Mapping the Blogosphere
Published Thursday, April 06, 2006 by CCAer | E-mail this post

Mapping the Internet is essentially the mapping of relationships. Though servers and ISPs may have a geographic location, it is the number of links or clicks between two sites that determines how “close” they are. Physical location hardly plays a role.
New York has a posting on the linkages of the top 50 blogs, including a diagram (hardly a map)
available in pdf format. Sadly but not surprisingly,
Cartography did not make the cut.
However,
TouchGraph provides a graphic interactive representation of a blog’s (or any other website’s) neighbourhood. Not surprisingly,
Cartography’s neighbours include
The Map Room,
GeoCarta and
Google Maps Mania. As with any neighbourhood, there are also a few surprises (what are all those z word definitions doing across the street?). The TouchGraph Java diagram seems a bit flaky: repeated visits seems to result in frozen pages.
By way of
information aesthetics and others.
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