Kevin McCarthy

Blogging Summer Slow-down

Across the web on various blogs about web activity, and activity in general, it seems that there is a common theme that ‘things will pick up come September’.  Particularly here in Boston where Pinyadda’s headquarters are located, there is a lot of chatter about how no one does much in the summer months – especially August.  From taking a look at Pinyadda’s index data from the “Boston startup” topic, the summer months are certainly a little slower (see complete list of sites indexed here).

Below you will see that I was able to compare how active the Boston start-up scene was month to month (see Graph 1 below).

Graph 1- Comparing the number of items by Boston start-up bloggers/sites over 4 months of 2010.

Boston start-up content creation in August 2010 will be down 32% from what it was in May 2010, clearly indicating a summer-slowdown.

I was interested in seeing which sites/blogs created the most content over these summer months as well.  Chart 1 below holds the twenty most productive content producers from June 1st, 2010 to August 23rd, 2010.

Chart 1- Boston start-up site/blogs with their summer 2010 content creation

Anyone surprised by the data?  Let’s get some predictions on how much of a bounce back we will see in September.

If you’d like more data from Boston’s Summer Start-up Scene content creation or would like to use Pinyadda’s data in some other way, please leave a comment below.

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Thanks for posting this information. It's always nice to have numbers to back up our claim as the No. 1 news source for New England technology business!

Kevin, I like this article. I believe that our beloved brewmasters and eating establishments have a role in the summer slowdown, if ya know what I mean... hah

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