Holy Bat Girl! The International Flavor of Blogging
We've pointed it out in the past, but blogging is definitely taking on an international flavor, and it's becoming more and more obvious in daily results. Today's top blog posts, for example, include entries in Catalan (No. 2-3) and Russian (No.s 21-23) . Today's top links also include entries in Russian (No. 2, 12, 16 and 21). And today's leading news story is in Japanese, while the third most-cited news story emanates in English from The Baltic Times. It's a small world, indeed.
Bat Girl on the drawing boards
Holy art-gum eraser, Batman! One LiveJournaler's attempt to inspire drawings of Bat Girl is today's most popular blog post (and most-cited link), and it contains plenty of links to artistic renderings of Batman's estrogenic counterpart.
The Dateline feed
Check out Josh Mankiewicz' "Mank Blog" at NBC's Dateline home page, and watch Sunday night's segment. BlogPulse is a weekly data contributor to Dateline's Sunday night's blog analysis (see Josh? You're an "analyst" in our book, too!).
Define "disruptive"?
Today's No. 37 top blog post contains a link to DailyKos' insight on this tidbit of ifnormation: the upgraded Patriot Act that President George Bush is promoting allows the Secret Service to arrest people for "disrupting" things like political conventions and Olympic events.
Super Bowl Buildup
Now that the NFL has been narrowed to four Super Bowl contenders, which teams are creating the most buzz? A BlogPulse trend graph shows the way:
Posted by Sue MacDonald at January 16, 2006 10:36 AM
