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Geek Alert

February 23, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

My title at Edelman is Conversation Analyst and as far as I know, I'm the only one with this title. What it means is that on a weekly basis I get a pile of research to do and I hop to it using web apps.

Today the heavens opened and angels sand. Okay, maybe not, but I noticed the coolest tool on BoardReader. After you enter a search, you have to option to make a trends graph. Lots of sites offer trend graphs for blogs, but BoardReader is for forums.

What the fine programmers at BoardReader have done is allow the user to choose between relative and absolute numbers. Huh? You can have a graph that shows the percentage of total posts that use a specific term OR the absolute number of posts that used the term.

Hey Blogpulse and IceRocket, you listening? Can you add this feature, because honestly it is absolute values that we want, not percentage of total blog posts written on that day. I realize that over the lifespan of the blogosphere percentage can be more useful, but over a 2-6 month period I would prefer absolute.

Thank you BoardReader, I can go home geeky tonight. And by geeky, I mean happy.

posted by leah.jones

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