Up until today, it was possible for both normal co-authors and moderators to see the statistics of a blog.
From this afternoon onwards, it will only be possible for the blog owners and moderators to see the statistics.
This is particularly relevant for the group blogs, since currently all group members can see the stats.
So be sure to check your settings depending on who you would like your statistics to be visible to.
Thanks,
your BCUK team.
Some of you may have noticed a small new feature here on BCUK. You can now recommend and bookmark individual posts.
Just click on 'Recommend this post'.
It will open a window like the one below, allowing you to bookmark it with various bookmarking services.
You can also send the post to directly to other user(s), and also to people who aren't registered on BCUK - just type in the username/email address, separated by commas.
As always, we want to hear what you think and also let us know if you find any errors or want to suggests improvements.
Resent research by the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne has concluded that blogging improves your social life.
After just two months of blogging, the participants in the experiment "felt they had better social support and friendship networks than those who did not blog".
These positive feelings are not isolated to blogging alone - the use of social networking sites also can make you "feel less anxious, depressed and stressed".
This is good news indeed for bloggers everywhere, as it indicates that we are not, in fact, a group of sad nerds gathered around computer screens, but rather real human beings who can reach out to and help others, no matter where we are in the world.
The research also shows that many of those who felt an upturn in their social life had started blogging in an attempt to do so, since they were dissatisfied with their current state. This, however, doesn't mean that this news isn't as positive as we first imagined - after all, they started to try to become happier and it worked - their belief in the potential positive effects of blogging was justified.
So what about you BCUK bloggers - did you start blogging to make yourself feel better? Did it work? Let us know what you think.
Sources: TechCrunch, ABC News.
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