My next post in the What makes a blog post popluar? series at the mSpoke blog is now up. This post looks at subjectivity and polarity in blog posts. I think it makes a small but interesting complement to some of the other recent discussions about subjectivity, including Lexalytic’s analysis of the reaction on Twitter to the Motrin ad and Matthew Hurst’s ongoing series of posts on the subject of sentiment mining.
I didn’t report the equivalent per-feed analysis I had performed in the previous post; there was no correlation after that transformation. I wanted to focus on highlighting the very slight positive correlation without bogging the post down with a lot of additional analysis.