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

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to see LJ way out on the edge. Journaling for one's friends and a few random passersby is not, IMO, the same as blogging; I don't know many serious bloggers who use LJ for that purpose. And I know a lot of people who have both an LJ and a "real" blog (elsewhere).

Sometimes being an outlier can be a happy thing.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Agree. "Blog" is defined too widely in this case. LJ seems more like a series of personalzines than a frequently updated commentary.

Still, I'm amused that LJ is noted and MySpace isn't.