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Apr. 10th, 2007 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dracodraconisMatthew Hurst (http://datamining.typepad.com/gallery/blog-map-gallery.html) recently generated a map of the most active and interconnected parts of what he terms the "blogosphere". An article appears in the May 2007 edition of Discover magazine for those who are interested.
Livejournal occupies a cluster to the upper right of the graph, outside the bulk of the blogosphere. The represents the relative isolation of LJ from the rest of the blogosphere, but the interconnections are numerous, indicating an active, albeit relatively self-contained, community.
This map differs somewhat from the version published in Discover (see http://allthingsbubba.blogspot.com/2007/04/map-of-blogosphere.html for a transcription of the article), which can be seen below and contains helpful annotations. The variation is most likely due to a rotation of the data space and may also represent a different time period.
LJ is denoted by the number (3) in this version of the map. Two other points of interest are (5) which denotes the people who blog about porn, and (6) which denotes people who blog about sports. Green lines indicate one-way links, purple indicates reciprocal links. The size of each dot represents the number of links and individual blog contains. Reciprocal links show up as blue in the top graphic.
Livejournal occupies a cluster to the upper right of the graph, outside the bulk of the blogosphere. The represents the relative isolation of LJ from the rest of the blogosphere, but the interconnections are numerous, indicating an active, albeit relatively self-contained, community.
This map differs somewhat from the version published in Discover (see http://allthingsbubba.blogspot.com/2007/04/map-of-blogosphere.html for a transcription of the article), which can be seen below and contains helpful annotations. The variation is most likely due to a rotation of the data space and may also represent a different time period.
LJ is denoted by the number (3) in this version of the map. Two other points of interest are (5) which denotes the people who blog about porn, and (6) which denotes people who blog about sports. Green lines indicate one-way links, purple indicates reciprocal links. The size of each dot represents the number of links and individual blog contains. Reciprocal links show up as blue in the top graphic.