{"id":657,"date":"2004-11-29T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=657"},"modified":"2004-11-29T18:02:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T22:02:44","slug":"culture-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Culture Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Alexa Web Search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/\">Alexa<\/a> is now tracking sites. On their home page they tell you what sites have jumped and they have a &#8220;Traffic Watch&#8221; feature in their <a title=\"travelzoo.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/data\/details\/traffic_details?q=&amp;url=http:\/\/www.travelzoo.com\">Related Info for:<\/a> pages that graphs &#8220;reach&#8221;. A neat feature is that you can compare any of the sites they track.<br \/>\nA couple of years ago I gave a paper on tracking culture by graphing web hits. We (Skip Poehlman, Michael Picheca and I) built a system that could track keywords and store results from daily searches. One could then graph any two against each other and so on. I see now that <a title=\"Alexa -- Liberal Talk Radio?\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.alexa.com\/features\/airamerica.html\">Alexa<\/a> now has this feature and has been tracking some cultural comparisons like &#8220;Liberal Talk Radio&#8221;. Will they generalize this? Will they let us track our stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexa is now tracking sites. On their home page they tell you what sites have jumped and they have a &#8220;Traffic Watch&#8221; feature in their Related Info for: pages that graphs &#8220;reach&#8221;. A neat feature is that you can compare any of the sites they track. A couple of years ago I gave a paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Culture Tracking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}