{"id":1133,"date":"2006-03-20T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T21:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/20\/charts-and-graphs-and-numbers-oh-my\/"},"modified":"2006-03-20T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T21:22:36","slug":"charts-and-graphs-and-numbers-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/charts-and-graphs-and-numbers-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Charts and Graphs and Numbers, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intelliseek has launched a new service called <a href=\"http:\/\/blogpulse.com\/index.html\">Blogpulse<\/a> &#8211; which is an interesting attempt to try to get a handle on what exactly is going on in the blogosphere. The tools purport to show &amp; describe how popular a blog is, how many conversations the blog spawns, and what the up-to-the-minute trends are. <\/p>\n<p>According to Blogpulse, the top-ranked story for today is <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/004796.htm\">a Michelle Malkin piece <\/a>on an Afghani man who is apparently about to be put to death for converting to Christianity.&nbsp; She likes to use the word &quot;moonbat&quot; a lot, which is the preferred epithet of the right-wing blogs.&nbsp; The word in fashion on the left is currently &quot;wingnut.&quot; (Although I have a kind of sneaking hope that &quot;Bushbot&quot; will win out.) <\/p>\n<p>The #2 post is something called <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2006_03_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114274139097157868\">&quot;Hullabaloo&quot;<\/a> &#8211; about the Feingold resolution to censure Bush.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The #3 post is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riehlworldview.com\/carnivorous_conservative\/2006\/03\/aps_loven_not_l.html\">Carnivorous Conservative<\/a>, and it&#8217;s all about the AP story about Bush (and other politicians) using &quot;straw man&quot; arguments in their speeches. <\/p>\n<p>These stories are all about politics &#8211; squabbling amongst the politically furious. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if this trend holds up over the next couple of months &#8211; or if sports, entertainment or porn (ah, the old reliables) will start cracking the top spots&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelliseek has launched a new service called Blogpulse &#8211; which is an interesting attempt to try to get a handle on what exactly is going on in the blogosphere. The tools purport to show &amp; describe how popular a blog is, how many conversations the blog spawns, and what the up-to-the-minute trends are. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[352,370,354],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-online-multimedia","tag-webtech","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}