Will’s Similiblog

I’ve just been playing around with an elaboration of using commenting information as an algorithm for surfacing community blog posts (see #15 in this series) - and came across what looks like an elegant interface for this.

I’ve installed the Node Cloud module; cloned my Community Blog view (make sure that the Fields section is blank - this is required for Table or List view, but will interfere with a Node Cloud view; filters should be cloned from the Community Blog view); selected Node Cloud as the view type; and set for sort order #1 Comment: Last Comment Date (descending), and sort order #2 Comment: Comment Count (descending).

Blog posts (and imported distributed content) which have been most recently commented on will now float to the top of this cloud page (these will be listed by post title in the cloud); and font size will reflect the # of comments/replies made to a post. My rather visual mind wraps around this display nicely.

Check it out, in my sandbox site at http://sandbox.similibus.org (set up a user account and play around on the site).

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