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Submitted by Jon Henke on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 18:32
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This is interesting:

Instapundit isn't doing too bad, either, with his daily traffic up to 376,000/day. The traffic trends of Daily Kos and Hot Air are even more interesting...

Daily Kos

  • April '08: 29,262,488 (visits)
  • March '09: 23,987,984
  • Traffic: -5,274,504

Hot Air

  • April '08: 7,616,673 (visits)
  • March '09: 17,897,554
  • Traffic: +10,280,881

Last month, Simon Owens found that post-election blog traffic declined 58% on the Left, compared to 36% on the Right.

There is no simple explanation for this.  Obviously, the Left's higher baseline and more contentious 2008 primary/election season plays a part.  But I suspect we'll be rediscovering something we had previously learned in the 90's and 00's: the internet is good for insurgencies and opposition.

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one note about the Simon analysis

Submitted by Ray in TX on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 19:07.

DailyKos is the 800-pound gorilla in the world of political blogs, comprising fully 70% of the liberal blog traffic he tracked. So, the -58% decline in liberal blogs is really skewed by the 63% drop in that site. The non-DKos liberal blogs dropped 45%, which is a lot closer to the decline seen by conservative blogs.

I think the effect you are seeing is that a lot of liberal surfers who don't normally go to blogs went to DKos for their political fix as the Presidential election neared while conservative voters became increasingly despondent and instead tuned out. Everyone knows about DKos, it actually has fairly mainstream liberal views, and it's easy to navigate. When the election ended, those new visitors fell off the blog-reading map.

However, I will say that the recent fascism-drumbeat on the Right has really fueled a rise in conservative blogging recently. It may or may not be temporary, depending on what happens with the economy.

 

right. an analysis of commenters on dailykos

Submitted by RisingTide on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 09:03.

might net you a different result entirely -- more in keeping with the 'core' commenters at a place like myDD or thenextright.

Dailykos sometimes feels too large to be a community, but somehow people invest in it anyway.

I gotta agree -- the internets are good for rants.

Submitted by RisingTide on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 09:05.

Well spoken rage plays well.

Then again, the kos crowd would maintain (with a LOT of truth) that they haven't gotten even close to 'triumphing' over the Corporate Democrats.

Internet did show us sth

Submitted by albsure12 on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 03:36.

what caused that....i think it's hard to say..

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