Illustrating the Blogosphere: Iraq, Middle East and Joe vs. Ned
Does the ongoing conflict in Israel and Lebanon detract from a national focus on the conflict in Iraq? Did bloggers and Internet buzz truly fuel challenger Ned Lamont to a victory over Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut on Tuesday?
Sometimes, the best way to track "buzz" in the blogosphere is to plot it on a chart, and BlogPulse Trend Graphs do that for those two issues. On the former, buzz about Iraq remains as high on recently emergent but continuing discussion of Israel and Lebanon:
And even though defeated Sen. Lieberman likes to "blame" the blogosphere for rallying behind Lamont and pushing him into the winner's column, a BlogPulse chart shows that Lieberman captured more buzz among bloggers in the month leading up to the Aug. 8 election than did Lamont.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at August 10, 2006 02:12 PM
