This post is a little off the beaten path .. recently a friend told me about a blog called Eclectic Commons that has a lot of offbeat information in it, and asked me for an opinion about what I thought - it's a fairly new site so there's not much profile data online.
One thing I can say about this blog- the information in Eclectic Commons deals with psychological states we can all relate to, like dealing with anger and disappointment - The Fault Is In The Stars, Not Ourselves or On Friendship when
"…Friendships evolve from acquaintances who become friends when vulnerabilities are revealed, acceptance extended and trust developed and solidified over time."
Interestingly, right next to that post is a drawing from the GapingVoid, whose author I just met a week ago and wrote up in Geek Dinner last night at Two Boots Pizza and afterwards ….. .
I found the post on Karma interesting as it describes the subject in chemical terms … and I have not heard it described that way before:
"…as analogous to the excitability that causes physical elements, or in this case, “thoughts, actions — causes and effects”, to combine and form completion and attain equilibrium (balance). "
I subscribed to Eclectic Commons RSS Feed because to read some of this stuff along with all the other web based information I read".
From a Web Analytics standpoint - the best thing I could say, at this point, for a blog so young is to put Quantcast JavaScript tags onto the site (to capture Demographics and Psycho graphics of the audience visiting the blog)- fitting in with the psychological nature of this blog), and Google Analytics (which I put several videos on how to set up here and on www.biggreenblog.com); wait a couple months and then contact me and I'll take a look at this site's analytics for free.
When I look at sites, on request, I usually insist on decent Web Analytics backend be installed first. Another thing that would help is making sure your domain name is not part of blogspot or Telledat, which can present problems for packages that might give public stats, such as Alexa. Whatever the blog is, it's better to come up as www.Eclecticcommons.com instead of http://eclecticcommons.telldat.com/.
However, Microsoft AdLabs tools should help here - and be able to give us some information about the audience for Eclectic Commons:
Audience for Eclectic Commons = Females 52%, Males 48% with the strongest audience 18 years old and younger. Is that the target audience for this blog….probably not - but that's what the Demographics Prediction tool picks up.
Eclectic Commons is viewed as Non Commercial page by the Microsoft Commercial Detection tool … Good. The Content Categorization Engine could not classify Eclectic Commons which might be caused by how the site is hosted..not sure.
But there was a potential problem for this site as Microsoft's Detecting Sensitive Web pages tool found content on Eclectic Commons that might be viewed "objectionable" by some search engines.
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Web address: http://eclecticcomm… Classification result: Sensitive Confidence score:
70.1% My guess is some of the writing had, what could be mistaken to be, curse words, at least, what this tool thinks is objectionable.
"….For example, content about porn, terrorism, or crime. This tool detects whether the input web page contains sensitive content and assigns a confidence score. "
In future writings - this is a red light to consider the difference between spoken language and written language - Search Engines are becoming more and more "precise" about picking out characteristics of a page and filtering on it. Too bad, in this case, the page is about spiritual stuff, but that part is not the problem.
That's enough about Eclectic Commons, an interesting blog.
