It's a good point Gordon, however I'd argue that not many people (relatively) will be clicking those links *just* because they are popular. I'd argue that the links around the story (related to it, and/or in the same section as it) are much more likely to be clicked by the user - and even more so, the stories on indexes picked by editors as being important.
This is not to say that this view on the data isn't interesting (pretty much any new view on the data is, IMHO) - I think just because its popular doesn't mean its a 'good' enough reason for your average user to click it (which remember - we're not). Perhaps someone from News will have the results of a usability study, or even hard clickthrough data (now it's live) to correct me :-) J ________________________________________________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media & Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 0797 65 00729 A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies" ~ Groucho Marx -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 14 June 2006 15:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it! At 16:36 +0100 13/6/06, Ben Metcalfe wrote: >Hey folks, welcome to me on the other side! > >So the BBC News Website just released Live Stats features across the >news website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5071754.stm). > > But the visits (pageviews) will be affected but publishing the data in a positive feed back loop, surely? Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
