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

October 9, 2008 – 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…

board	141
palin	141
think	140
mccain	118
people	117
marina	114
obama	111
city	108
room	84
building	81
meeting	73
blog	69
landmark	67
years	63
landmarking	54
owners	53
chicago	52
country	52
president	48
kimmel	47

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…

city	358
marina	319
mtca	156
chicago	152
dicks	99
property	94
board	90
landmark	83
review	83
building	81
according	80
residents	79
kimmel	73
resort	72
meeting	71
condominium	69
hotel	66
tower	66
years	63
illinois	62

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