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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Rank Most Informative Blogs
A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon has found the 100 most informative blogs. The researchers developed a methodology to determine which blogs would be the most informative if you could only read 100 blogs. The higher math behind the study is similar to mathematics that would be needed to detect the early outbreak of a disease.
We have a social network of interactions between people, and we want to select a small set of people to monitor, so that any disease outbreak can be detected early, when very few people are infected.
In this case the math was used to find blogs that were the most informative and the most efficient timewise. Political blogs and blog aggregators ranked highly in the study.
For example, instapundit.com is the best blog when optimizing PA, but it has 4,593 posts. Interestingly, most of the blogs among the top 10 are politics blogs: instapundit.com, michellemalkin. com, blogometer.nationaljournal.com, and sciencepolitics.blogspot.com. Some popular aggregators of interesting things and trends on the blogosphere are also selected: boingboing. net, themodulator.org and bloggersblog.com. The top 10 PA blogs had more than 21,000 thousand posts in 2006. They account for 0.2% of all posts, 3.5% of all in-links, 1.7% of outlinks inside the dataset, and 0.37% of all out-links.
The study also found that the best day to read blogs is Friday.
Returning to the original question, we performed the following experiment: given a budget of 1000 posts, what is the best day of the week to read posts (optimizing PA)? We found that Friday is the best day to read blogs. The value of PA for Friday is 0.20, while it is 0.13 for the rest of the week. We consider this surprising, since the activity of the blogosphere (number of posts and links created) drops towards the end of the week, and especially over
the weekend.
A list of the blogs with the blogs names can be found here. If you read these blogs on Friday you should be very informed about what is going on in the blogosphere. You can read more about the study here . The PDF files for the report can be found here and here.
Posted on October 25, 2007
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Popularity of Colbert Video Shows the Power of Blogs
Not many people usually watch the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. Most people have probably never even heard of it. But that all changed earlier this month when comedian Stephen Colbert's speech from the WHCA Dinner was placed on YouTube where everyone could watch it. The speech, which poked fun at not only the Bush administration but the media as well, was seen over 500,000 times on YouTube alone before C-SPAN, the copyright owner, asked YouTube to remove it. C-SPAN then placed the video on Google Videos. It can be seen a few other places as well. Red Herring says the Colbert video topped Google Videos as well and has been one of the most popular videos in the short history of Google Videos. Our BloggersBlog.com site has been tracking the popularity of Colbert's speech in the blogosphere.
Thanks to video sharing tools people can now watch hilarious or important sketches or dialogue they may have missed from talks shows or news broadcasts. When one of these video clips is interesting or funny enough -- and thousands and thousands of bloggers are writing about it and linking to it -- they sometimes start to viral out through the blogosphere. This is what happened with the video of Colbert's performance at the WHCA. ISPs are concerned that bandwidth problems could arise if video sharing continues to grow in popularity.
Posted on May 15, 2006
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The Bloggiest Newspapers
Pressthink has a feature on the best blogging newspapers in the U.S. The study focused only on major dailies so great blogging papers like the Spokesman Review were not included. The study found that The Houston Chronicle clearly had the best blogging section.
The Chronicle was a runaway choice for top blogging newspaper. "The wizards of blogging in my opinion," Andre Henry says. Points-wise, it wasn't close. (128 to 69 for the second site.) The Chronicle is not the most adventurous in what it blogs about (exception: Bar Tab) but the site does everything well, starting with its Blogs main page, which features—before you get to any staff blogging-a section called Chron.commons, "Blogs from our Readers." (They weren't the only ones to do this.)
"This had pretty much everything I was looking for," wrote Jessing-Butz. "It's very evident that people read these; they comment on them. The page is easy to find and easy on the eyes. The writing is fun and clear." Krase: "The Chronicle makes access to archived blogs easy."
Here are the top six blogging newspapers according to the review.
- Houston Chronicle (128 points)
- Washington Post (69 points)
- USA Today (38 points, 1 honorable mention)
- St. Petersburg Times (29 points, 2 honorable mention)
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution (23 points)
- San Antonio Express-News (22 points, 1 honorable mention)
NYU's Pressthink also provided a chart containing the number of blogs at America's 100 largest newspapers. You can also find blogging newspapers in BloggersBlog's Blog Network Links List.
Posted on March 21, 2006
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Technorati's New Favorites Feature
Technorati has launched a favorites feature which helps you keep track of up to fifty of your favorite blogs. You can add this blog to your
favorites list by clicking here. More about Technorati's favorites feature can be found here on BloggersBlog.com.
Posted on March 2, 2006
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Washington Post Partners With Technorati
washingtonpost.com has partnered with blog search company Technorati to offer its readers the opportunity to view comments and opinions about washingtonpost.com articles and editorials from around the blogosphere.
The service will search millions of blogs for postings and feature links to the most blogged about articles and the most popular web discussions on washingtonpost.com content.
Posted on October 6, 2005
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