Browse entries tagged "ranking"

Hall of Fame

Wednesday Aug 13, 2008

Last month we released the PixyBlog Hall-of-fame for both photos and photoblogs. The new rankings have been well received by the community and they are a valuable addition to our Top Photoblogs section. However, the system we used to calculate the rankings was relatively simple and prone to abuse, so today we have just released an updated Hall-of-Fame.

Hall-of-Fame Photoblogs

For the hall-of-fame photoblog rankings, we now take the age of the photoblog into account. This will help newer photoblogs to compete against the more established ones and hopefully give more accurate results.

Hall-of-Fame Photos

The hall-of-fame photos has been re-worked to group photos from the same photographer together and only feature a photographer once. This allows a greater range of photos and photographers to be displayed and also stops one or two photographers from taking-over the entire list. Another benefit of having a greater selection of photos is that there will be more chance for new photos to appear on the list and existing photos to change position.

As with all the rankings on PixyBlog, we will continue to tweak our algorithms to try and give the most accurate results we can. We hope you like the improvements.

Posted at 12:10PM Aug 13, 2008 by Richard Jones | Comments[1]

Top photos, Hall of Fame and the Daily Shot

Thursday Jul 17, 2008

We have just extended the Top Photoblogs section of our website to include three additional ranking pages for both photos and photoblogs. The new sections are as follows:

Today's top photos: The top ten photos from the last 24 hour period.
Hall of Fame: Photoblogs: The all-time top 100 photoblogs on PixyBlog.
Hall of Fame: Photos: The all-time top 10 photos on PixyBlog.

All of these rankings are based on live statistics, so expect positions to change frequently. Along with the Top Photoblogs section, we are trialling a new ranking algorithm on our Daily Shot site which, when ready, will be used for these stats too. We're still making adjustments and trying hard not to make the Daily Shot a duplicate of Kevin Falk OrganicPIX photoblog.