Yet another memetracking site keyed into the blogosphere is the still-in-beta BlogPulse, which identifies key phrases (usually of two words or more) – as well as topics, people, and links – that are appearing most often in tracked weblogs each day.
I’m not sure how they determine what’s a topic and what’s a people, but they use something called Intelliseek to do it.
However it works, the key people listing is kind of fun. Here’s today’s:
- President Bush
- Wesley Clark
- Howard Dean
- Dick Cheney
- Bill Clinton
- Paul Krugman
- John Ritter
- Defense Secretary Donald H . Rumsfeld
- David Bowie
- Michael Moore
- Colin Powell
- Yasser Arafat
- John Ashcroft
- John Edwards
- Gray Davis
- David Blaine
- Milton Friedman
- Harry Potter
- Anna Lindh
- Minister Tony Blair
- John Kerry
- Johnny Depp
- Christiane Amanpour
- Bill Gates
- Kevin Drum
- Jesus Christ
- Dave Barry
- Al Gore
- Stephen King
- Ben Affleck
- Karl Rove
- Jennifer Lopez
- John Burns
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Ann Coulter
- Jack Sparrow
- Britney Spears
- Mark Steyn
- Tim Russert
- David Kay
Of course, some of these – such as Jack Sparrow, Harry Potter, Ann Coulter, and Britney Spears – are fictional characters.