BlogPulse's 10-Million Blog Milestone: Part II
Yesterday, BlogPulse announced it had identified more than 10 million blogs in the blogosphere, and today, a few more "Top 10" lists to mark the occasion.
Top news sources cited by bloggers
Bloggers tend to cite a fairly predictable stable of news sources in their posts, although a few changes have occured since the end of 2004. According to data from March 1-April 18, the San Francisco Chronicle and News.com have moved into the Top 10 list, which includes:
• Yahoo! News (40,145 citations)
• New York Times (37,825 citations)
• CNN (27,099 citations)
• Washington Post (22,729 citations)
• MSNBC (20,116 citations)
• BBC (10,993 citations)
• The Guardian (UK) (9,788 citations)
• San Francisco Chronicle (9,706 citations)
• News.com (9,129 citations)
• Los Angeles Times (8,579 citations)
The Chronicle was propelled, no doubt, by Jon Carrol's recent "Unitarian Jihad" column (see next list), the most-cited news story during the time frame.
Most-linked news stories
And which news stories received the most links during the six weeks beginning March 1?
• Jon Carroll's "Unitarian Jihad" (San Franciso Chronicle)
• New Scientist's "13 things that do not make sense"
• The New York Times' "The Message Machine: How the Government Makes News; Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged News"
• The Alligator's"Capitol bill aims to control 'leftist' profs"
• MSNBC's "Terri Schiavo dies, but battle continues"
• The Independent's "Decoded at last: the 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the history of the world"
• CNN's "Has Cookie Monster given up sweets?"
• New York Times'"List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm"
• CNN's "Pet store owner: Satan's image on turtle's shell" (link no longer active)
• Washington Post's "And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty"
Foreign-language blogs?
For those who've been asking, about 12% of the 10 million blogs identified by BlogPulse are foreign-language blogs.
Intelliseek also issued a press release today that summarizes some of these 2005 findings.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: As President Bush continues into his second term, emphasis seems to be moving away from Social Security reform and toward the Supreme Court and other issues.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at April 26, 2005 08:40 AM
