BlogPulse, a provider of blog search and blog analysis tools, has announced the launch of BlogPulse Live. BlogPulse Live provides a real-time view of the most popular topics the blogosphere.
Powered by a behind-the-scenes tool we lovingly refer to as FloodGate, BlogPulse Live provides a real-time, minute-by-minute view of the most popular topics that bloggers are writing about. Each topical line represents a percentage of all blog posts as they're published (Eastern time). Click on the small chart on the home page for a larger view.
Here's how it works: BlogPulse Live captures new blog entries, and then text-mining and text-analysis technologies categorize the posts into key subject areas, such as "Diaries" (personal journals), "Politics," "Movies/TV," "Technology," "Sports," "Health," "Religion," "Meme," (online game/activity/quiz that's circulated by/among bloggers) "Food" and more.
BlogPulse Live should be most interesting when there is breaking news or an event with significant coverage like this weekend's Super Bowl. The BlogPulse post about the launch of BlogPulse Live also provided a link to a cool 3-D visualization of the blogosphere from Intelliseek senior research Matthew Hurst. The visualization is explained in this post.
