[Air-l] Help with blogpost search

[Ericka Menchen Trevino]

I've had this sort of problem before also. I was looking for what
people were saying about folksonomy and delicious around October 2005
on blogs. I was following that information pretty closely at the time
and I remember certain themes, but I was entirely frustrated by the
various searches. The best thing for me to do was search particular
blogs I was reading (the ones I remember and are still online) and
follow the links and trackbacks. Fortunately it wasn't a major part of
my research - just looking for a mood or impression rather than
statistical significance - and I was already familiar with the
sources, otherwise I'm not aware of any good tools for this.
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Ericka Menchen Trevino
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On 7/11/06, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
> If i were you, i would just contact technorati directly, explain what
> you are doing and why you would like the data.  they probably have
> the data, just don't float it to the web.
> On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Ana Keshelashvili wrote:
>
> > Dear Maciej, thanks, Google blogsearch really gives that nice
> > option to
> > search within certain time-frame, however, my biggest problem with
> > blogpost searhchers is that none of them (those I've tried out)
> > explain
> > properly how representative the returned search results are. Any ideas
> > about it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Maciej Kos wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Ana,
> >>
> >> Have you tried http://blogsearch.google.com ?
> >> It gives you a nice option to search within a specific time range.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >> Maciej
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Dear Aoir Colleagues,
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to research what were the US bloggers saying about
> >>> publication of Muhammad cartoon for the first 6 months of this year.
> >>> I was trying to collect data through Technorati, but it doesn't
> >>> return results from the beginning of January, also as I'm aware, it
> >>> doesn't necessarily give results from some of A-list bloggers (not
> >>> sure if that's true). I turned to BlogPulse search. I was wondering,
> >>> if anyone could give an opinion about BlogPulse searcher, how
> >>> representative it is or how it collects and returns blog posts.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Best,
> >>>
> >>> Ana Keshelashvili,
> >>> Faculty Member,
> >>>
> >>> Caucasus School of Journalism and
> >>> Media Management, Tbilisi, Georgia
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