2004: A Year's Worth of BlogPulse Findings In Review!

BlogPulse's 2004 Year in Review section is now live, clickable and chockful of interesting trends, tidbits, curiosities and pearls about the blogosphere.

Methodology: BlogPulse scoured 2004's blog postings. Top web sites, blogs, blog posts, media sources, media stories, books, movies, and products were found by counting the number of times bloggers linked to them during 2004. Top people, actors, and actresses were found by counting the number of times the names (including common variations thereof) appeared in posts.

The first batch of data, which includes top blogs, web sites, media sources, news stories, personalities and more, is available in the BlogPulse archive and presented graphically as well at the full Year in Review section.

Today's data includes entertainment-related blog finds, including:

Most blogged-about actors/actresses: Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Hilary Duff, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Lindsay Lohan, Jude Law, Mandy Moore and Tom Hanks.

Top audio files cited: Comedian Eric Idle’s "FCC Song;" Bush’s description of "tribal sovereignty;" music by the band Hard ‘n Phirm; a Nickelback mix; and William Shatner’s version of "Common People."

Top video files cited: Bush’s "one-fingered victory salute" during his Texas gubernatorial campaign; the "GOP convention in 60 seconds" montage; JibJab.com’s "This Land Is Your Land" animation; a film clip proposing a 9/11 Pentagon conspiracy; and a TV ad for a Transformer-dancing Citroen car.

Top movies: "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Ying Xiong (Hero)," "The Day After Tomorrow," "Shaun of the Dead," "Garden State," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," "The Incredibles," "Spider-Man 2," and "Team America: World Police."

Top products at Amazon.com: "Star Wars: Trilogy" (DVD), "Garden State" soundtrack (CD), U2’s "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (CD), "Fahrenheit 9/11" (DVD), "Firefly -- The Complete Series" (DVD), and Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator.

Top books at amazon.com/bn.com: Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry; The Da Vinci Code; The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction; My Life; Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.

Cruise around at the Year in Review section. Click on the links. See what bloggers were discussing, creating, sharing and recommending.

Anyone making predictions about the blogosphere in 2005?

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Happy Holidays everyone! Here's hoping you don't put on too many calories (or blog too many words) this season.