I’m still getting a lot of milage from my test Cicarelli post of last week even though she’s dropped to 12th place. 

And will somebody PLEASE blog about the winners of the Yahoo Hack Day?!   Wait…here it is at Techcrunch That event was so great…..nobody had time to blog it thoroughly except to link to the very clever Beck Video.     Beck and his band – themselves mashup mavens and sometime hackers – gave a killer concert at the Yahoo event that will probably go down as one of the best gatherings of the year.  

Top Searches

1. Jonny
2. Pinky
3. Foley
4. Mark Foley
5. Google
6. So You Call Thi…
7. Hack Day
8. Hackday
9. Teacher
10. Netvibes
11. Cicarelli
12. Video
13. Yahoo Hack Day
14. Naomi
15. Podcast Expo

Top Tags

1. Bush
2. rochester big and tall
3. Republicans
4. office chair big and tall
5. rochesters big and tall
6. web-20
7. Iraq
8. youtube
9. wordpress
10. Terrorism
11. man belt big and tall
12. big and tall merino wool sweater
13. big and tall clothes for men
14. War
15. Comedy

From an SEO perspective it appears we may be seeing signs that writing about the top term is less likely to get a lot of traffic than writing about highly searched but secondary term that is getting much less press. Still way too early to come to this conclusion though.

The Technorati search list is changing more day to day than I would expect, perhaps an indication of the fleeting nature of human interest and big media focus. The tag list seems more stable and that would make sense if we assume the following about writers vs readers:

Blog writers are a smaller, more focused group

Blog writers tend to stick to same general topics

(?) Blog writers tend to address richer, more stable, deeper subjects and therefore these don’t change at the whim of masses and mass media.

Top Searches

1. Jonny
2. Cicarelli
3. Pinky
4. Xing
5. Bitacle
6. Openbc
7. Stuff Happens a…
8. Bin Laden
9. Lindsay Lohan
10. Video
11. Asian
12. Paginas Da Vida
13. Ubuntu
14. Mandingo
15. Axis of Sketchy…

Top Tags

1. Islam
2. Bush
3. youtube
4. Iraq
5. Microsoft
6. Politica
7. Terrorism
8. ebay
9. sexy
10. War
11. web2.0
12. foto
13. bin Laden
14. web-20
15. Poesie

My earlier post with these technorati search terms seems to be getting a some attention for the term “Assparade” rather than the post I thought entitled “Cicarelli“, but I don’t have good stats yet.

I shall say with great pride and elitism that at Technorati this morning I was the top search result for “Assparade”, apparently simply because I put up the technorati list on my blog.

Today’s technorati terms are different but still indicative of the chasm of diversity between blog readers and blog writers.

Top Technorati Blog Searches September 23 (or maybe Sept 22?) – what are blog readers trying to find?

1. Cicarelli
2. Jonny
3. Xing
4. Pinky
5. Openbc
6. Bin Laden
7. Bitacle
8. Hugo Chavez
9. Assparade
10. Asian
11. Axis of Sketchy…
12. Grey’s Anatomy
13. Richard Hammond
14. Daniela Cicarel…
15. Google

Top Technorati tags – what people are writing about.

1. Bush
2. Islam
3. Pensieri
4. Comedy
5. Microsoft
6. youtube
7. Amore
8. iPod
9. sexy
10. fashion
11. foto
12. Politica
13. wordpress
14. Politik
15. torture

Although I do understand the diversity to some extent, particularly interesting is that “real” news like “Hugo Chavez” is not getting written up as much as it’s getting searched for.   I’m guessing that the blog writer demographic is still very narrowly “tech focused” but I wonder how it is politically?    Probably polarized, such that people with “strong” political views are far more likely to blog in that space.