One Blogger Asks: Did Benedict XVI Have A Blog Strategy?
It's a papal kind of day now that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany has been elected pope and has taken the name Benedict XVI. Did BlogPulse know something ahead of time? (Or as the blogger at Personal Democracy Forum asked, "Did Ratzinger have a blog strategy for the election?"
Check out how "buzz" among bloggers over the past month has tracked the various leading candidates to head the Catholic Church. The top graph tracks buzz on Monday; the graph below it tracks buzz on Tuesday, the day of Ratzinger's election as pope:
News of the new pope encompassed 13 of today's top 40 links, boosted Ratzinger as the most talked-about person in the Blogosphere and captured 10 of today's top 16 key phrases.
Reactions to the pope's election ranged from an observation about the frequently mentioned "Nazi youth" connection at Daily Kos to a different perspective on the issue from The Republic of T. blog.
Elsewhere around the globe
Google has launched a UK version of Google Maps, Americans have a new food pyramid that advises eating a balanced diet and exercising (imagine!), and the nation took time this week to mark the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings at the Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: When you receive messages from the outside world, in which format are they delivered to you?
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 20, 2005 09:06 AM
