New Map of the Blogsphere

[james_davis_nicoll]

Charting the network of jocks, gadget hounds, political junkies, and porn aficionados



1: Daily Kos, tough on BushCo, soft on death-threats against women (the little darlings).

2: Boingboing. Well, at least it isn't Aintitcool.

3: The lost souls of Livejournal, little-known and too self-absorbed to care. Oooo, a reflective surface!

4: Highly interconnected blogs. The bright dot is Michelle Malkin. Note that when I say "bright dot", the map is not the territory.

5: The pornoverse, almost as peripheral as LJ and if not self-absorbed, definitely focused.

6: The jocks, making their way through the blogosphere with that endearing squinched up expression, like a Neanderthal presented with a laptop.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It's a pity the Chris Clarke First They Kill Your Dog (http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/what_happened/) thing doesn't seem to have blipped the radar over at DK.

It's interesting that Clarke's reaction to the Sierra/Kos thing was this. (http://pandagon.net/2007/04/13/how-to-not-be-an-asshole-a-guide-for-men/) Isn't there a mental defect where internal modeling of another person's mental state leads to an emotional reaction to that state as though it was one's own? I wonder if having had a similar experience might not make one more vulnerable to this.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Don't know, but Clarke certainly seems to get it.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a mental defect where internal modeling of another person's mental state leads to an emotional reaction to that state as though it was one's own?

Yes, but it's correctible.