24 Hours of Blogs
Matthew Hurst of BlogPulse offers some interesting insight into blog posts over on his Data Mining blog. It comes in 3 parts: here, here, and here.
He derives the data from 24 hours of pings to weblogs.com.
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Politics Online Conference Summary
BuzzWebster has links to a recap of the Politics Online Conference held last week at George Washington University.
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links for 2005-10-01
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