U.S. Elections - Anatomy Of An Internet Scoop
Monday, 14 July 2003, 12:39 am
Article: The Scoop Editor
Last week's Scoop exposes - see... Story Of The Week: Inside A U.S. Election Program - on
security problems with Election Voting machines in the
United States – have been far and way Scoop's top rating
stories ever.
According to Red Sheriff's audited internet
traffic statistics Bev Harris's " Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program "
has been read 60,247 times on Scoop.co.nz since publication,
meanwhile Scoop's own C.D. Sludge has had 41,465 views of
his, "Sludge Report #154 – Bigger Than
Watergate!".
Both stories have been published on
numerous other websites verbatim - as requested by Scoop's
editors - and so it would seem reasonable to assume that
each of the stories have reached an audience of well over
100,000 people.
One indication of how much the stories
have been republished can be seen by searching Google for "bigger
than watergate sludge", a query which at the time of
publication was returning 534 results. The same query of Usenet Newsgroups returns 49
results.
Probably the best evidence of intense public
interest in this story Scoop came via the response to the
story in the blogoshere, where literally hundreds of
bloggers decided to post links to the stories.
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The images
below show the peak rankings achieved in three of the most
popular blog watching link ranking sites. Below each image
you will find links to the lists of blog
citations.
Popdex
Popdex Blog
Citations:
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Sludge #154-
Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program Day Pop
Popdex Blog
Citations:
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Sludge Report #154 – Bigger Than Watergate!-
Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program Blogdex
Popdex Blog
Citations:
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Sludge Report #154
– Bigger Than Watergate!-
Inside A U.S.
Election Vote Counting Program- Technorati – 116 Links To Inside A Voting
Program
- Technorati – 82 Links To Sludge #154
However though
the stories have clearly hit a nerve online, the
"mainstream" news media, both online and offline remain well
behind play so far. With the exception of the UK's Inquirer -
which took up the offer to republish the story in full – Google News is so far showing only two links to the
story.
Finally, according to Scoop's own logs the
following have been the top 910 referring pages to Bev
Harris's "Inside A U.S. Vote Counting Program
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