Matthew Hurst has been producing some really cool computer-generated maps of the interconnections in the blogosphere, and his latest image is a beauty. He’s centered it on DailyKos (the bright white dot in the center) and says that the dense area of interlinked sites below it represents the “socio/political community” while the less densely populated but also highly interlinked area in the northeast quadrant of the image represents the heart of the “technical blogosphere” with uber-blog BoingBoing as the brightest node there.
Hurst doesn’t give any details about his data, but what I find surprising about this picture is how much bigger the political wing of the blogosphere is compared to the techies. No matter, this one is going straight into my standing PowerPoint presentation!