain times of the month). Well, we know that popularity is only a sluttly little cousin of “interestingness”, but hey, let’s not get too snotty about it.

A killer feature that appears available but is not fully working (or at least not for me) is the ability to create a set that automatically picks all pictures with a common tag (say, Portrait, for example, to create a selection of all the pictures I have tagged as portraits) and ranking them by Flickr’s interestingness, but in general Mr. Dopiaza deserves a lot of thanks for this tool (it is free). It appears to be very popular amongst hardcore Flickr users.

Here some examples of what the tool can do, using my own pictures: