The Blog Readership Index Project

Posted by mikko on March 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hey guys.

It’s Mikko again on a new project, the Blog Readership Index Project. Hope you’ll participate.
Here’s an excerpt from the project’s home (I created it anyway):

What is Blog Readership Index?

Overview

Graphs, graphs and graphs.

Isn’t it lovely to see the Philippine Stock Exchange Index rise and fall? How about making one for blogs? Let me call it the Blog Readership Index.

Yes, again I’m starting a new project. I’ve coded the backend’s core, frontend’s not finished.

Blog Readership Index aims to be a good measure of blog readership. It aims to track the growth or decline in blog readership levels.

The Blog Readership Index won’t have a maximum value. As long as your readership rises, your index will continually rise without limits.

The Parameters

The partial parameters to be used in measuring the Blog Readership Index are (1) number of FeedBurner Subscribers, (2) Technorati Authority and finally (3) the Alexa Rank.

As of the moment, the index is still unavailable. The formula in computing the index has not been formulated yet but the collection of raw data has started. You may include your blog in data collection by filling up this form.

How it works

It works this way. My web server keeps a database of Pinoy Blogs, either bulk-entered or blog-owner-entered. Then, I assigned it to run cron jobs daily. This cron jobs will fetch each blog’s Technorati authority, FeedBurner subscribers and Alexa rank. After fetching the data, it will be stored on a database.

Participate

You may participate in this project by including your blog in data collection using this form. You may also help in coding (you must know PHP and MySQL; GD Library knowledge is a plus); just tap me your intention by contacting me thru my blog’s contact form.

Plans

Graphs, graphs and more. I am planning to code a dynamic image that will generate a graph of a blog’s index. This will be generated by the industry-standard GD Library (sounds alien?).
Small buttons alyas chicklets. Yeah, chicklets. They are the one similar to the small FeedBurner graphics with the text [num_of_readers] readers. With this, you can brag your BRI by embedding this dynamic chicklet to your page.
API Support. Useful for web developers. I will develop an API so that 3rd party developers can fetch BRI data for their websites.
Top Movers (highest growth/decline). Self-explanatory.

Comments and Suggestions

Comments and suggestions are always welcome. To do so, just comment on my blog post regarding it accessible thru this link.

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