I am mostly loving the "blogcode matches for this weblog" tool. Good work there.

I also like the fact that the blog deemed most like mine is Belle de Jour.

OK, I'll confess...

Heh. That caught my eye, too... but you two do have a lot in common in that you post light-hearted anecdotes about your lives and generally avoid discussing the minutiae of politics. That, and the rimming, of course.

Scaryduck; it could be worse, my best match is Harry's Place.

My evil twin Tim?

I must admit that I like the interface and the idea (one extra question... variability i.e. How much does the topic of this blog vary from post to post... Lots... Not Much)

I was unable to find the code which will allow me to put a 'similar blogs' thing into my site. I presume this comes once some sort of validation has been done on the account?

The ideal thing to develop here would be a firefox plugin (or explorer bookmarklet) which one could easily click when reading a new blog. There would be an option for it to pop up automagically (without changing focus) when you read a blog you have not yet coded. This would be off by default.

Also, I found that when I blogcoded a new site (okay, my own...) it did not appear in the search. I understand that this may be intentional (validation of data, waiting for minimum number of codes etc) - however there should ideally be a sentence giving some idea of the timing for this, otherwise the impression given to joe punter may be 'broken'.

One last thing.... can it cope with URLs of the form

http://foo.bar
http://foo.bar/
http://foo.bar/page.html

or will these be seen as different sites?

Murky, I have no doubt that the magical mechanics will read your comments with interest.

On variation, this will come up with existing metrics. If the answers on content suggest a little bit (or a lot) of everything, then.... well, I don't need to finish this sentence, do I?

The similar blogs thing is here:
http://www.blogcode.com/blogtool_home.php

Oh... sorry... one more thing (doh!)

Is there a 'Blogcode me' button... i.e. a one click thing that will go to blogcode.com with the title and URL of the site correctly filled out (going via account creation if need be).

(Sorry for so many comments, but this looks like a really nice thing, and I figure that soon after launch feedback is a good thing)

Eventually found the place to grab the code for my site (via the homepage).

Ideally this would be clickable from the page for that blog (maybe after claiming a blog as ones own using a scheme similar to technorati?)

Regards,

Manic: Suppose so... *shrug* just a thought. Anyways, thinking a little bit more it wouldn't really be a useful metric for the purpose of the site.

Thanks for the link (found it independently). It'd be nice to be able to tweak the colours, no of links etc - but it's early days and it is working nicely. Thanks to all concerned.

Cheers, Murky. There was going to be a 'blogcode me' widget on the blog-matching tool, but it didn't make the first generation.

We may integrate it, or simply produce it as a separate widget. I think the coding pages would need some explanatory copy first, though.

'Ideally this would be clickable from the page for that blog (maybe after claiming a blog as ones own using a scheme similar to technorati?'

Incidently, the reason that the link from the page for the blog did not work was because the website had not yet appeared in the search for some time - and the search was essential to get the code.

I shall try to stop commenting now. Honest.

I wanted to stop... I really did.. but there is one more question. Why is it that the 'match score' for two sites can be different depending upon whose list you look at? Surely if A matches B to 78.4%, be should also match A to 78.4%....?

(Of course, with a more detailed analysis than seems possible with the metrics given a discrepancy like the above could be possible with one site matching part of another)

It's something to do with your individual location in the 3-dimensional space. It was explained to me once, but now it appears it should have been explained to me twice.

(Grin)

By the way, have made a (very quick) icon for you - use it as you will (please don't link to the original!)

Ah, the html got stripped.... here it is:
http://www.murky.org/graphics/codemenow.png

Ta, Murky.

By the way, the blogcode box for site does not validate.

One simple thing is that there are one too many < /a > tags in the code. This was the full report:
line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing declaration
line 14 column 60 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&js"
line 14 column 1 - Error: is not recognized!
line 14 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected
line 13 column 98 - Warning: isn't allowed in elements
line 18 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected
line 13 column 98 - Warning: isn't allowed in elements
line 13 column 98 - Warning: isn't allowed in elements
line 51 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected
line 54 column 190 - Warning: missing
line 57 column 171 - Warning: discarding unexpected
line 2 column 1 - Warning: inserting missing 'title' element
line 6 column 1 - Warning: inserting "type" attribute
line 13 column 1 - Warning: inserting "type" attribute
line 56 column 29 - Warning: lacks "alt" attribute
line 60 column 19 - Warning: lacks "alt" attribute
line 13 column 98 - Warning: trimming empty
line 55 column 19 - Warning: trimming empty