Comments on: Quick and Dirty Comment Analysis http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/ Building Engaging Learning Experiences through Instructional Design and E-Learning Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:37:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Christy Tucker http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7671 Christy Tucker Tue, 27 May 2008 20:49:49 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7671 Thanks for the explanation Melanie. That makes sense; Michele did say that she had used the site before, so that must be why it picked up the February date. I can see that most people wouldn't actually be looking for stats farther back. Your service is more about filtering than analyzing; it just happens to have this nice side effect for analysis. Thanks for the explanation Melanie. That makes sense; Michele did say that she had used the site before, so that must be why it picked up the February date. I can see that most people wouldn’t actually be looking for stats farther back. Your service is more about filtering than analyzing; it just happens to have this nice side effect for analysis.

]]> By: Melanie Baker http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7670 Melanie Baker Tue, 27 May 2008 18:22:12 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7670 Hi Christy - Currently feeds analyzed only go back to last July because that's when the functionality was first put into production. Dates later than that (e.g. February 26, as mentioned) would be when the blog/feed was first submitted to us or how far back the RSS feed for that site lets us see. (I.e. not every feed contains/displays posts going back to a site's beginnings.) For those who want the biggest possible picture of their stats, we can clear the feed in our system and run the analysis again, if the feed settings have been changed to give us access further back. We haven't automated that yet simply because there haven't been that many requests for it. Hope that sheds a bit of light. Please feel free (Michele, too) to give me a holler if you'd like older stats included, or have any other questions or suggestions. Hi Christy – Currently feeds analyzed only go back to last July because that’s when the functionality was first put into production.

Dates later than that (e.g. February 26, as mentioned) would be when the blog/feed was first submitted to us or how far back the RSS feed for that site lets us see. (I.e. not every feed contains/displays posts going back to a site’s beginnings.)

For those who want the biggest possible picture of their stats, we can clear the feed in our system and run the analysis again, if the feed settings have been changed to give us access further back. We haven’t automated that yet simply because there haven’t been that many requests for it.

Hope that sheds a bit of light. Please feel free (Michele, too) to give me a holler if you’d like older stats included, or have any other questions or suggestions.

]]> By: Can You Use Aids To Help Conversations? | Mobile Technology in TAFE http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7666 Can You Use Aids To Help Conversations? | Mobile Technology in TAFE Mon, 26 May 2008 01:10:43 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7666 [...] I’m very pleased Christy Tucker showed me how to do a Quick and Dirty Comment Analysis using aidRSS. More importantly aidRSS is actually designed to help people like Ann, Confessions of [...] [...] I’m very pleased Christy Tucker showed me how to do a Quick and Dirty Comment Analysis using aidRSS. More importantly aidRSS is actually designed to help people like Ann, Confessions of [...]

]]> By: Christy Tucker http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7646 Christy Tucker Thu, 22 May 2008 14:46:06 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7646 I haven't tried Particls. Actually, although I've known about AideRSS for a while, I haven't really been using it myself. I have thought about offering it as a link on my site though. It effectively filters out most of the bookmarks posts. I know that most of my readers enjoy those posts (well, they at least tolerate them, or they wouldn't have subscribed). However, I have had at least one person tell me that he reads the posts but filters out the bookmarks himself because they aren't relevant. (He's a web programmer. I have no idea how he did the filter, but it's probably something he wrote himself.) It's probably something I'll experiment with more after this comment challenge is done. I subscribed to the "best of" feed for my blog just to see what it picks up and how it works. I haven’t tried Particls. Actually, although I’ve known about AideRSS for a while, I haven’t really been using it myself. I have thought about offering it as a link on my site though. It effectively filters out most of the bookmarks posts.

I know that most of my readers enjoy those posts (well, they at least tolerate them, or they wouldn’t have subscribed). However, I have had at least one person tell me that he reads the posts but filters out the bookmarks himself because they aren’t relevant. (He’s a web programmer. I have no idea how he did the filter, but it’s probably something he wrote himself.)

It’s probably something I’ll experiment with more after this comment challenge is done. I subscribed to the “best of” feed for my blog just to see what it picks up and how it works.

]]> By: Michael Clarke http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7645 Michael Clarke Thu, 22 May 2008 14:37:00 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7645 Looks interesting - could certainly do with something like this for my social media/tech blog reading. I've been using Particls but found it just too intrusive and frequently feeding me articles I'd already read days previously. Looks interesting – could certainly do with something like this for my social media/tech blog reading. I’ve been using Particls but found it just too intrusive and frequently feeding me articles I’d already read days previously.

]]> By: Christy Tucker http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7643 Christy Tucker Thu, 22 May 2008 12:17:28 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7643 I wonder if I did a different variation on the URL than you did for your analysis. That could explain why it said it didn't recognize your site. I've had posts that didn't get comments but have been bookmarked, too. I also noticed that AideRSS picks up scrapers as trackbacks, which artificially inflates my <a href="http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/one-keyboard-and-mouse-two-computers/" rel="nofollow">Synergy features</a> post in their ranking. I wonder if I did a different variation on the URL than you did for your analysis. That could explain why it said it didn’t recognize your site.

I’ve had posts that didn’t get comments but have been bookmarked, too. I also noticed that AideRSS picks up scrapers as trackbacks, which artificially inflates my Synergy features post in their ranking.

]]> By: Michele Martin http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7642 Michele Martin Thu, 22 May 2008 10:50:28 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7642 P.S. I ended up looking at my "best" posts (the top 28%) because the top 20 were based on more than just comments and in looking at the best posts, I got more posts with comments. P.S. I ended up looking at my “best” posts (the top 28%) because the top 20 were based on more than just comments and in looking at the best posts, I got more posts with comments.

]]> By: Michele Martin http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/quick-and-dirty-comment-analysis/#comment-7641 Michele Martin Thu, 22 May 2008 10:32:53 +0000 http://christytucker.wordpress.com/?p=496#comment-7641 Hi Christy--thanks for the suggestion to use AideRSS. That's definitely a quicker way to do things. Although as you say, it only goes back to July 2007, in my case I don't know that I had a ton of posts with lots of comments before then. What would be great is if you could rank by number of comments or number of del.icio.us saves because I've found that those don't always go together. I've had several posts that generated relatively little conversation but lots of saves to del.icio.us and vice versa. Strangely, I have analyzed my blog there before--not sure why it made it look like I hadn't. Thanks for the tip! Hi Christy–thanks for the suggestion to use AideRSS. That’s definitely a quicker way to do things. Although as you say, it only goes back to July 2007, in my case I don’t know that I had a ton of posts with lots of comments before then. What would be great is if you could rank by number of comments or number of del.icio.us saves because I’ve found that those don’t always go together. I’ve had several posts that generated relatively little conversation but lots of saves to del.icio.us and vice versa.

Strangely, I have analyzed my blog there before–not sure why it made it look like I hadn’t. Thanks for the tip!

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