The BlogPulse team believes very much in nurturing researchers in the area of blog analysis. This is why we made a data set of blog content available in conjunction with the upcoming Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystems. Recently, there have been a couple of projects launched that use either BlogPulse or Intelliseek data. One is BlogsLikeThis - a system that helps you look for blogs on certain topics. The second is a piece of art/data visualization called The Dumpster which is generating quite a bit of buzz. I find the conversation around the later to be quite fascinating. Having observed the effort required to create the data that backs the project, the superficial 'this is cool' commentary that it receives is, quite probably, the online equivalent of the few seconds an art museum visitor spends on each piece as they walk, without pause, through the Louvre.
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