87036 Resource 81701 49412 49412 1111247339988 1111247505669 Controlled Corporate blogs in the Long Tail

Some excellent stats on blogs and blog postings

<p><a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/">David Sifry</a> has a&nbsp;great series of posts on the State&nbsp; of the blogosphere and the <a title="The long tail definition" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail">long tail</a>.</p><p>Over the past few days he has posted and analyzed stats from <a title="technorati blog search engine" href="http://www.technorati.com/">Technorati </a>on how many <a title="how many blogs in blogosphere" href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000298.html">blogs are being tracked</a>, how often <a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000299.html">posts are made</a> and the influence of blogs.</p><p>The&nbsp;data on blogs in the&nbsp;long tail&nbsp;is particularly relevant for corporate blogs.</p><p>&quot;<em>There is power in the conversations going on around you, and not necessarily from the places that you'd ordinarily expect. Companies that work in conjunction with the trends going on in the long tail: e.g. fostering peoples voices, listening to and incorporating their comments and feedback, and fostering a community have a tremendous opportunity awaiting them,</em>&quot; says Sifry. </p><p /><p /> 9 application/xml false blog blog posting blogosphere corporate blog long tail Blogs represent the hard to monetize long tail of content http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/10/27/the_blogs_long_tail_blogs.htm The Tail Is a High Trust Environment, which is why the Blogosphere's tail is often a place of great influence. http://www.techcentralstation.com/020605B.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 67.101.54.14 67.101.54.14 sally false true false false true 177676 false false true false false false true 81701 blog blogsite/Falkow/web