Comments on: Top 10 Posts on This Blog and an Overview of the Ranking Phenomenon http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon Marketing, Analytics and Entertainment Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:18:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jean-Francois Belisle http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/#comment-255 Jean-Francois Belisle Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:10:57 +0000 http://jfbelisle.com/?p=966#comment-255 Really interesting comment Phil. I completely agree that top 10 on social bookmarking websites are awful for diversity and for advancing/diffusing new knowledge. An interesting analogy would to musical radio stations. Generally for most of these radio stations, you can easily apply a Pareto law where 20% of the songs are played 80% of the time. Thus, I completely agree with your last three points which stipulates an approach that is more similar to a long tail than one that is related to a Pareto distribution. Really interesting comment Phil. I completely agree that top 10 on social bookmarking websites are awful for diversity and for advancing/diffusing new knowledge. An interesting analogy would to musical radio stations. Generally for most of these radio stations, you can easily apply a Pareto law where 20% of the songs are played 80% of the time. Thus, I completely agree with your last three points which stipulates an approach that is more similar to a long tail than one that is related to a Pareto distribution.

]]> By: PhilGo20 http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/#comment-250 PhilGo20 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:56:01 +0000 http://jfbelisle.com/?p=966#comment-250 My main problem with "top ten list" is that they obviously reinforce and accelerate a pattern and therefore often generate way more views and engagement than typical content discovery through natural navigation would. The more visible they are, the more chance there is that this content will forever stay the top 10 content. So to help 1) they should be very limited in time (top ten of the last hours, day, week) 2)website should include easier acess to random content or better, content matching the way the user got to the site (what page did he landed on) 3) hot now is better than top 10 My main problem with “top ten list” is that they obviously reinforce and accelerate a pattern and therefore often generate way more views and engagement than typical content discovery through natural navigation would. The more visible they are, the more chance there is that this content will forever stay the top 10 content.

So to help
1) they should be very limited in time (top ten of the last hours, day, week)
2)website should include easier acess to random content or better, content matching the way the user got to the site (what page did he landed on)
3) hot now is better than top 10

]]> By: Jean-François Belisle http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/#comment-227 Jean-François Belisle Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:29:23 +0000 http://jfbelisle.com/?p=966#comment-227 Hey hey Marc 1) Well, this is always useful for both the readers and the blogger to generate some traffic. 2) Lol, poor crabs to be compared to a STD. I think only the "T" can stand there. As long as it is only transmitted to your way of writting we're still OK. Hey hey Marc
1) Well, this is always useful for both the readers and the blogger to generate some traffic.
2) Lol, poor crabs to be compared to a STD. I think only the “T” can stand there. As long as it is only transmitted to your way of writting we’re still OK.

]]> By: Marc Poulin http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/#comment-226 Marc Poulin Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:16:45 +0000 http://jfbelisle.com/?p=966#comment-226 Thank you. 1) I just added on my "to do" list to write a blog post on my most popular posts. 2) I thought that crabs was a STD. Now I know better Thank you.
1) I just added on my “to do” list to write a blog post on my most popular posts.
2) I thought that crabs was a STD. Now I know better

]]> By: Jean-Francois Belisle http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/#comment-183 Jean-Francois Belisle Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:53:34 +0000 http://jfbelisle.com/?p=966#comment-183 Thanks for your compliment Jean-Francois, this is really appreciated. I really like your example related to the importance of writing more and more documents that can be related to the CRABS acronym, thanks for sharing. I think that this kind of business writing is a must-learn for anyone early in their career. Thanks for your compliment Jean-Francois, this is really appreciated. I really like your example related to the importance of writing more and more documents that can be related to the CRABS acronym, thanks for sharing. I think that this kind of business writing is a must-learn for anyone early in their career.

]]> By: Jean-Francois Monfette http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/#comment-182 Jean-Francois Monfette Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:23:24 +0000 http://jfbelisle.com/?p=966#comment-182 Congratulations on your 6 months of blogging. Your blog already outlived the majority of blogs. I find your articles very interesting. While reading this post, I found the CRABS acronym very interesting. It reminded me of a lesson I learned in my previous career. I was working in finance and I had to write a memo explaining the new margin requirements on some options trading strategies. I wrote a long text and put in a few examples. In the end, it was one long boring text understandable only to a few. My manager told me :"It's good work, but no one will read it." He then proceeded to take my work and turn it into a simple, clear and easy to understand table. Just one fast look at it and you could get all the information. He was also nice enough to keep my name on the memo, for which I received a lot of good feedback ! From then on I learned that tables are very useful. I know that tables are not rankings, but rankings perform the same way. You can get a lot of information in just one look. Congratulations on your 6 months of blogging. Your blog already outlived the majority of blogs. I find your articles very interesting.

While reading this post, I found the CRABS acronym very interesting. It reminded me of a lesson I learned in my previous career. I was working in finance and I had to write a memo explaining the new margin requirements on some options trading strategies. I wrote a long text and put in a few examples. In the end, it was one long boring text understandable only to a few. My manager told me :”It’s good work, but no one will read it.” He then proceeded to take my work and turn it into a simple, clear and easy to understand table. Just one fast look at it and you could get all the information. He was also nice enough to keep my name on the memo, for which I received a lot of good feedback ! From then on I learned that tables are very useful.
I know that tables are not rankings, but rankings perform the same way. You can get a lot of information in just one look.

]]> By: Jean-Francois Belisle http://jfbelisle.com/2009/10/top-10-posts-on-this-blog-and-an-overview-of-the-ranking-phenomenon/#comment-171 Jean-Francois Belisle Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:08:36 +0000 http://jfbelisle.com/?p=966#comment-171 Well, it seems like rankings help to structure the information but it doesn't really help to generate comments, lol. Well, it seems like rankings help to structure the information but it doesn’t really help to generate comments, lol.

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