links for 2005-10-13

Stephen Baker over at Business Week’s Blogspotting reports: Look for Yahoo! to unveil a response to Google’s blog search early next week. This from Bradley Horowitz, director of tech development in the company’s search group. He wouldn’t provide details in advance. It will be interesting to see how the two products compare — will Yahoo…

Well-known PR measurement expert Katie Paine is blogging about the International Public Relations Research Conference going on in Miami.  She has an intriguing observation which hopefully she’ll elaborate on when she’s not running between sessions: Howard Dean and the DNC would be adviced to carefully study Len Barshak’s ongoing Q-Sort study of attititudes about the…

Steve Rubel offers an interesting chart from Technorati, the blog search engine, that seems to show that most spikes in blog posting volume occur around political events. David Sifry also comments that "We see the largest number of posts each day between the hours of 7AM and noon Pacific time, meaning between 10AM and 3PM…

Steve Rubel: "Reuters has launched a new program that converts the text of its news reports into podcasts." Good to see Reuters innovating on news presentation.  But if you read the comments on Steve’s post, you’ll see that the implementation leaves something to be desired.

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.

Beltway Blogroll offers a good look at the current state of online advocacy ads.