Showcase.blogpulse.com – Useful Tool For Bloggers

If you are a blogger, then this can be a very cool tool for you.

Ever wanted to track how the [tag-ice]blogosphere[/tag-ice] spreads news?

Using the Conversation Tracker, you can enter in any blog post URL and get a snapshot for how the meme is spreading through the blogosphere. How does it work?

As the website explains, BlogPulse tracks conversations by indexing the full content of weblog posts. First, BlogPulse technology crawls the blog, and then it segments the blog into individual posts and identifies permalinks.

It is important that you know, Nielsen BuzzMetrics is still refining its segmentation algorithm, so you may bump into some posts that don’t belong to the conversation.

This looks like a very useful tool for bloggers. Using the Conversation Tracker, you can enter in any blog post URL and get a snapshot for how the meme is spreading through the [tag-tec]blogosphere[/tag-tec].

When a blogger publishes a post and other bloggers link to it, as mentioned the post becomes part of a conversation. The initial post is the “seed” of the conversation.

Posts linking to the seed are themselves linked to, and so on. From the seed post grows a conversation graph. The nodes of the graph are posts and the arcs of the graph are permalink citations from post to post.

The BlogPulse Conversation Tracker creates a threaded view of the conversation graph. To create a threaded view, it performs a depth-first traversal of the conversation graph, starting from the seed post and visiting each node only once.

So all the bloggers out there, try this and let me know your comments www.showcase.blogpulse.com