Buzz measurement with Blogs

2006-02-22 Thread Steve George
Hi, A long time back Sri asked about using blogs to measure buzz: bearing mind that blogs are a small microcosm. I do this a fair amount and find the icerocket trends graphic really useful. Here's one to measure GNOME, KDE and linux desktop over 3 months:

Re: Buzz measurement with Blogs

2006-02-22 Thread Luis Villa
I've enjoyed blogpulse: http://www.blogpulse.com/trend?query1=kde+desktoplabel1=kdequery2=gnome+desktoplabel2=gnomequery3=label3=days=90 I use 'gnome desktop' and 'kde desktop', which seems to work well across a variety of blog search tools. It would be interesting for someone to correlate those

Re: Buzz measurement with Blogs

2006-02-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa It would be interesting for someone to correlate those spikes with particular bits of news. Presumably the december spike on both camps was Linus; I have no idea what happened in late January to spike us. GNOME.conf.au of course! :-) - Jeff -- FISL 7.0: Porto Alegre,

Re: Buzz measurement with Blogs

2006-02-22 Thread Luis Villa
On 2/22/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Luis Villa It would be interesting for someone to correlate those spikes with particular bits of news. Presumably the december spike on both camps was Linus; I have no idea what happened in late January to spike us. GNOME.conf.au