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…
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.
PodBlaze offers a white paper on the business impact of podcasting. It was airplane reading for me recently and it does have a number of interesting nuggets, as well as some data on forecasted growth. At times it is a little awkward to read and it veers between a business and a technical perspective —…
Fred Wilson offers some interesting data from Comscore about which blog hosts have the most visitors and which are most sticky.
PaidContent.org reports: C-SPAN is launching its podcasts with three popular shows: After Words, Q & A and segments from American Perspectives.
MediaPost reports: BUZZ-TRACKING FIRM UMBRIA WILL UPGRADE its Buzz Report, which tracks conversations about brands on blogs and message boards, by offering users more refined demographic information and an enhanced method for dealing with blog spam. Buzz Report, which monitors about 11 million blogs and 100,000 public message boards, already analyzes posts to determine writers’…
MediaPost observes a growing trend for campaigns on the web: Democratic political consultant Michael Bassik adds that many political campaigns are purchasing variations of their candidates’ names. "It’s common for campaigns to not only purchase up every permutation of their own campaign’s name, but also negative URLs as well," said Democratic political consultant Michael Bassik….
The Washington Post has started a blog dedicated to the campaign to confirm Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.
Beltway Blogroll offers a good look at the current state of online advocacy ads.
I tried. I really, really wanted to go back to Microsoft Internet Explorer. Overall, I prefer that browser to Firefox, mostly because the extensions they have and that many web sites take advantage of. But I couldn’t do it. The MSN search toolbar had me feeling good for a while because it enables tabbed browsing. …