Research

Today I noticed that I haven’t published posts labeled “Jayne” for two weeks. I commented, wrote posts for engr103 class weekly, but haven’t written anything for my composition class in this time. My last post was published on September 10. By this post, I am going to change it to September 25.)

This Friday in class, when we were given time to read, write and comment blogs, a strange idea emerged in my head. I was reading and trying to find blogs that I could comment. “Why don’t I write about some statistics of GELC on blogger.com”. I was thinking of importing all data to Microsoft Excel, where I could count the number of total words , how many blogs has everyone published, by this determine the most active blogger, and etc. . Then I could write a post about the most interesting facts. Seems crazy?

I started from GELC Purple, which consists of five students. On top of seven columns I wrote “Name”, “Title”, “Label”, “Date posted”, “Time posted”, “Word count”, “Comments”. (I’m interested whether our instructors have such file to grade us.) I copied a text, and pasted it to MS Word, where I could see word count. The whole process took me one and a half hour. It’s just a GELC Purple. I had five more colours. Then I gave up on this crazy idea.

Nevertheless, let me share the most interesting information that I got so far. Since August 28 up today, 34 posts have been published by me, Karlyn, Josh, Amon and Dharna, 19 of which labeled “engr103”, 15 labeled “Jayne”. (excluding this post). We have written 8230 words and received 56 comments. The most active blogger of GELC Purple is Dharna, who published 8 posts and wrote 2196 words. Second is Amon with 7 posts and 1977 words, Karlyn and Josh share third and fourth positions. Karlyn has 6 posts and 1634 words, Josh has 7 posts and 1298 words. Not sure whether number of posts or number of words is more important. You can guess who is fifth. But after this post he is going to improve the position in this rating.

PS: I may have made some errors.)