From a post on The Blog Herald’s comments:
forums are a great place to start looking for the hot topics and those that gain more attention than others, are ones you may want to consider posting about.
Yup!
Often when I tell bloggers they should track forums relevant to their topics, they think this means you have to post in them. Nope: use forums as a way to gauge what the collective Borg around your topic is wanting to know about. You barely even have to read the forum responses. Just scan the headlines.

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