Wonkosphere volumes explodes
by WonkoSteve and WonkoKevin
Wonkosphere volume has exploded as the primary season has begun. The number of blogs that we are tracking in our directory has only slightly increased–we add a couple of new blogs each day–but the number of posts by the blogs in the directory has increased by over two-fold. The graph below shows the number of total blog posts we tracked, daily from December until yesterday. We can see that Saturdays and Sundays typically are down days and Wednesdays usually have the highest volume, further support of our theory that political bloggers are either doing it full time, or use it as a substitute for working rather than as “relaxation” and as a hobby on the weekend. More striking however is the increase in volume on January 2, moving from an average volume of about 1000 per day to 2000 per day. As mentioned previously, this represents a new phase of the Wonkosphere, and one in which candidate-only blogs will have diminishing influence on Wonkosphere numbers.
