Post Frequency and Other Odds and Ends

I apologize for the low post frequency this month.

You can read why I'm a bit more conscious of that fact by clicking here.

Joseph's post at that link, about post frequency and Holmes and Watson is a perfect example of what the social science of social is all about.

Speaking of the social science of social - the Syncapse Measurement Science team is working on the guerrilla analytics dataset - and I'd like to have both a cleaned dataset and a white paper summarizing the results out within two weeks. I reckon you ought to be updated.

There were four Peer Reviewed Research Articles posted in January for your interest:

http://www.webanalyticsassociation.org/en/art/756/
http://www.webanalyticsassociation.org/en/art/748/
http://www.webanalyticsassociation.org/en/art/747/
http://www.webanalyticsassociation.org/en/art/742/

I'm really enjoying this WAA program and I hope other members are getting some value out of it too.

Finally, what has been really consuming a lot of cycles lately is a text. There's a lot rattling around in the head about the connections between analytics, statistics, the scientific method, social, language, how the brain processes language, radio, TV, interactive, information architecture, the sales/researcher divide, doctors...and I think it's a story that's important enough to tell.

And that's just it - how to tell that story - and in a way that will actually make sense. ;)

Well, that's what I've been up to. Everything else is privileged.

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Experiment #1

The link attached leads to an experiment:

You can click here to reach it.

It's the first in what I intend to be a series of posting, sharing of data sets, and publishing analysis: a continuation Guerrilla Analytics initiative.

I'm not going to talk about the hypothesis driving this particular experiment. It's a big go in terms of getting some facts on the table.


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On ChangeCamp

ChangeCamp is a nice continuation of what I think should happen.

On Thursday's The National with Peter Mansbridge, I listened to the panel chortle about how meaningless 100,000 facebook fans complaining about prorogation was.

The principle complaint against social media participation?

That it was easy for just anybody to click a button.

Isn't that the point? To make democracy easier? More accessible?

It's because I believe that we need to reform the government-public interface that I'm going to support ChangeCamp.

What's possible?

To Canada: Social Media in 2010 is to the CBC in 1935 is to the railroad in 1889.


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