The Blogosphere Visualized

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The Blogosphere Visualized

Illustration: Matthew HurstLast year, Discover magazine has a very neat post on how Matthew Hurst of Data Mining figured out what blog linked to whom and made this nifty "map of the blogosphere": The blogosphere is the most explosive social network you’ll never see. Recent studies suggest that nearly 60 million blogs exist online, and about 175,000 more crop up daily (that’s about 2 every second). Even though the vast majority of blogs are either abandoned or isolated, many bloggers…

heads up: this is a pretty old post, it may be outdated.