Here come the bloggers…
Technorati, for those of you not familiar with the site, tracks what’s going on in weblogs. You can use it to see who’s linking to a blog or specific blog entry or see what topics are currently popular in the blogosphere.
Some examples:
- As I write this, Technorati reports that over 19,000 sites link to the 800-pound gorilla of the blogsphere, Boing Boing, which ranks in the top 100 of the nearly 25 million sites it tracks. I’m doing nicely, currently ranking at #944, with 757 sites providing nearly 1,700 links to this site. Thanks, folks!
- On the keyword search front, a Technorati search for “Brokeback Mountain” reveals that nearly 38,000 blog posts contain that phrase. It’s been getting mentioned in one to two thousand blogs every day this week.
This blog’s politican of the moment, Sam Bulte, has been getting a fair number of mentions in the past week. The chart on the left, taken from a Technorati search on the word “Bulte”, shows her rise from non-entity to topic du jour over the past few days. The intrepid research of Michael Geist and Boing Boing’s “juice” seem to have catalysed the local blogosphere, making Ms. Bulte’s coziness with the copyright cartel has been a regular topic of discussion over the past couple of days. If you want to see what they’re saying about Sam, click on this link to see the latest blogosphere chatter about her.