Fox News Launches Opinion BuzzTracker
Posted on September 16, 2006
Fox News has launched Opinion BuzzTracker, a blog tracking tool developed by Real Clear Politics. The BuzzTracker says it "generates a list of most discussed articles and news stories in the blogosphere." The BuzzTracker is updated hourly. The press release says that Opinion BuzzTracker tracks 5,000 political blogs. An article in the Register hints that the BuzzTracker covers mostly conservative blogs.
Meanwhile, Opinion BuzzTracker - the new blog tracking partnership between FoxNews.com and RealClearPolitics.com - will apparently probe the blogosphere flagging up the most popular politics stories in a given 24 hour period.Political memetrackers like Memeorandum and Megite both appear to cover more topics and include more blog links than BuzzTracker. Fox News is currently not promoting the new Opinion BuzzTracker tool from its homepage.The official statement reads: "The tool permits Internet users to easily filter through thousands of political news articles and blog conversations to determine the 'wisdom of the crowds' in a continuously updated format."
According to Opinion BuzzTracker the top three blogs today come from RightWinged.com, Ace of Spades HQ and And Rightly So! - all "points of the political compass" covered there then ...