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Mar 14 2008

recipe for a social learning platform – #16 – surfacing algorithms – node cloud

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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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Table of contents for social learning site

  1. recipe for a social learning platform – #1
  2. recipe for a social learning platform – #2 – demo site
  3. recipe for a social learning platform – #3 – site & core modules
  4. recipe for a social learning platform – #4 – additional modules
  5. recipe for a social learning platform – #5 – modules hacks
  6. recipe for a social learning platform – #6 – social rated news
  7. recipe for a social learning platform – #7 – theme
  8. recipe for a social learning platform – #8 – login & access
  9. recipe for a social learning platform – #9 – views
  10. recipe for a social learning platform – #10 – no social rating?
  11. recipe for a social learning platform – #11 – files repository
  12. recipe for a social learning platform – #12 – distributed content
  13. recipe for a social learning platform – #14 – news feeds
  14. recipe for a social learning platform – #15 – surfacing algorithms
  15. recipe for a social learning platform – #16 – surfacing algorithms – node cloud
  16. recipe for a social learning platform – #17 – news feeds take two
  17. recipe for a social learning platform – #18 – making it social
  18. featuritis
  19. recipe for a social learning platform – navigation

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