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What’s on our mind? Most common words on MCO

July 2, 2009 – The 20 most common words used on Marina City Online, according to Google…

1. marina
2. chicago
3. mtca
4. says
5. condominium
6. building
7. condo
8. attorney
9. tower
10. property
11. unit
12. levin
13. owners
14. towers
15. illinois
16. kimmel
17. according
18. north
19. state
20. dick’s

MCO, meanwhile, has analyzed all of the comments in April, May, and June on the Marina City resident blog, Marina Watch Dog Sound Off. These are the 20 most popular nouns…

1. people
2. blog
3. marina
4. city
5. board
6. post, posts
7. time
8. kcg
9. fox
10. day
11. phl
12. tower
13. news
14. things
15. fire
16. bloggers
17. resident, residents
18. chicago
19. person
20. blogmeister

“kcg” and “phl” are initials used by two popular bloggers, “fox” refers to Fox News, and “blogmeister” is the nickname of the blog’s editor, Mark Ulaszek.

Honorable mentions from the next 12 words include “west” (appearing more often than “east”), “owners,” “renters,” and “donna.”

How this was done: Comments from the blog were copied and pasted into a text file. A Perl script was developed to open the file, isolate each word, create a list of unique words, and then count the number of times each word appears in the text. From the most popular words, nouns were then picked out manually.

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