Thursday, February 20, 2003

More analysis More proof it's just nanoseconds after the Big Bang on this blog thing. Kevin Burton just came out with Newsmonster. He explains: NewsMonster is an advanced weblog manager, reputation system, micropayment economy, and semantic web application. NewsMonster allows the user to keep track of news and use reputation within the blogging community to help discover track of news and use reputation within the blogging community to help discover new weblogs, important articles, and other compelling relationships. [The Doc Searls Weblog] comment [] 11:04:37 AM

Context Analysis The application is definitely not new.  Marketers and intelligence analysts have long used the study of discussion of terms in the written and electronic media to see where the public and opinion leaders were going.  Besides, aren't the tools from Daypop, Metalinker, Blogdex, Technorati and Google already providing us such information? Harbingery, cont'd. Ready to have your blogs data mined? An excerpt: Kleinberg suggests that the method could be applied to weblogs to track new social trends. For example, identifying word bursts in the hundreds of thousands of personal diaries now on the web could help advertisers quickly spot an emerging craze. [The Doc Searls Weblog] comment [] 11:00:14 AM