8/31/2007 11:57 AM
posted awhile ago
Stats are boring
Here's my complaint. I think the stats page is a big tease. I don't think it tells me anything useful. You've got all this really interesting data that you're collecting, and your not doing much with it. What I would like to see is a page like my last.fm profile. Here I could see at a glance how many films I'd seen by a particular director. I could see which actress I've watched the most movies with. That would tell me things about myself that I'm much more interested in than just the lame Genre pie. I would like to know what this all means. I've made a bunch of lists and contributed a good deal of content, so I could decipher these trends in my own behavior. Show me how many films I've seen that constitute the Dutch New Wave. Let me cluster things based on tags in more meaningful ways. I would like each tag to become a destination where meaningful content is compiled. Think of it as Wikipedia. We all, through our collective behavior, are defining meaningful contexts for films. We are classifying them in a cultural meaningful way. That's the innovation of social networking sites. So then looking at my tag cloud really provides a sort of emotional map of who I am, a mandala-like thing to wonder at. More of that would be nice as well. Give me cool ways to see these things. That's the killer app. The internet is both far more and far less sophisticated than it seems. If looking at my tag cloud is the equivalent of watching a movie of me, but made out of these words, that's really cool. I think you could do a lot more of that. Let my behavior go out in the world as a piece of art. Then I can put that on my page and be proud of what it says about me. Alright those are all the things I can think of right now. Thanks.
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