I've added a new image of the blogosphere to the gallery. It is repeated below. The image is a hyperbolic projection of a graph of the largest 8 partitions (connected components) - the data is a combination of that from WWE2006 and from our upcoming ICWSM2007. The visualization is centered on DailyKos. The highly connected area below centre is the socio/political community. Above and to the right is the heart of the technical blogosphere with BoingBoing being the brightest node.
Interesting. Snowball sample? Are these permalinks, links within posts, or both?
Posted by: Pete | January 03, 2007 at 09:19 AM
This is really beautiful. What are the outliers - the little sattelites around the edges? Are hosts like Blogger visible? Most importantly - how do I find musicthing.blogspot.com !
Posted by: Tom | January 04, 2007 at 09:20 AM
It looks just beautiful! Sublime! :-)
Posted by: rod. | January 04, 2007 at 06:39 PM
Very pretty. Although this time I won't have any idea what to annotate. ;-)
Posted by: Elia Diodati | January 05, 2007 at 01:23 AM
Elia, what I'd really like to do is provide some sort of annotations. Perhaps an api like Google Maps would be pretty cool allowing users to zoom in and see the labels on the blogs once a suitable resolution has been achieved.
Posted by: Matthew Hurst | January 05, 2007 at 06:40 AM
Any chance we can get some annotations on this? At least with some of the big stuff labeled?
Posted by: Anita | January 05, 2007 at 10:19 PM
What software aere you using for these visualizations? I've always wanted to do something with my delicious tags but don't know what to do with the XML file...
TIA for help from anybody.
Posted by: BG | January 07, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Anita,
I'd like to get something with annotations - I'll try to make that the feature in the next edition.
Posted by: Matthew Hurst | January 07, 2007 at 01:38 PM
BG
I use some home grown software for this. There are a number of freely available systems online. You might want to check out GUESS : http://graphexploration.cond.org/
Posted by: Matthew Hurst | January 07, 2007 at 01:40 PM
Thx. I'll check it out.
Posted by: BG | January 07, 2007 at 01:44 PM