BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs
Posted 11/03/2004 under
webloggia •
According to BlogPulse:
“BlogPulse Key Phrases, Key People, BlogBites, and Top Links are mined daily from new entries in over 80,000 weblogs using machine learning algorithms and natural language processing techniques. BlogPulse mines for bursty phrases and person names instead of for the most popular ones. The most popular phrases and names change very slowly over time. The burstiest phrases and names are those whose frequency of occurrence has increased significantly over the past two weeks, often dramatically.”
From Wednesday, January 1, 2003 until 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) on Sunday, January 12, voters nominated their favorite weblogs.
On Thursday, January 16, a panel of 50 random voters received an e-mail. It listed the weblogs that received the most nominations. They had until 10:00 PM EST on Monday, January 20 to privately submit their five favorites (six for Weblog of the Year) for each category. The five (or six for Weblog of the Year) receiving the most votes became finalists. I (Nikolai Nolan) only voted in the case of a tie for fifth place.
On Tuesday, January 21, the finalists were announced and voting was open again to choose the winners.
Voting closed at 10:00 PM EST on Friday, January 31. The winners will be announced on Sunday, March 9. Why so late?
Yes, for the first time, the Weblog Awards? will have a ceremony. It’ll be held at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, USA at 3:00 PM EST on Sunday, March 9.
If everything goes as planned, the usual IRC ceremony will happen simultaneously, on irc.turlyming.net, port 6667, channel #BlogIRC.