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Most blogged

leftcoastbob — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:46:53 -0800

BlogPulse keeps track of the most popular videos on the web, many of which have been featured in the blue recently. Are we trend setters or trend followers?

By: interrobang

interrobang — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:01:50 -0800

Videos that are popular on the web: threat, or menace?

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:17:20 -0800

Videos that are popular on the web: threat, or menace... ...find out on the next Donahue!

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:18:56 -0800

Seeing as Harry Potter is 1 and 2 and not talked about here in the least and that AOL media player is number 3, I'd say that we are neither trend followers or setters.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:19:49 -0800

The Helsinki Complain Chorus is worth an FPP ! More of them, more !

By: interrobang

interrobang — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:20:00 -0800

So, menace, then?

By: leftcoastbob

leftcoastbob — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:36:02 -0800

The Helsinki Complaints Chorus is great! Apparently Helsinki sucks in pretty much the same way Washington sucks. Except, of course, that we don't have quite so many sauna issues.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:39:01 -0800

Yeah but you have more racial issues ! So I guess that it makes it even, horray !

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:48:58 -0800

I'll go with followers for 500.

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:49:51 -0800

Blogpulse seems to scour the major standard blogtypes (such as blogspot), along with anything posted to Livejournal or Myspace. Thus What Tarot Card are You? is the currenly most popular blogged item because it shows up in 5068 (presumably mostly) Livejournal and Myspace pages. I doubt that they follow custom blog-like sites (like Mefi) and a bunch of other very influential sites that existed before there were standard vehicles for blogging. Should they have to react every time Matt changes the sites html?

By: Holy foxy moxie batman!

Holy foxy moxie batman! — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:21:11 -0800

Myspace...the syphilis of our generation....

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:25:20 -0800

We set the trends we follow.

By: logicpunk

logicpunk — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:29:55 -0800

Are we trend setters or trend followers? How about trend spotters? It sounds so much better than "trend follower" without involving any additional work.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:36:12 -0800

Ugh, it's from the Nielsen ratings people. Check the corpspeak on the about page: BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. BlogPulse is brought to you by Nielsen BuzzMetrics. Like I said, ugh. I prefer a more personal "trend discovery system," like VideoSift, started by our very own Dag Maggot, or the "natural language processing techniques" of the folks at Fark. So, menace, then? Threnace, I think we decided last time.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:45:05 -0800

leftcoastbob posted 'Are we trend setters or trend followers?' Neither. There's a wee clue in the name of the site. And BlogPulse appears to be completely useless: repeated entries, bare YouTube URLs and generic 'AOL Media Player' titles that give no clue as to the content... why would anyone use it?

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:55:23 -0800

What Tarot Card are You? Ok, I admit that's me. Must be something to this tarot B.S., after all. (Breaks out some rolling stones.)

By: taosbat

taosbat — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:14:13 -0800

I think we're something like trenders, neither trend setters [n]or trend followers, yet, trending.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:34:32 -0800

W00t - I am the Magician! Rock on with my badass self! (breaks out some led zepp) (or would if I wasn't at work) (breaks out some digestive biscuits instead)(digestive biscuits...of SORCEROUS INTENT)

By: winston

winston — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:59:32 -0800

Are we trend setters or trend followers? Yes.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:01:28 -0800

Are we trend setters or trend followers? I dunno... what does everyone else think?

By: winston

winston — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:37:57 -0800

Metafilter is one of the sites indexed by BlogPulse, and pretty highly ranked. It might well be that the mere fact that the video is linked on MetaFilter (regardless of anything else) is what causes the video to be highly ranked on BlogPulse.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:45:28 -0800

The worst thing about disappearing up your own butt is the mocking laughter of the children.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:53:38 -0800

I do miss blogdex though

By: toma

toma — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:22:10 -0800

What tarot card: whaddya know. All you Aztecs, Egyptians, give me stuff. Going to sleep now (but then you knew that).

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:37:16 -0800

Are we trend setters or trend followers? Trend fetters? Trend swallowers?

By: jouke

jouke — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:09:50 -0800

Hm, re the helsinki complain chorus; it seems that the Finnish language employs just too many syllables to make a point and have a catchy metre.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:45:59 -0800

Jouke: yeah, that part's in the bridge but they didn't bother subtitling it.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:01:07 -0800

I like the Weekly Internet TV Charts

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:02:25 -0800

Also, what's "the blue"? I hope it's not something I'm supposed to be keeping tabs on.