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What are Marina City residents thinking? Study of blog words provides clues.

9-Oct-08 – An analysis of blog entries over the past six months reveals an interesting list of words most commonly used by Marina City residents. MarinaCityOnline.com developed a small program to rank each word on a web page by how often it appears.

Not counting common words like “the,” the 20 most popular words on Marina Watch Dog Sound Off from May 9 to October 9 are as follows…

board141
palin141
think140
mccain118
people117
marina114
obama111
city108
room84
building81
meeting73
blog69
landmark67
years63
landmarking54
owners53
chicago52
country52
president48
kimmel47

While residents appear focused on the upcoming election, the MTCA board of directors, and landmarking, over at Marina City Online a similar analysis of news articles suggests a comparable but less-global outlook. Our world appears comprised mainly of Marina City, MTCA. Chicago, and Dick’s Last Resort.

From January to October, the most popular words appearing in MCO news articles are…

city358
marina319
mtca156
chicago152
dicks99
property94
board90
landmark83
review83
building81
according80
residents79
kimmel73
resort72
meeting71
condominium69
hotel66
tower66
years63
illinois62

Words appearing on both lists are: board, marina, city, building, meeting, landmark, years, chicago, and kimmel.