ESZTER HARGITTAI'S RESEARCH ON BLOGS The graph above represents the results for a search in Lexis-Nexis Academic for "weblog" and "blog" in the General News section of Major Papers from 1995 to 2004 (these searches also turn up results for the plural of these terms). This section includes 47 (53 in 2004) papers from across the world including 24 (29 in 2004) US dailies. The figure shows the change over the past eight years. The 2004 numbers include coverage until November 29, 2004. Please note that this figure does not give any information about the total sum of articles on the topic because 1. some articles mention both "blog" and "weblog" and are thus counted in both columns (which also explains why I decided not to stack the two columns on top of each other); 2. I did not do a search for other related terms such as blogger or blogging which may have excluded some articles. Moreover, although for the earlier years I checked each article to make sure they were actually about Weblogs, for the later years when there are lots of matches I did not go through each article to see if they are on topic. The information on this graph is thus just an estimate of the actual occurance of these words in major print media outlets. Also, because it seems that Lexis-Nexis Academic searched more newspapers in 2004 than earlier years I first posted an earlier version of this graph on the Web in April, 2003. I posted an updated version back in March, 2004. The material on this Web page is licensed under a Creative Commons License.