Recording frontpages

Research question

Record a week of frontpages from engines/platforms. Are they mentioning things at an opportune time? What are the common issues? What are the different times? What types of popularity or relevance mechanisms do these devices have? What do the spheres anticipate?

method

Select a list of frontpages of dominant engines, portals and platforms.

http://www.youtube.com/

http://twitter.com/ or http://search.twitter.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.delicious.com/

http://foursquare.com/

http://digg.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://news.google.com/

http://blogsearch.google.com/

http://video.google.com/

http://books.google.com/

Relatively static frontpages:

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.google.com/

http://scholar.google.com

http://www.bing.com/

Record the changes of the frontpages for a week.

Analyze the trending and happening things recommended by the devices.