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Jon Stewart's ``Crossfire'' Transcript Most Blogged News Item of 2004, Intelliseek Finds; Yahoo! News the Top News Source, Boing Boing the Top Blog, Says BlogPulse.Com Year-End ReviewCINCINNATI --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 15, 2004 -- The transcript of comedian Jon Stewart's not-so-funny October debate with CNN "Crossfire" hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala was the No. 1 "blogged" news item of 2004 at BlogPulse.com, according to marketing intelligence firm Intelliseek. Bloggers linked to the "Crossfire" transcript in their online commentaries 1,880 times in 2004, followed by 1,415 references to Slate.com's "Unfairenheit 9/11: The Lies of Michael Moore" and 1,174 citations for the BBC's obituary of radio DJ John Peel. The data was compiled by Intelliseek's BlogPulse (http://www.blogpulse.com), an automated blog portal that tracks and analyzes more than two million blogs daily. Blogs, short for weblogs, are easily published web sites that serve as online diaries, journals, newsletters or sources of opinion, information and expertise. By some estimates, the Internet now hosts 5-8 million blogs. "Blogs are proving to be powerful resources for sharing news and keeping issues alive in the public's mind," says Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek's chief marketing officer. "CNN reaped a tremendous amount of awareness by making the Stewart transcript available on its web site." Comedian Stewart hosts Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." During his Crossfire appearance, Stewart lambasted his hosts for reducing the level of public discourse on serious political issues to shouting matches and sound bites. Bloggers frequently post links to other news stories, blogs or web sites in their regular postings, and tallies of those links determined the BlogPulse.com year-end findings. Other top news stories, in order, were Common Dreams' "Evidence Mounts That Vote May Have Been Hacked" (Nov. 6; 966 citations), CBS News' "CBS Names Probe Panel" (Sept. 22; 953) and The Nation's "100 Facts and 1 Opinion: The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration" (Oct. 30; 783). Other key findings from the BlogPulse.com 2004 review of the blogosphere: Top people/personalities: President George Bush (637,646 citations); Sen. John Kerry (411,977); movie character Harry Potter (333,418); singer Britney Spears (119,661) and film maker Michael Moore (111,876). Others of note: No. 6 Saddam Hussein (85,311); No. 12 Osama Bin Laden (63,003), No. 39 former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (23,649 hits) and radio No. 91 DJ Howard Stern (13,236 hits). Top News Sources: Yahoo! News (205,093 citations); The New York Times (188,596); BBC (161,805), CNN (144,560) and The Washington Post (113,417). Others of note: No. 14 Fox News (34,915), No. 24 CBS News (19,865), and at No. 85, the English-version web site of Aljazeera.net (6,834). Top Blogs: BoingBoing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (23,836 citations); DailyKos political blog (21,530); Instapundit political blog (21,391), The Drudge Report news/political blog (19,220); and Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters (18,901). Top Web Sites: Hello.com (571,569 citations), Quizilla.com (440,364), Memegen.net (286,362), Amazon.com (255,152) and Go-Quiz.com (217,443). (Many of the top web sites are used by bloggers as resources for quizzes, icons or interactive features they post on their blogs). Intelliseek will discuss these and other year-end findings at a one-hour webinar 4 p.m.(ET) Thursday Dec. 16, "2004 in Review: A Look at the Year in Blogging." Register at http://www.feedbackasp.com/webinarsignup or call 1-888-333-3222. A summary of the BlogPulse data will be featured soon at BlogPulse.com. About Intelliseek (http://www.intelliseek.com) Cincinnati-based Intelliseek provides technology solutions that help marketers derive intelligence from numerous data sources, including internal CRM systems and the growing amount of consumer-generated media (CGM) found in online discussion forums, message boards, review sites and blogs. |
