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Nielsen has released a list of the top 10 blogged topics with swine flu taking the number 1 spot.
Whilst the World Health Organisation only issued the first outbreak notice on the 24th of April, the issue quickly came to the forefront in the blogosphere.
Pete Blackshaw, the vice president of digital strategic services at Nielsen Online explains that blogs are influencial and have a far reaching effect because “they are talking and people are listening”.
“Understanding what is currently important to bloggers is essential to marketers since we know that highly blogged about topics are important indicators of conversational sustainability and impact,” said Blackshaw. “Moreover, those topics with high blog links tend to embed themselves prominently in search results.”
The top 10 list is as follows:
1. Flu Outbreak
2. Easter
3. Somali Pirates
4. 2009 NFL Draft
5. Democratic Party
6. Nuclear Weapons
7. Bea Arthur
8. Hugo Chavez
9. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
10. Carrie Prejean
To see what South African’s are blogging about, the blog aggregator site Afrigator provides a twitter feed with snippets of what’s topical and also aggregates the most popular tags from SA blogs. A brief glance revealed that the current hot topics (when analysing the tags) are ‘Swine flu’, ‘recession’, ‘UEFA’, ‘stumbleupon’ and ‘microsoft’.
Whilst the World Health Organisation only issued the first outbreak notice on the 24th of April, the issue quickly came to the forefront in the blogosphere.
Pete Blackshaw, the vice president of digital strategic services at Nielsen Online explains that blogs are influencial and have a far reaching effect because “they are talking and people are listening”.
“Understanding what is currently important to bloggers is essential to marketers since we know that highly blogged about topics are important indicators of conversational sustainability and impact,” said Blackshaw. “Moreover, those topics with high blog links tend to embed themselves prominently in search results.”
The top 10 list is as follows:
1. Flu Outbreak
2. Easter
3. Somali Pirates
4. 2009 NFL Draft
5. Democratic Party
6. Nuclear Weapons
7. Bea Arthur
8. Hugo Chavez
9. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
10. Carrie Prejean
To see what South African’s are blogging about, the blog aggregator site Afrigator provides a twitter feed with snippets of what’s topical and also aggregates the most popular tags from SA blogs. A brief glance revealed that the current hot topics (when analysing the tags) are ‘Swine flu’, ‘recession’, ‘UEFA’, ‘stumbleupon’ and ‘microsoft’.