See the most popular articles on the site. For years, our writers have asked for some idea of how their writings are doing. We've taken one small step on a major path we've started upon.

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I like to do things better-- better than I've seen them done. This first step is a very tiny one, compared to what we have spelled out on the drawing board, which will be appearing on the site in weeks to come. But already, it does things you won't see on the NY Times, or anywhere else, allowing you to see popularity for different categories of content. One of the first things we'll be adding shortly will be the ability to see popularity over different time periods. No, we will not be able to go back before yesterday. We don't have the data.

So, go to any article and check out the right hand column, below the fold.

You'll see a popularity box. It's based on the number of forwarded articles (using tell a friend) for different content areas.

We just started collecting the data yesterday, so you won't see many items for some of them. We'll be fine tuning this tool, adding a lot of other ways to assess performance, and soon, will have popularity measures for every tag, every locale, every directory level, for each category of content (and yes, we will, later this year, begin offering products-- probably books and DVDs for starters.)

The popularity algorithms we're using now will be drastically enhanced, made more sophisticated. We are thinking about asking people to rate articles and comments for the following:

Importance: how important is this content for members to read NOW?
Value: Does this content item provide new info, ideas, facts, perspectives you find useful, helpful?
Well Written: is the writing above average, exceptional, worth noting?
Humor: Does it make you smile or laugh?
Kind Does it touch your heart, show kindness, nurturing, positivity?
Negative- Mean, nasty, un-civil, unpleasant

I'm not married to these. categories or the words used to describe them. Your observatioins, comments and suggestions are encouraged.

Here's what newstrust.org uses:

 

The goal is to rate articles, diaries, comments, and show the scores people have as part of their thread, along with the number of comments, diaries, etc. I hope that showing negative and positive will encourage kinder, more civil behavior.

We're a bottom up site. Your voice counts in th is community. Use it here to shape the future of the internet, because we're cutting new edges right here.

Do you know writers who would like to post on a site that is THE leading media site, in terms of cutting edge technology? We'd like to see articles from all over the world, on all kinds of subjects.

Oh, BTW, we've also just done an analysis of the 8000+ responders to our demographic questions, out of over 15,000 registered members.

Some interesting data: 7% of our member are conservative. Some of them signed up to post a comment and never return. Some are regulars.

Here's a chart for education. 93% of our readers have some college. Not too shabby.

Education	Lmtd	HSGrad	SomeColl	CollGrad	AdvDeg(s)	Total
Education	(193)-2%	(476)-5%	(2188)-24%	(3155)-34%	(3274)-35%	9286
Total: 100% from 9286 members

We're sorting out what to do with this info. And soon, we'll be doing dem by dem (demographic against demographic) cross tabulation. With the large numbers we have we'll get some very interesting information. But with about 30 demographic items, that will add up to almost 1800 charts. As though I don't have enough to do. But I'm a poll data junkie. What can I do. So, go to your log in page, click on profile and fill in your demographic information. YOu can see that it is not shown . We use it for these charts and to analyze the polls our members create-- another unique feature no other site on the web has.

These features are developed for OpEdNEws by populum.com.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

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