What Fires You Up?

11/01/2006

 

Black Cat Pumpkin
Originally uploaded by cobalt123.

This is quite a fluke, but this photo of my cat posted to flickr.com ended up being featured on yahoo.com yesterday for Halloween. I usually have about 28 to 120 views on a normal photo on my photo stream, so you can imagine how astonished I was to wake up Halloween morning and get the word from a friend that yahoo had featured it on the home page. At 9 am Tuesday, there were 9,000 views. 3 hours later, there were 15,000 views! Then about 6:30 pm there were 31,000 views and by my bedtime last night, it had reached 35,000 views. What a stitch! I must say that it boggles the mind to know that tens of thousands of folks clicked on the photo. When yahoo.com features a photo, you can click on the photo and it takes the visitor directly to the photo page on flickr.com. So, I imagine there are many folks who saw the photo that did not click. So what does that add up to? Gads, hard to comprehend that many folks seeing one humble little photo of a cat that is only barely patiently waiting for his breakfast that morning.

BJ 11/01/2006 08:50:00 PM