Comments on: Visualizing the Blog “Echo Chamber” http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4067 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:59:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Higgins http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4067/comment-page-1#comment-8071 Higgins Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:41:23 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4067#comment-8071 There's a good discussion of the nuances of this chart over at <a href="http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/02/parasitology_of.html">Table of Malcontents</a>. I think my post wasn't specific enough in what the chart discusses, and I implied that it said more than it did. The chart simply show interlinking among semi-major blogs, without any notion of the original source of the content (which would probably be the more interesting thing to learn about...). In this chart, the "source" of material is simply the instance of a story that's most cited, but as we well know, blogs commonly pass on content from each other. So I think this chart is showing how big blogs are echoing content among themselves...with no real visibility into where that content is coming from originally. ;Chris There’s a good discussion of the nuances of this chart over at Table of Malcontents.

I think my post wasn’t specific enough in what the chart discusses, and I implied that it said more than it did. The chart simply show interlinking among semi-major blogs, without any notion of the original source of the content (which would probably be the more interesting thing to learn about…). In this chart, the “source” of material is simply the instance of a story that’s most cited, but as we well know, blogs commonly pass on content from each other.

So I think this chart is showing how big blogs are echoing content among themselves…with no real visibility into where that content is coming from originally.

;Chris

]]> By: Higgins http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4067/comment-page-1#comment-7965 Higgins Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:42:56 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4067#comment-7965 Certainly the majority of content that appears on Boing Boing is via some other, smaller blog -- but the image appears to show that once a story makes it to Boing Boing, that instance of the story is picked up by many others in the cloud. The image does not show the original source of the blog content, which would probably tell a more interesting (and complex) story. Certainly the majority of content that appears on Boing Boing is via some other, smaller blog — but the image appears to show that once a story makes it to Boing Boing, that instance of the story is picked up by many others in the cloud.

The image does not show the original source of the blog content, which would probably tell a more interesting (and complex) story.

]]> By: Miss Cellania http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4067/comment-page-1#comment-7949 Miss Cellania Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:09:16 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4067#comment-7949 Except content doesn't start at the major blogs. It also flows UP. I often see a story or item at my usual sources for a couple days before it hits Boingboing, after which none of the second-tier linkblogs will touch it. They figure by the time it gets to Boingboing, everyone has seen it. Except content doesn’t start at the major blogs. It also flows UP. I often see a story or item at my usual sources for a couple days before it hits Boingboing, after which none of the second-tier linkblogs will touch it. They figure by the time it gets to Boingboing, everyone has seen it.

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