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We know our Favourite Producers write, but do we know our Favourite Producers, right?

We know our Favourite Producers write, but do we know our Favourite Producers, right?

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Before I started this amazingly complex analysis (..... NOT!) I assumed, much like you would be forgiven for assuming, that  I was really familiar with the majority (if not all) of the buzzes published by my favourite bees on Producer. After all, I spend many, many, many hours on beBee, partaking of the following pursuits, in descending numbers of hours:

  • reading the buzzes of others;
  • commenting on the buzzes of others; 
  • commenting on the comments of others;
  • writing my own buzzes; and
  • responding to comments by others on my buzzes.
Well, before I go any further, let me just remind you of the following old adage: 

To ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME!
I have an estimated 20 or so favourite producers here on beBee, of which I can safely say there are about six, the long form buzzes of whom I am guaranteed to read, whenever I see them dangling invitingly on my 'wall'.  This is generally with little regard to the enticing lead photo/picture, or the introductory sentence or two, both invariably set-up as 'hooks' to draw in readers. Whatever these guys (and gals) publish I read, because:
  • I know I will enjoy what they have to say; 
  • I will learn something during the process (about the world around me and/or myself); and 
  • I will be stimulated to respond with an appropriate comment (and which, in my case, will often end with a limp 'dad joke').
Let's call these select small band of your higher order favourites, Fbees.

And so, scene set, players in the wings ..... Action! 
(and by action I mean of course, analysis)

1.  Line up say six of your favourite producers (the Fbees), hopefully producers who have been around for a while. In my case all, like myself, have been producing since the long form of buzz came to 'bee' on beBee, way back in April of this year.

2.  Go to each one of your Fbee's pages in Producer in turn (this can easily be accomplished by looking up the name of each Fbee, going to his/her home page, then looking for their producer link beneath their mug shot (sorry, ladies, I mean provocatively attractive photographic image).

3.  Now, for each Fbee, add up the total number of buzzes listed on their producer page and either type it in an electronic memo, Excel spreadsheet (for the mathematical formulae challenged), or your data recording app or software of choice; or, of course, you can just write it down on a piece of paper.

4.  Next, go through the list of your Fbees' buzzes again (having doubtless been surprised at the large number of buzzes with which you are unfamiliar) and truthfully add up only those that you have previously read and have retained some degree of familiarity.  You may need to keep your mind fixed firmly on the task in hand, at this stage, and resist the temptation to deviate from this arithmetical assignment by opening up and reading some of the buzzes you have missed.

5.  Now here comes the difficult part for those of you who are mathematically challenged. For each of your Fbees, take the number derived in Item 4 above, divide it by the number derived in 3 above, and multiply the answer by 100.  This will give you, for each bee, the percentage of their buzzes that you have read.

The results of my own analysis are produced in the table below, in order to better illustrate my conclusion, since I know that many of you will have drifted off by now, into a cloud of oblivion, brought on by an aversion to manipulating numbers.

Table 1: Your level of familiarity with your Fbees Fbee "No of Buzzes | Total Number of Proportion of Read by You Buzzes on Total Buzzes Producer which you have | | | read No 1 19 99 | 19% No 2 25 95 | 26% No 3 10 47 21% No 4 15 60 25% No 5 13 45 29% No 6 22 78 28% Range of Familiarities: 19% to 28% Average Familiarity: 25%So here we have it!  The bottom line is that, for someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on beBee, I only read an average of 25% (or a quarter, to the numerically numb) of the hard work (flesh, blood and tears) produced by my Fbees (i.e. my super duper favourite bees).

This, of course, is not entirely by choice, but is due to the fact that I don't spend every waking hour on beBee and, while I am off-line, partaking of the fruits of our real-life world, new buzzes keep appearing and rolling down the wall, and our numbers keep increasing (this latter is a good thing).  In addition, keeping an eye on select hives doesn't necessarily guarantee that you will see the product of any of your individual Fbee's hard work, as many of us producers choose to deposit our buzzes across a variety of hives, depending upon the subject of the day and therefore the hive of appropriate affinity.


Why not give this simple exercise a go and work out your own 'average familiarity percentage' for your own chosen Fbees?


If you want to read more on the problems of keeping up with an increasingly busy wall, then have a look at my metaphorical post on the 'cabs' and 'Porches' running down 'Wall Street' at the following link:


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The author of the above, Ken Boddie, besides being a sometime poet and occasional writer, is an enthusiastic photographer, rarely leisure-travelling without his Canon, and loves to interact with other like-minded people with diverse interests.

Ken's three day work week (part time commitment) as a consulting engineer allows him to follow his photography interests, and to plan trips to an ever increasing list of countries and places of scenic beauty and cultural diversity.






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Comments

Javier Cámara-Rica 🐝🇪🇸

6 years ago #37

#52
Ken Boddie great changes coming soon. Thanks for your suggestion. It is already planned a solution for this and it will be included in the next coming platform :)

Ken Boddie

6 years ago #36

#51
I am tagging the upper echelon, Vincent Andrew?

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #35

#49
My Fbee from T&T, A girl I love to please, Your words can slay, But come what may, You are the bees' knees. 🐝

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #34

#45
With or without the analysis, DLE, you are probably aware that we are all missing some proportion of the buzzes produced by our Fbees. Can't wait for the long promised STING to kick in (see Javier's #17 below).

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #33

#44
Up to you, Mohd, whether or not you go through the analysis. The main thrust of this post is to point out that most of us are missing a high proportion of buzzes from our Fbees. Hopefully, the long awaited STING (see Javier's #17 below) will cure this problem.

Mohammed Abdul Jawad

7 years ago #32

Ken Boddie Great analysis, calculations and precepts. But, to be active bees humming all the way let's not fall into depths for any sort of analysis paralysis. :)

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #31

#38
Happy comments, Franci, mean happy campers! As for the "more hours in the day ....", well that just ain't going to happen, but the pending 'sting' (see Javier's comment #17) may be a major improvement in assisting you to manage your reading time on beBee more efficiently.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #30

#37
Ha Ha, Michelle! But I have to exercise and eat. And there are some who would say that I may not necessarily be fully awake when buzzing or commenting. 😴

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #29

#36
Fond memories, Mamen. Happy emojis to you! 😍 😁😃☺️..... and from the southern hemisphere 🙃❗️

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #28

#35
So true, Pascal. Real life must take precedence over SM, but it sounds like the promised 'sting' will make it so much easier to catch up on those missed buzzes from your Fbees and also allow bees to catch up on your missed buzzes (see Javier's comment #17 below). This is a win win situation

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #27

#34
I know how you feel. Lada, as I also tend to get annoyed when I have missed buzzes by my favourites, particularly when a cursory search down the wall or in selected hives does not bring them up. I am really looking forward to the advent of the promised 'sting' as in Javier's comment #17 below.

Mamen 🐝 Delgado

7 years ago #26

All I know Ken Boddie is that you are one of my FBees!!! From the beginning... (and I don't forget if I know how to use emojis in my laptop is thanks to you!!) 😉

Pascal Derrien

7 years ago #25

I don't always see posts , the author subscription is not optimal as the mails/notifications end up in my junk box, I tend to check producer timeline but would not proactively check the hives not a reflex I have acquire just yet :-) I also have a busy life , this week was 5 days away with kids and no laptops (an no bebee) so I am ok with it is what it is approach :-)

Lada 🏡 Prkic

7 years ago #24

Ken, I have to admit that I feel kinda embarrassed.😳 I read only 50% of your buzzes and missed so many of them because I am spending less time on social networks lately. I'll try to make it up.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #23

#31
Glad this one grabbed your eye, Praveen, as the scoop on the sting is really good news.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #22

#27
An acronym by any other name, Claire, would smell as sweet.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #21

#26
Careful, Claire .... you may become addicted! 😃

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #20

#23
I'll ASSUME, Maria, that what you said is a compliment?!? Thanks for the popcorn.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #19

#21
And a double whoop dee doooo to you too, Pam!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #18

#17
Whoop dee dooooooo, Javier! 🍾

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #17

And how about you, Donna-Luisa Eversley?

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #16

So have you worked out the 'familiarity percentage' for your favourite bees (Fbees), my friends? Do you leave things to chance and miss our many a Porsche rolling down Wall Street, do you only look at specific hives, or do you stalk your favourites in their Producer link? Pascal Derrien

Javier Cámara-Rica 🐝🇪🇸

7 years ago #15

Very nice buzz Ken Boddie

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #14

#12
I agree with your reticence to lean on statistics, Jim, however, I do not see my above suggestion as a statistical approach by any means, and it is arguable whether a base on only 6 is statistically valid. The intention of this post is purely to alert bees, particularly those operating in different time zones across our expanding 'beedom', that they are probably missing out on many buzzes from their Fbees and that the only current reliable mechanism for filling in the blanks is to access their producer link, as in para 2 in my buzz above. See also my reply to Don Kerr below.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #13

#10
It's entertaining, Aurorasa, how inventive you and others have become with bee labelling. Thanks for jumping aboard, but please leave the sweaty towels in the laundry.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #12

#8
I expect you may be correct, Don, in anticipating a relatively low strike rate (my average familiarity above) on most of your Fbees. That is unless you are all on line at the same times, or you are on line constantly. The intent of this post is to alert people to the probability that they are missing out on many posts from their Fbees. The only way we seem to be able to avoid missing out appears to be to look at our Fbees' producer home pages, as explained in 2 above, and I fear that many bees may not be familiar with how to do this, particularly if they are not producers themselves.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #11

#7
Thanks for your continues support, James. Your comments are all the more valuable for their infrequency.

Jim Murray

7 years ago #10

#5
'm not a big believer in stats. The world changes too quickly for even the population of humans to be accurate for more that a second.

Jim Murray

7 years ago #9

#5
I'm not a big believer in stats. The world changes to quickly for even the population of humans to be accurate for more that a second.

Kevin Pashuk

7 years ago #8

You need to add a new category of bee Ken... the FABee... as in Friggin' Awesome Bee... (I know a few). There's also the WTFBee (no explanation required), the WBTYBee (Wise Beyond Their Years), and of course the OFWAGSHBee, of which you and I are charter members... That stands for Old Fart With A Great Sense of Humour...

don kerr

7 years ago #7

Ken Boddie's stuff can take the better part of a day - a day well spent I might add!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #6

#4
Any higher, Dean-san, and I'd have to report you for stalking. 😃

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #5

#2
Can't see, Jim, how this approach can get beyond the 'home grown', as each bee's selection of Fbees is purely subjective. It would be interesting to know if anyone out there is able to get consistently higher familiarity percentages, across a range of Fbees, perhaps by only associating with limited subject matter and participating only in specific hives. For the general practitioner, it's still hard finding your favourite Porsche in Wall Street until the boffins come good with the sting, or something similar, to allow us to be alerted when nominated individuals publish.

Dean Owen

7 years ago #4

Well I am astounded. Thought I was a totally devoted follower of the great thistle loving, kilt wearing, wallaby malteser picking, bagpiping jock from down under, but as it turns out, you scored an 86.36%. Healthy, but needs to be rectified over the weekend....

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #3

#1
I guess I'm saying, Kev, that your initial initiative (disguised as a challenge) to encourage bees to look through the producer pages of their Fbees was brilliant. I've merely run through the numbers. Interesting how the results are relatively consistent for my Fbees. I wonder if I'll get any feedback from others?

Jim Murray

7 years ago #2

As homegrown analysis I suppose this makes a lot of sense. But it certainly doesn't explain studs like Phil Friedman who acrtually, as far as I can tell holds the record for views and engagement. But on the other hand I agree with you in that I have people I read automatically, but I have yet to put a number on those people. The variable is that I am always looking for stuff to post in The Beezers Hive which I own.

Kevin Pashuk

7 years ago #1

Are you saying that I only have to write 25% good material since the rest is being ignored? Or are you saying that there's a wealth of gold to be discovered? Great reminder Ken not to treat beBee like a Twitter stream... when things scoll down to the bottom of the screen they are gone forever. BTW... you are one of my FBees, even if you insist on using inferior camera gear. I get a lot of good dad joke material from you.

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