Rebecca and I initially got interested in the effect that Pinterest had on baking blogs after noticing that one of BrownEyedBakers more popular recipes had an interesting timeline for the comments. The blog (http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2008/06/21/thick-and-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/) had a medium amount of comments when it was posted in 2008, very little in 2009, and then the number of comments steadily increased after 2010. We hypothesized that this was due to the creation and rise of Pinterest in 2010. Below is a link to the presentation we made for our project that examined other blogs and numbers of comments on their recipes. We also looked into why this trend applied to BrownEyedBaker but not to another popular baking blog Bakerella. We used a website called PinPuff.com to calcularte the pinfluence score. This was calculated by looking at the number of followers (reach), activity (number of pins, boards, and likes), ...