Guilhem Fouetillou left a comment pointing to Presidential Watch 08 - a site created by Linkfluence. This is another site tracking the US presidential election campaign from the point of view of the blogosphere. However, I believe that they have put plenty of effort in to the design of the data visualization and the overall look and feel to really make the site stand apart from others in this space.
The site presents a map of the political blogosphere, similar to the original work of Adamic and Glance.
Data-wise, this is pretty standard fair, however the implementation of the network is very nicely done. One can switch from the above rendering to the more interesting fish-eye version.
The map shows the relationships between blogs of a certain leaning (Progressive, Independent, Conservative) and mass media web sites.
In addition, there is a trending area which shows blog and news citation trends for the candidates.
Linkfluence, in their own words:
Established in 2007, Linkfluence, Inc, is the US affiliate of RTGI, a cutting-edge French social media measurement company.
Linkfkluence is an innovative start up developing a full set of digital tracking, monitoring and analytics solutions for the social web : blogs, discussion boards, wikis, social networks, search engines, mainstream media’s online presence and their community spaces.
We just announced our predictions for the Iowa caucus based upon share of voice of each candidate in the democrat and republicain blogosphere, you can find the results here : http://presidentialwatch08.com/index.php/2008/01/03/iowa-caucus-huckabee-and-clinton-dominating-the-political-web/
Posted by: Guilhem Fouetillou | January 03, 2008 at 06:32 PM