What do you think was the most blogged about article in the UK Press this week?
'Mobile phones "more dangerous than smoking or asbestos"' by Geoffrey Lean in last Sunday's Independent. 140 blogs linked to Lean's piece, from Greensboring in the States ("I wonder which is more painful, brain cancer or lung cancer?"), to Schall und Rausch in Germany, to 'The Weekly Truth'. Many added their own perspective, a few added further findings (e.g. Rania Masri on the industry response to the scientific report), others added scepticism (e.g. Jason Trost).
How do I know this? Because we've just added a great new feature to http://www.journalisted.com/. Click on any article written by a journalist and you'll be able to see who's blogging about it. We're also in the process of adding who's commenting on it and who's sharing it - via Digg, Newsvine, Reddit etc. (To see a full list of all the articles people are blogging about you can go to www.journalisted.com/buzz.)
Why? So you can see who is saying what about an article. So you can get a little more context around an article and, hopefully, so you can find out more out about a subject.
Our aim is to gather as much useful information about news articles as possible from around the web, so people have the information they need to make up their own minds about a piece they've read.
It's only just gone up in beta so there are a limited number of blogs right now, but it's growing.
If you've got any thoughts about the new feature - or any ideas how we could make it better - please do comment below or drop me an email.
Friday, April 04, 2008
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3 comments:
This is a marvellous tool. I think it would benefit from some date parameters due to the massive amount of content. It would be useful to measure change over time, for example.
Good stuff...I'm pleased to see journalists can now measure their online reach.
Matt - you're right, it could benefit from more parameters. I rightly got scolded by the developers for telling people about a page that was still 'under construction' but I thought it was too good not to share. But yes, more data needed.
Richard - thank you, will keep you posted on further updates soon
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