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[Previous entry: "Classifying computer and Internet terms"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Letting go"] "Tracking blog coverage" 04/07/2003 Entry I was looking up the newspaper and magazine citations of some terms on LexisNexis Academic Universe and thought it would be interesting to see the change in how big media outlets have covered the blogging phenomenon. So I did a search for "weblog" and "blog" in the General News section of Major Papers from 1995 to 2003 (these searches also turn up results for the plural of these terms). This section includes 47 papers from across the world including 24 US dailies. The figure below shows the change over the past eight years. The 2003 figures are just for the first three months of 2003. Please note that this figure does not give any information about the total sum of articles on the topic because 1. some articles mention both "blog" and "weblog" and are thus counted in both columns; 2. I did not do a search for other related terms such as blogger or blogging which may have excluded some articles. Moreover, although for the earlier years I checked each article to make sure they were actually about Weblogs, for the later years when there are lots of matches I did not go through each article to see if they are related so the figures may be slightly off. Still, I thought it was interesting to see how news coverage of blogs has changed over the years in the more traditional media outlets. Replies: 1 Comment has been posted, click here to see it and add your own This is very interesting indeed. I expect these number to skyrocket over the next few months ... thanks for sharing. Posted by kaye trammell @ 04/09/2003 11:01 PM CST April 2003 S M T W T F S     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30       Links of Interest How to win the Nobel Prize Click for Mammogram Play "Match That Blogger" Blogathon 03 Archives Recent entries » This blog is moving » Happy Arrival Day! » Stay tuned for more blog » Political blogger who is who dinner » Digital divide symposium » Some light shed on crazy 9/11 rumors » Our gendered world » All comments closed » Extending Internet access to low-income communities » Shattered » The story behind red alert » Weekend trivia » Would you cut up a book? » Pizza, cholesterol check, the works » Welcome Previous entries May, 2002 - July, 2003 Blogger info Eszter Hargittai Communication Studies Department Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 blog at eszter dot com Blogs I Visit The small print A few words on what I will and will not post on this blog (taken from my E-LIST entry of January 2, 2002). I have nothing against posting commercial sites as long as they come highly recommended. In fact, I'm quite interested in improving informed consumer choice so I'm very curious to hear about good experiences with online retailers. What I will refrain from posting are sites that require plug-ins or programs that are painful to deal with. Example: I will not post anything that only works with RealOne/RealPlayer as that program is intrusive and annoying beyond belief and I am not willing to reinstall it on my machine (it was hard enough to get rid of it completely in the first place) nor do I want to encourage others to have it. If your site has audio content, please make it available in multiple formats or choose one that can be run on multiple players (e.g. .avi). Feel free to link to my Weblog with or without this graphic button. http://www.esztersblog.com

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