Comments on: Linkology

Linkology

ChasFile — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:56:26 -0800

Linkology is a neat little graphic that shows how the top 50 blogs link to one another. Direct to the pdf.

By: ChasFile

ChasFile — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:00:12 -0800

Part of my never-ending shouting-at-the-rain quest to get MeFi to recognize that there are magazines on this planet other than the New Yorker. This should represent an easy first step, I think, because it has 'New York' in the title. Plus, a cool little graph. OTOH, single-link crap. I post, you decide.

By: empath

empath — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:06:45 -0800

It's a neat idea, but the graph is completely uninformative.

By: empath

empath — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:09:34 -0800

This paper has some much more interesting graphs that really illustrate extensive crosslinking on the left and rights sides of the blogosphere.

By: uni verse

uni verse — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:15:30 -0800

Beautiful and informative *he said through tightly clenched teeth*. Worth doing. Now lets see it in 3D please.

By: pruner

pruner — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:40:45 -0800

the article that accompanied the graphic in the print issue of New York was pretty good, but I can't seem to find it on the site

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:07:39 -0800

Circlejerkology. It's called the blogosphere because it's small, self-contained, and isolar*. *isolar is a new word I coined; a portmanteau of isolated and insular. You can read all about it in my blahhhhhg...

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:08:02 -0800

Atypically for Ben Fry, that graphic says just about nothing.

By: icosahedral

icosahedral — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:31:03 -0800

Shall we play a game? Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War. Wouldn't you perfer a nice game of chess? Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War. Fine.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:43:49 -0800

It's a fairly silly graphic; why represent what is naturally a web in a flat line? Also, it is very odd that they included sites not written in English, as half the article and half the graph is therefore irrelevant to 99% of its readers. And finally, why only include links 'within the last 90 days'? Age of links is only really important to Google, in which case the older the better.

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:52:56 -0800

The 28th most-linked-to blog on the net is "of one pensive-looking Japanese boy with photos that highlight his 6-pack and pecs"? Wha? I don't really care to go find out what that's about. Does anyone have a clue?

By: mullacc

mullacc — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:58:32 -0800

51. Metafiler In English.

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:59:03 -0800

Also, the watchdog site for LittleGreenFootballs is lgf.blogspot.com, huh? Is it like an impressionist watchdog site or something? Or do you think they meant this one? We read the New Yorker 'cause they have editors, apparently.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:59:16 -0800

52. Metafilter Also in Engllish.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:59:37 -0800

please hope me

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:05:57 -0800

The line representation is a pretty clear sign that NYMag does NOT get what teh intarnets are at all. This should be all springy and reactive. And I have to download the PDF to actually be able to read it? What is this? 2002?

By: spiderwire

spiderwire — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:08:27 -0800

Metafiler: This should be all springy and reactive

By: peacay

peacay — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:06:01 -0800

Not only does it not particularly convey much information visually, it seems a bit unlikely that Kottke went for a 3 month period without linking to anyone (or vice versa). This piece came from a lazy editorial meeting. "Filler article people who's got an idea?"

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:32:31 -0800

Well, they do say right on the page that the data is derived from Technorati. And, all due respect, but we all know what that's worth.

By: uni verse

uni verse — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:33:53 -0800

*in condescending tone* In my opinon, the web itself is isolar, and uninformative, except for metafilter, and other codified locales.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:09:43 -0800

*fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap*