Mapping the Blogosphere

dominique_cimafranca writes "Discover Magazine has an interesting article on mapping the blogosphere, reporting on the work of Matthew Hurst. Hurst put together a 3D map of the blogosphere, with bright spots represent sites with the highest number of links and isolated islands represent closed communities like LiveJournal. The study also identifies other islands like sociopolitical commentary, gadget hounds, sports fans, and, um, porn blogs."

Comments

Blogosphere mapped finally?

[rts008]

Now that we have tactical info, we can nuke it from orbit...only way to be sure.

Spherical projection

[charlieo88]

I can understand not providing the sphere as maybe a little java applet that would allow readers to zoom in and/or rotate the sphere to get a better perspective. That would require more than a little effort.

But cartographers have been managing to project a two dimensional representation of a sphereical object for hundreds of years. Too bad they couldn't use some of that "map" technology to make the image more useful.

Re:Spherical projection

[GrumpySimon]

But the blogospherewebtwopointoh cannot leverage existing technologies! That would be agsinst the principle of long-tailedness! What this needs is some AJAX map projection system preferably built in Ruby on Rails with some sweeeeet 2.0 domain name like map.aumatic.us.

Bright spots

[Anonymous Coward]

you mean that look like Acne and Boils on the face of the Internet ?

Re:Blogosphere Not A Buzzword

[Anonymous Coward]

blog as buzzword

Oh, I don't take issue with the term "blog" but I do take issue with the pseudo-intellectual idiots who throw the term "blogosphere" around until I'd like to seem the be the star of a tragic farming accident. Most of them are self-important denizens of the tardosphere anyway...

Re:Can we all agree?

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

The not-as-clever-as-he-liked-to-think inventor was older than 12, you insensitive clod!