I mentioned in this post that changes were going to start appearing on this blog. The first change was the addition of guest comment editing.

Tonight I'm rolling out another change - a moving time window on the Popular Posts extension SnapOn. If you've been hanging around here any time at all, you've probably noticed that the ten posts appearing in the Popular Posts section of the navbar, um, never changed. Whether it's just that the Thinklings have lost our commenting mojo, or the fact that, with 4,000 plus posts, the competition for getting in the top-ten is pretty intense, or a combination of the two, I dunno.

I originally discussed with the other Thinklings the idea of creating more of a "rate this post" feature, so that the word "Popular" in the Popular Posts section might mean more than "garnered the most comments even though the post is lame". And this is something I still might do. But Thundergeek suggested that perhaps just putting a moving time window on the Popular posts might be a cool thing to try (and it's certainly easier). This will keep the popular posts a lot less anachronistic and a lot more fluid and might help keep some excellent conversations going beyond their normal 3 day half-life.

The Popular Posts extension now allows the blog administrator(s) to set a time window (if desired) for which comments are counted. I've set it to 90 days, so the ten posts you see in the sidebar are posts that have received the most comments in the last 90 days.

And, um, I see Blog Free Association is still at the top . . .

(For any Bloo-bloggers out there, this enhancement (and a bunch of others) will be rolled out with the full 1.00 production version, coming soon)

Oh, also - the Gatorade post is not lost! It now holds an honored space in the Artifacts section of our navbar.

Now, ask yourself . . . What Color is That Liquid?