Comments for Steve Evans

Comment on Link madness; news will eat itself through poor UX by Tokyobling

Tokyobling — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:59:50 +0000

Spot on observations. I really liked the numbers. 450 links on one page? I feel like a luddite for thinking that 3 would be more than enough on any site.

It would be great to read a follow up on this post, what the situation looks like a year after.

And another post subject wish: Link farming. This is something I come across thousands of times a month while working on my own blog.

Comment on From a web of links, to a web of likes, to a web of sentiment by Ellie K

Ellie K — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:26:29 +0000

The folks at SAS as well as IBM, Microsoft Research and academia have been trying to design effective sentiment analysis metrics for awhile. Based on SAS blog posts, as well as a research video from Microsoft that I saw recently, it is none too easy to effectively capture and quantify online user sentiment. Surprisingly, this seems to be the case despite having all sorts of computational linguistics expertise, very high end analytical software applications (like SAS or IBM’s SPSS) and lots of processing power.

I would post links, but I’m not certain that that is allowed on your site. There is no notice saying “HTML allowed for style”. Whenever I see that phrase, it makes me think, “Hmmm, my usage of markup actually has nothing to do with my sense of style, or lack thereof”! But I digress.

Actually, Microsoft’s new media player is really amazing (that’s how I viewed their sentiment analysis video). You can find it on the Microsoft Research web site. Yahoo! also has an excellent media player with nice browser compatibility support and other features. Unfortunately neither Yahoo’s nor Microsoft’s players are likely to get much attention. Usage frequency establishes format standards, for better or worse. But that’s the way of the world.

Your blog is pleasant reading. I enjoyed the airplane travel photos and links in particular. I do wonder why you chose a domain name with a dash in it: steve-e as I thought that doing so was an SEO no-no? But on those matters I have no knowledge, as I’m a statistician and risk management type.

Good luck with your business endeavors. I found my way here from the Artemis site about catastrophic risk and re-insurance. Now THAT was an excellent site name, Artemis!

Comment on From a web of links, to a web of likes, to a web of sentiment by Recording Studio Will

Recording Studio Will — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:07:05 +0000

I certainly agree Google should use analytics data – not just no of visits but look at how long users stay and how many pages they browse.
If a user left a comment (and it could be recorded in analytics) and they had stayed on the site quite a while that could be a great barometer in measuring engagement.

Comment on Rules of engagement (my personal social media policy) by Sharon Burke

Sharon Burke — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:13:54 +0000

Doing some social media research – for my own personal awareness and learning – came across your policy. I appreciate it’s simplicity … funny how some of the basics never change!