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Your idea's better than mine. 
I sometimes feel like a little kid amongst adults, but that's ok. There are worse adults' knees to be wandering amongst.
majroj
posted by
majroj
on April 6, 2003 at 9:18 AM
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Single-post blog
Hmm... I'm not surprised fewer people are reading your single-post blog. To me, a good blog is one that's updated often -- ideally, several times a day -- as you generally do with Opinionated Bitch.
Reading a single-post blog feels like reading a single page of a book: valuable, but strangely lacking.
posted by
Humayun
on April 5, 2003 at 2:12 AM
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There are two ways to go to count Most Popular Reviewer
Here are some of the ways it could be done.
I'll use Epinions.com as an example because I'm familiar with their system. Most Popular Reviews are broken up into two general categories: the reviews that receive the highest number of "hits" (unique visitors), and those reviews that earn the most money for a given month. (Reviews that get the highest number of unique visitors or page views are further broken down into their respective categories - the most-visited book reviews, most-visited electronics reviews, and so forth.)
Something similar could be done here. Three categories could be developed: Most Popular Blog (using unique visitors as the way of judging the popularity of a blog), Most Popular BN Blogger (using the same criterion), and Highest-Earning Blogger (using the obvious criterion of money, ranking people by their earnings as measured in US dollars). My original idea was simply to have a place to go to find out how everyone in the system was doing, rather than a link to Highest-Earning Blogger, though. The button for that link would read something like "Bloggers" or "BN Members" or something similar, making it much closer to the "top posting member" link I can get to on one of my message-board sites. (That "top posting member" button actually leads to an area in which everyone with access to that board is ranked by how many posts they've made - if you have 0 posts to that message board, you're at the end of the line, while the top poster is the one at the top of the list, but everyone makes it onto the list just by virtue of membership and ability to post on that board.)
posted by
kidnykid
on April 5, 2003 at 1:29 AM
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With a Catch...
I like Kidnykid's idea overall. I think it would greatly help to get rid of those post that are created in a new blog each and every time the writer posts anything.
However, I have one blog which is inclusive of only one post--In An Instant. I did it in such a manner on purpose: 1) it is a long post, 2) it is a personal essay which doesn't really fit in any of my other blogs.
Honestly, I have been thinking of taking the blog down completely since no one seems to be reading it. We'll see.
posted by
Jemmie211
on April 4, 2003 at 10:58 PM
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Sounds good!
This page is definitely on our list of future improvements. Although there haven't been a lot of requests for it yet, we expect it to become increasingly valuable as the Network grows.
This will bring up some interesting issues, such as how the rankings should be calculated.
posted by
Humayun
on April 4, 2003 at 8:43 AM
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