CASCADES project: Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks ( a study by School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University): "Rankings are based on the following question: Which blogs should one read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere?

Budget=100 blogs:

If I can read 100 blogs, which should I read to be most up to date? Unit cost (each blog costs 1 unit), optimizing the information captured -- population affected (we want to be the first to know about something with many people blogging about the story after us)

Editor: It seems that the smart folks over at Carnegie Mellon University did a study to see which blogs you should be reading to keep up on things. They were looking for the top 100 blogs that would cover items before most other sites. Basically, who told you first about stuff that you would later be reading about all over the place. Now while I would like to say that Privacy Digest was number one, we weren't. But we did make the top 100 list at position number 92. :-)

I wasn't going to mention this report at first(since it would have been mainly self-promotion and isn't related to privacy), but it seems to be getting quoted a lot and is sending us new readers.

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(Read Original Article - Via School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.)