Abstract
More human geographers could benefit from analyzing blogs as a method in their research. Blogs are time capsules of data that can provide incredibly useful and otherwise potentially unattainable snapshots of the author’s thoughts and opinions at a specific point in time. This article draws empirically on a recent research project where blogs acted as caches of information that provided two main benefits. First, blogs were effective as preliminary sources for the array and quality of historical data stored in the blogs, helping to follow historical pathways and ensuring strong preliminary data that shaped further data collection. Second, blogs supplied accurate and detailed information that could be directly cited in the research and otherwise proved difficult to find on the opinions and motives of actors at that time, providing unique insights into their behaviors and consequent impacts on the economic landscape. Although not without limitations, blog analysis offers many potential benefits for human geographers and this article provides insights into how they can be obtained.
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