Here's a cool search tool that might be handy for editors wanting to keep track of what's trendy and hot. Intelliseek has launched a free website called
Blogpulse.com which tracks and measures "buzz" about key issues, trends, personalities, and links in more than 1 million blogs. Click on "key people," "key phrases," or "top links" to find out what's being written about most in the blog world. It's a tool that can be especially useful in making sure that news editors don't miss stories that may be hot among bloggers but not yet mainstream media.
I just checked "key phrases" and was surprised at the results. "Mexican air force" was at the top; bloggers are talking a lot about reports of pilots observing a flock of UFOs. No. 2 was "Reform party"; Ralph Nader has been endorsed by the third party. And No. 3 was "Abu Musab Zarqawi," the Al Qaeda terrorist leader thought to have beheaded American
Nicholas Berg. Who'd have thought that UFOs would outdo the Iraqi prisoner-abuse and Berg-beheading stories for what people are writing about in their blogs!
Cool extra feature:
Create your own blog trendline.
