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

[jwgh]

It seems like a common progression in Livejournal is: person has friends (online or not) who use livejournal, person gets Livejournal account to make it easier to comment on other peoples' livejournals and read friends-only entries, person starts using Livejournal to blog, and the rest is history. The strong pull of step 2 may be an additional reason why Livejournal posts are mostly linked to by other Livejournal users, although there is a certain something about the 'crap' hypothesis that makes me reluctant to rule it out.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Also, LJs tend not to have "blogrolls" beyond the friends list, which discourages people outside the LJ garden from blogrolling them.