uISV and Conversational Index

I just read this post about measuring the conversational index of your blog. Its really a measure of how effective your uISV blog is at creating the distributed conversation. The calculation on the ToDoOrElse.com site is pretty simple:

[Conversational Index] = [Posts] / ([Comments] + [Trackbacks])

So I decided to open up my blog engine database and take a peak. My conversational comes out at about 0.698 which according to conventional wisdom is pretty good.

0.698 = 932 / (972 + 362)

Having said that – I think the number is artificially inflated. If I remove the intra-site trackbacks and the comments that I have posted myself then it is no where near as good (although still a pass).

0.968 = 932 / (718 + 244)

I guess its not so critical for my blog since I am not really selling anything but for someone whose business depends on it could be a useful measure for when more time needs to be spent communicating with your customers.

TFS RC: Time for configuration managers to start making migration plans.

Jeff Beehler has noted on his blog that they have handed over a cut of Team Foundation Server RC for upload to MSDN. Hopefully the gear should turn up on Tuesday (but hopefully someone does us all a favorite and does it early!).

As we near the release of TFS configuration managers should be starting to make migration plans for their BETA 3 databases. Depending on how desperate you are for the upgrade and whether you want to do a double hop to RC and then to RTM then you may opt to test this build on a VPC and then upgrade to the real thing in March.

Code Camp Oz 2006 - Agenda

The tentative agenda for Code Camp Oz 2006 has been posted – if you are going to be attending Code Camp you should definately go and check it out. Also, to help get you in the mood for Code Camp we have set up the following CafePress site with a little bit of 2006 swag.

We haven’t marked the prices up on this stuff at all so its at CafePress cost price. Since its coming from the US please allow a few weeks for delivery (depending on which shipping method you choose).