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Part 2: Volume and Blog Hotspots |
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Part 3: Election Themes in Blogs and Online News |
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Election Trends 2006 Press Release |
Singapore General Election Trends 2006 is a service using Trendicate technology that tracks blogs and media sites openly available in the Internet. It then mines these massive unstructured information automatically using sophisticated natural language processing tools for meaningful trends that leads to knowledge discovery.
These Trend Graphs provide the answers to the following questions: Which are the blogs and news media that produce the most articles on the election? What are the key themes that these articles talk about? Which GRCs and SMCs are discussed most frequently?
NexLabs' Trendicate is a new generation of market intelligence solution that offers insights into the competitive landscape. It uses patented technologies to monitor the rich content in the Internet that are then automatically categorised, and analysed with state-of-the-art natural language processing tools. Sophisticated knowledge discovery technologies in Trendicate transform information into actionable intelligence thus empowering enterprises with insights of emerging trends, online mindshare, brand management and even to discover new knowledge about the market.
Singapore General Election Trends 2006 consists of Trend Graphs based on the information that were tracked online. It does not make any commentary on the political and election campaign in Singapore .
For more information on Trendicate, click here.Average Daily Blog Posting on Singapore General Election 2006
The Blogosphere was abuzz with blog chatters during the Singapore General Election 2006. During the period of election campaigning, the number of blog postings increase by more than 9 folds as compared to the period before the election was announced. A total of 3537 blog postings were detected by Trendicate during the period from 1 April to 14 May 2006.
Top Blog and Online Media on Singapore General Election 2006
A total of 2258 blog sites and 236 online news sites were monitored during the period from 1 April to 14 May 2006. The high volume of blog articles from numerous blog sites suggests that the notion of “Citizen Journalism” caught on during Singapore General Election 2006. There were numerous postings in blogs sites where bloggers, playing the role of citizen journalists, reported what they saw, heared and felt after attending each election rally.
The following Trend Graph shows the top 10 blog site with regular posting on the Singapore general election.
The following Trend Graph shows the top 10 foreign online news site covering the Singapore General Election:
It is interesting to note that amongst the top 10 foreign media, the top 4 countries covering Singapore General Election 2006 are the US, Malaysia, Australia and China:
