Hmm...I always wonder about the value of these sorts of visualizations. Seems like there's too many things that make the representation fall short or simply misrepresent what's going on.
Very often you'll see this sort of thing on music websites where music wonks think they've "mapped out" all music like some enormous molocule.
I can see it looking like a big mess given that, with Myspace, the built-in blogging components of Flickr and other similar applications, there are hundreds of millions of blogs. When I see a map of hits to a popular blog, it looks like a big belt around the earth; a lot of folks in the third-world areas of Africa and Asia are not blogging.
This purports to be a map showing links to and from one blog to another. The big white blob in the middle is The Daily Kos, a liberal political blog that gets 500,000 visitors a day and is linked to in great numbers.
A different map than one that just represented every blog in some artificial form.
My blog is just a satilite slowly degrading in orbit around the blogosphere. It may one day burn up just like the fire tower did just a few months ago.
Technorati ranks me at somewhere between 250,000 to 300,000 out of, oh, 50 million blogs. Even a little bit of traffic can move a blog up a list by thousands. Kos, BoingBoing, Endagdet, they receive hundreds of thousands of hits daily and thousands more click-throughs and links.
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Hmm...I always wonder about the value of these sorts of visualizations. Seems like there's too many things that make the representation fall short or simply misrepresent what's going on.
Very often you'll see this sort of thing on music websites where music wonks think they've "mapped out" all music like some enormous molocule.
I can see it looking like a big mess given that, with Myspace, the built-in blogging components of Flickr and other similar applications, there are hundreds of millions of blogs. When I see a map of hits to a popular blog, it looks like a big belt around the earth; a lot of folks in the third-world areas of Africa and Asia are not blogging.
This purports to be a map showing links to and from one blog to another. The big white blob in the middle is The Daily Kos, a liberal political blog that gets 500,000 visitors a day and is linked to in great numbers.
A different map than one that just represented every blog in some artificial form.
That's important context. My blog would appear to be couple of strands of blue dental floss loose in the Midwest.
And you're probably in the upper 25% of readership among all blogs, everywhere.
My blog is just a satilite slowly degrading in orbit around the blogosphere. It may one day burn up just like the fire tower did just a few months ago.
Technorati ranks me at somewhere between 250,000 to 300,000 out of, oh, 50 million blogs. Even a little bit of traffic can move a blog up a list by thousands. Kos, BoingBoing, Endagdet, they receive hundreds of thousands of hits daily and thousands more click-throughs and links.
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