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Pew Internet: Who are the bloggers?

By alex | Published: 7/19/2006
Pew has released a new survey of bloggers. The idea is to get a feel for who blogs. I worry a bit about the whole idea of a “central tendency” among bloggers, since I suspect that there are several central tendencies. I am reminded a bit of the Perseus claim a few years back that […]
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Unquoted

By alex | Published: 6/26/2006
The Chronicle has a story based on the talks at Hyperlinked Society. It ends with: “In the physical world, it’s a matter of taking the three-dimensional world and making it two-dimensional,” said Mr. Dodge. But on the Internet, he said, there are more dimensions to consider. With all deference to Dodge, who is a genius, […]
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We Feel Fine

By alex | Published: 5/30/2006
Ouch and bravo. Some of you know I’ve been crawling and working toward an emotional mapping system for blogs. Someone beat me to it! Check out We Feel Fine. It scrapes text that starts “I feel” and counts up the feelings that follow. Good stuff. Not enough to kill my work: I have a few […]
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BestBlogForward?

By alex | Published: 5/28/2006
Kevin is trying to get people to post about their most popular blog entries and tag it through Technorati with bestblogforward. He suggests three methods for determining your most popular entries: by comments, by hits, or by Google. Thing is, these lead to different posts. It’s an interesting question in itself: how do you decide […]
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