It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. New on Irregular Tracking: Blog SaturationAt Irregular Tracking, we follow the statistics of the 2004 Presidential race that no one else bothers with, keeping an alternative track of the contenders for the White House. Just now, we've added a new statistic that we're going to follow: Blog Saturation. The blog saturation of a candidate is measured as the percentage of all mentions of Presidential contenders in RSS-Syndicated Weblogs, or "blogs," that refer to any one particular candidate. Data is grabbed from Feedster, the search engine of RSS-syndicated blogs. The underground media known as the "blogosphere" tracks the less formal spread of news and views about a contender from blog to blog, and thereby from heart to heart. To the extent that a candidate saturates the blogs, it may mean they're gaining heat. Conversely, it may be an indication that they're getting a lot of heat. Here's the stat in graphical form. Interpret it as you will!
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