wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: stats for discussion
Yuval Levy 2008-Jul-01 11:35:00
Bernhard Vogl wrote:
> I can replay the thoughts of Bjorn.
+1 in favor of interactivity / feedback. I agree with Bj?rn that the
thumbs down on interactivity was a wrong decision.
> No numbers needed
what you list are mostly numbers :-)
GoogleAnalytics has already been on the pages for quite some time, so
the organizers have numbers (at least for those viewers that do not
script-block it).
There used to be a time when it was possible to collect numbers by
yourself, at least for individual entries not fullscreen, by integrating
a web-beacon in the text. No longer possible since much HTML is filtered
out from the entry field, I guess for privacy/security reasons.
> - do they just visit one page and leave or are they captivated by the panoramas?
while stats for your individual entry could be captured by a web-beacon
and would be an individual choice if the organizers would allow
web-beacons again (I think Willy used to have them), this sort of
request would require consensus because the stats for all entries would
be affected. I don't mind you (or anybody else) accessing stats for my
entry, but I don't want to offend the sensitivities of those who prefer
not. Hence regulating the access to the GoogleAnalytics stat may be more
tricky than simply allowing a web-beacon on the individual submission pages.
> I'm pretty sure there are several of us who burst from curiousity ;-)
to be honest, yes, I am somewhat a curious statistics fetishist and I
regularly look up the stats on my blog at
http://panospace.wordpress.com/ - but I rather see the interaction that
Bj?rn mentions: Comments! With a switch to enable or disable them, so
that each artist can decide for entry by entry whether to allow or not
comments - like in modern blogs.
Yuv