Added stats sidebar and stats in indexFolder listings of blogs

26-January-2005

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A minor new feature added yesterday, which increases sense of activity and presence in a blog. We now have an efficient summary of stats for a blog available for display in parent indexfolder listings etc, and display a Stats sidebar. This new sidebar will also act as a locus for linking to high-level aggregate views like external-links and discuss-categories.

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There is now a Stats for the weblog sidebar, showing overall number of posts, discusions, authors, categories and external-link resources, plus latest entry and discussion. All except the number of external links could previously have been figured out by studying the other sidebars, but this

  1. Puts the numbers in one place for at-a-glance sense of blog activity, and
  2. Gives a prominent place to put special links for new overall actions and aggregate views

    3. The only new aggregate view linked to from the stats sidebar so far is 'external links' which links to the new view for browsing external links (shared bookmarks). Others will follow shortly, eg discuss-categories.

    We in KnowNet are now using the data fetched by this method to display summaries of blog activity in the parent listings - ie in indexFolder listings which lit a weblog. This is an important feature in that it gives more sense in the site of the activity going on in the weblogs. We also will typically turn on the indexfolder option to show discussion RSS for indexfolders which contain blogs or nested discussion, but that only shows the latest few entries, so overall activity is not shown.

    Rough thoughts about other new views for giving sense of activity overall include a year-calendar view, showing month-calendars for a year, or for the entire blog history, to show the pattern of activity. (While I think about it, it would be nice to have an option to show discussion in calenday views... the data are easy to fetch).


Mike Malloch; 26-January-2005 09:32:03; forum (0) help

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