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Four kinds of blogs: political, gossip, mom and music

Four kinds of blogs: political, gossip, mom and music

Tim Finin, 1:00pm 27 April 2006

ClickZ news reports:

“A new survey released today of over 36,000 readers of blogs shows different segments of blog readers have distinct characteristics. Conducted by the Blogads network, the study breaks out blog audiences into four categories: readers of political, gossip, mom and music blogs.”

Here are results of the blogads survey. While these are interesting, our own studies suggest (here and here) that we need a richer ontology of blog topics and better techniques of identifying the feeds that matter.

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