Politics, Blogs Were Hot Web Topics in '06

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NEW YORK Political vitriol and the blogoshere itself were the most fervently discussed matters on blogs last year, according to a report from Nielsen BuzzMetrics.

Postings that generated the most links and commentary were mainly focused on political discourse and satire. In fact, as many bloggers responded to some of the year’s biggest political events by reacting to comments made by TV personalities like Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.

But the biggest blog post of the year, according to BuzzMetrics, came in the form of a petition protesting changes in Live Journal, a popular blogging platform.



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