Comments on: #2? Really? http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/2-really/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/2-really/comment-page-1/#comment-35726 walt Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:34:50 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1027#comment-35726 Speaking of volatility: On 2/6, I was at #3. On 2/7, #13.

And on 2/8: #454. Now that’s volatility!

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/2-really/comment-page-1/#comment-35693 walt Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:39:03 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1027#comment-35693 Thanks for the explanation. So “In the library…” is indeed likely to be even more volatile than most. (And lately, I guess my own posts have been running long.)

One reason I have a bookmark for the page: It’s a source of liblogs that I would never have known about (and that aren’t in my latest study), worth looking over once in a while. And it’s fun.

]]> By: Dave Pattern http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/2-really/comment-page-1/#comment-35692 Dave Pattern Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:50:03 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1027#comment-35692 You’re spot on, Walt.

To try and figure out what’s “hot”, the code looks at the word usage frequency in the last 2 or 3 days compared to older blog posts. Specifically, the frequency is the number of posts the word appears in, divided by the total number of posts.

Where the frequency is higher in recent posts, a word is hotter. When the frequency is higher in older posts, the word is colder.

The score for the blog is calculated (and I’ll be the first to admit that this is a very crude way of doing it) by totalling up the values for each of the words in the 3 most recent posts from that blog. Colder words are given a negative value.

The total number of words in the blog post certainly seems to be a factor, with “wordy” blogs more likely to be at the top or bottom of the list. Presumably that’s because there is a greater chance to gain or lose points. Or, to put it the other way, a short blog post has less chance of gaining/losing lots of points.

Now, as to what the list truly represents, I really wouldn’t like to say!

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/2-really/comment-page-1/#comment-35676 walt Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:42:06 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1027#comment-35676 I don’t think it’s word count–it’s how the words you use reflect the “heat” of various words used in blogs: The extent to which you reflect Today’s Zeitgeist, in a way. And boy, is it variable!

]]> By: Brett Bonfield http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/2-really/comment-page-1/#comment-35675 Brett Bonfield Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:35:30 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1027#comment-35675 As I understand it, Hot or Not mostly just counts words. We’re long form, so we’re hot.

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