Of Mayors and Movie Stars
It took the weekend election of incumbent New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (today's burstiest blog personality) and the opening of "The Da Vinci Code" movie (today's sixth most-blogged phrase) to push President George Bush into fourth place today among the blogosphere's most blogged-about people. "Da Vinci" star Tom Hanks and author Dan Brown share the No. 1-3 spots with staying-power Harry Potter. And what do fans think of the movie? "Better than I thought it would be" (but not as good as "Over the Hedge"), writes a LiveJournaler, while an M&M blogger liked the movie better than Hanks' mullet.
Buzz about the movie continued to build over the weekend to nearly 1.3% of all blog buzz, and is only now beginnng to drop off.
Visual blogging
How popular is a 24-hour Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City? Popular enough that its grand opening this weekend, captured on the Apple web site, makes up today's eighth most-cited link with timed video of the loooooooong line. Really? A Louvre in Manhattan? Another time-lapsed video of late in the blogosphere is this animated map of FedEx planes arriving in Memphis in anticipation of a storm. (Click the "play" arrow; glad I wasn't a package in one of those).
Posted by Sue MacDonald at May 22, 2006 03:13 PM
