Re the "imagined audience" of bloggers, "reader response" research in literature, etc. has dealt with this since pre-internet times. Worth checking. (Sorry, I don't have any references. scholar.Google and ye shall find.) However, given that most blogs make audience feedback easy, there may well be some differences with blogs. My hunch is that blog-audience response is the usual reverse J-curve: a few people respond a lot. Hence bloggers may be mistaken as to who their audiences are if they only pay attention to their relatively few feedbackers. Never did any research on this. Just my .02. YMMV. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________
Hi. I am wondering whether there is any ranking systems or list systems that represent the hot issues, or most freqeuntly discussed among bloggers for certain time periods. Jenghoon Lee _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
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I'm not sure if Technorati or Blogdex offer the ability to look at "certain time periods," but Blogpulse does have a Trend Tool that lets you look at the relative amount of chatter on a topic of your choosing over the latest 6-month period. http://www.blogpulse.com/trend -Michael Zimmer Paul Jones wrote:
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