[]Work on bsuite3 is progressing well, thanks to help from Zach and Matt, who are collaborating with me on completely rearchitecting how stats are collected and reported. This, however, is not bs3. It’s a transitional release intended to fix some bugs in b2 and make upgrading easier. This upgrade is recommended for all current bsuite [...]

Posted April 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, bug, bug fix, bug fixes, bugs, fix, fixes, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, stable, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 82 Comments.

[]Update: bugfix release b2v7 available.
It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin. I’d been hoping to finish up a series of new features, but those have been delayed and this is mostly just a collection of bugfixes. This update is recommended for all bsuite users.
bsuite Features

Tracks page [...]

Posted July 24, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, bug, bug fix, bug fixes, bugs, fix, fixes, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 77 Comments.

Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite.
There are arguments about whether user-contributed tags are useful or even valid, or whether they should be stored in my site or aggregated at places like del.ici.ous. But who’s to worry about such questions? Who’s to worry when you [...]

Posted March 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bsuite, collabulary, folksonomy, tag, tagging, tags, user contributed, wisdom of the crowd, wpopac. 4 Comments.

Flickr does tags better than any other, so far as I can tell.
We love tag folksonomies for way they allow us all to organize our world, for the way they allow patterns to emerge from chaos, and for their easy flexibility. But that flexibility, if poorly implemented in our software, can interrupt the very patterns [...]

Posted March 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: Best Practice, doing it right, flickr, folksonomies, folksonomy, tag, tagging, tags. 2 Comments.

Ignore the politics for a moment. MoveOn’s CTO, Patrick Michael Kane, remarked that the organization’s membership to Flickr, the photo sharing site, has paid off: “Flickr has got to be the best $24.95 we’ve ever spent.”
Why?
Micah Sifry explains in a story at AlterNet that MoveOn had been soliciting photos of events from members for some [...]

Posted January 2, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: flickr, leveraging social software, moveon, social applications, social software, social software for politics, tag, tagging, tags. 2 Comments.

[]I’ve fixed another bug in bsuite b2, my multi-purpose plugin. This update is recommended for all bsuite users.
Fixed

Previous versions would throw errors at the bottom of the page when the http referrer info included search words from a recognized search engine. 

Installation
Follow the directions for the bsuite b2 release. The download link there will always fetch [...]

Posted December 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, bug, bug fix, bug fixes, bugs, fix, fixes, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 46 Comments.

[]I’ve fixed a couple bugs in bsuite b2, released last week.
Fixes

A bug with search word highlighting that caused it to litter the display in some cases. 
A silly mistake of mine that cause a mysql error for some users.

Installation
Follow the directions for the bsuite b2 release. The download link there will always fetch the current version.
Upgrades [...]

Posted December 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, bug, bug fix, bug fixes, bugs, fix, fixes, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 11 Comments.

bsuite highlights the search words used to find blog posts in Google and other search engines, and uses those search terms to recommend other related posts at your WordPress site.
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bsuite uses the tags of one post to recommend related posts in your WordPress blog.
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bsuite includes an easy [...]

Posted December 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 11 Comments.

[]The first thing we all have to agree on is that bsuite is the replacement for bstat. The name change reflects that fact that the plugin is doing a lot more than simply track page loads. The most exciting new feature is a module I can’t help but call bsuggestive. It uses the tags of [...]

Posted November 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog pulse, bstat, bstats, bsuggestive, bsuite, graph, plugin, pulse, recommendation system, recommendations, recommender, recommending, referrer, related content, search engine highlighting, search term, search term highlighting, sehl, statistics, stats, stats tracking, tag, tag management, tag relationships, tags, usage, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 114 Comments.

bsuite, the follow-up to bstat, now includes a module called “bsuggestive” that recommends related posts based on the current post’s tags or alternate posts based on your search words when you arrive from a recognized search engine.
That is, bsuggestive does two neat things:
First, visitors will see a section in each post with links to other [...]

Posted November 27, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: bstat, bsuite, content tagging, plugin, related content, tag, tag management, tagging, tags, wordpress, wordpress plugin. 6 Comments.