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SquidBlog » Blog Archive » Shaking up the Bestsellers: "At Squidoo, we’ve decided to shake things up a little. (Not that we suggest you shake your cream or milk containers.)

LensRank (how we determine a lens’s popularity) will still be based on the same formula, measuring things like traffic, click-outs, reader ratings, inbound links and affiliate sales. But now we’re going to change when that formula is calculated. On Monday we’re going to introduce a 14-day rolling window.

Which means what, exactly? Well, that our lensrank calculations will be done using data from the past two weeks, rather than looking strictly at a lens’s lifetime of publication. That will ensure that the freshest, timeliest and most actively updated lenses aren’t trumped by the lenses that perform well because they’ve been around longer. Squidoo is still rewarding the exact same qualities, but we’re tossing the grandfather clause out the window.

So, heads up that you might see some interesting changes in ranking this week. No, it’s not an accident. Yes, your lens can still rise to the top. Now that we have more than 13,000 lenses, the competition is getting a little stiffer!"

Squidoo: Lens on Lens

This lens is quite different than my other lenses:
it is really a personal journal, rather than a traditional Squidoo Lens.
It contains some personal views on Lens design, construction and promotion.
I am using it to record some of the design criteria I have tried, used or abandoned in attempts in the very early beta stages of Squidoo. Hence the title "Lens on Lens."

Some Ideas are likely to have wide spread applicability (indeed some that I used very early on were discoverd by others independently ... for example use of internal links to specific modules within a lens) while other (especially those being used in the Massive lenses I have developed (which in some ways seem to be the antithesis of the Squidoo concept) may not prove viable in the end....

If you are considering building your own lens, it may be useful to follow some of the pointers to other resources... even if you don't choose to use any of my techniques, there is a lot to be learned from the resources I point to.

Squidoo: Management Matters

This lens is based on a very simple premise....that Management does indeed matter, each of its modules looks at a different aspect of management that inturn matters to the overall practice of effective management.

While the aim of this lens is not to provide a TOE of Management (thats theory of everything!) a connection of this kind of thought is going to have to be taken into anything that does profess to be such a creation.... and nothing from the theorists, as yet, has come anywhere close.

It's chilly out there!

"The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the Gods;

Le Blog.: The wiener.

Le Blog.: The wiener.

EDS' Next Big Thing Blog : SOA Governance

EDS' Next Big Thing Blog : SOA Governance: "SOA Governance

by Charlie Bess

For years - yes literally years - I've been talking to EDS internal groups and clients about the different governance that is required to effectively perform Service Oriented Architectures."

Benford's Law

Benford's Law

Following Benford's Law, or Looking Out for No. 1

By Malcolm W. Browne

(From The New York Times, Tuesday, August 4, 1998)

Dr. Theodore P. Hill asks his mathematics students at the Georgia Institute of Technology to go home and either flip a coin 200 times and record the results, or merely pretend to flip a coin and fake 200 results. The following day he runs his eye over the homework data, and to the students' amazement, he easily fingers nearly all those who faked their tosses.

"The truth is," he said in an interview, "most people don't know the real odds of such an exercise, so they can't fake data convincingly."

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Learned Motor Programs Directly Influence The Visual Perception Of Movements

Learned Motor Programs Directly Influence The Visual Perception Of Movements

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