Glittering Gold, Viral Birdies, and Other Olympian Buzz Charts

Here's a few fun "data" views from Nielsen's BlogPulse monitoring tool, which tracks nearly 80 million blogs daily.  You can run your own trend charts. 

Don't Dis Badminton:  In the blogosphere at least, the birdie stayed in play with the hot, hip sands of beach volleyball.

Is Bela Karoyli the next Howard Cosell? You never know, but at one point he nearly eclipsed Costas on blog mentions.

Gold Glitters -- Disproportionately:  Yes, indeed.

If you are still hungry for Olympic data and bloggage, my work colleague Jon Gibs is blogging away on Nielsen's Analyst Blog.   

Comments

[ryanlarosa]

Bela certainly stole the show and in fact did more for marketing than just generate blog posts. Check out the following video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76i67zFm3Ow