I'd like to feature using search to make your own list of a previous days diaries. This method won't have the usual statistics accompanying it, and in particular won't show the "high comment low recommend" diaries very well because there is no impact filter, but it does have the advantage that it will be up to the minute (well - up to the 5 minutes) whenever called.
See the full diary for details.
Yesterday, April 25, 2006
Search: sid="2006/4/25"
Find: Diairies Sort By: Impact
Results: 10 From: 2 days To: Now
High Impact Diaries
One Year Ago: April 25, 2005
Search: sid="2005/4/25"
Find: Diairies Sort By: Impact
Results: 10 From: 2 years To: 1 year
High Impact Diaries
These searches use queries restricted to a special part of each document, the story id, or "sid". Every story and diary at daily kos has an sid, and part of each sid encodes the date it was submitted as Y/M/D. So by specifying "2006/4/25" you ask for all the documents from April 25, 2006. The query can be adjusted to your date of interest, as long as the date range is adjusted accordingly.
A couple of other things to keep in mind.
- The double parentheses around the sid in the query are important. Without them, the query won't work as described.
- If these searches are run later than the date of posting of this diary, the time ranges may have to be adjusted to make it work correctly.
I would have posted these methods earlier (a few people have posted about them earlier), but there were still a few things about the search that needed to be improved. That's done. There was an improved indexing method deployed yesterday. I hope no one noticed. As usual, please bring any errors or problems to my attention.
This diary brought to you courtesy of the "Teach A Kosmopolitan to Fish" Council.
Update [2006-4-26 14:43:33 by jotter]: I'm adding a slightly disjointed set of daily stats; these are based on a PDT day, and so don't match exactly what you'd get from an on site search, which uses EDT. But perhaps it will be enough for stats junkies!
Yesterday 295 Kosmopolitan authors posted 302 diaries, of which 5 were later withdrawn, 284 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1966 recommending readers, 110 diaries were recommended by 10 or more readers, 25 by 30 or more.
DailyKos diaries = 302; 302 per day; 12.6 per hour
Active Kosmopolitans: 2145
writers: 295 readers: 1966 writer-reader pairs: 5068
Network Density: 0.8%
Diaries: posted 302, withdrawn: 5, remaining: 297, recommended {1: 284, 10: 110, 30: 25}.