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2/13/2006

Haves and the Have-Nots of the blogosphere

From New York magazine, the “Haves and the Have-Nots” of the blogosphere.

Of most interest:

“There are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. To discover how they relate to one another, we’ve taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped their connections. Each arrow represents a hypertext link that was made sometime in the past 90 days. Think of those links as votes in an endless global popularity poll. Many blogs vote for each other: “blogrolling.” Some top-50 sites don’t have any links from the others shown here, usually because they are big in Japan, China, or Europe—regions still new to the phenomenon. ”

For the chart: http://newyorkmetro.com/news/media/15972/

3 Comments »

  1. […] I sent out the link to New York magazine’s article on Social Network Diagram of the Top 50 Bloggers to the Socnet mailing list, which generated a lot of interesting discussion. […]

    Pingback by The Virtual Handshake Blog | » Social Network Analysis of Blogosphere, part 2 — 2/15/2006 @ 10:45 pm

  2. How do you really know what the top 50 are?

    Comment by funny shirt guy — 3/15/2006 @ 1:31 pm

  3. This is truly amazing

    Comment by rroma — 3/15/2006 @ 11:37 pm

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