Comments on: Where is the Blogosphere? http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-225114 Michael Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:36:46 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/#comment-225114 @Jeremy and Anne: surely that same company would pay as much to really lock the blogosphere up in Jeremy's basement? @Jeremy and Anne: surely that same company would pay as much to really lock the blogosphere up in Jeremy’s basement?

]]> By: Anne Helmond http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-225109 Anne Helmond Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:25:41 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/#comment-225109 @Jeremy: 100 billion dollars? There is only one company that can release the blogosphere! @Lorelle: That´s a great collection of web visualizations. I recently came across an attempt to visualize <a href="http://thewholeinternet.wordtothewise.com/" rel="nofollow">the <strong>whole</strong> internet</a>. It is also a great example of the complexity of datasets when you are dealing with 4,294,967,296 IP addresses. Even when some visualizations do not necessarily clarify the data and/or its connections they do stimulate us to think about the data in a different way. Matthew Hurst’s visualizations of the blogosphere for example really depict the blogosphere as a sphere in an almost mathematical sense. That is really amazing. @Jeremy: 100 billion dollars? There is only one company that can release the blogosphere!

@Lorelle: That´s a great collection of web visualizations. I recently came across an attempt to visualize the whole internet. It is also a great example of the complexity of datasets when you are dealing with 4,294,967,296 IP addresses.

Even when some visualizations do not necessarily clarify the data and/or its connections they do stimulate us to think about the data in a different way. Matthew Hurst’s visualizations of the blogosphere for example really depict the blogosphere as a sphere in an almost mathematical sense. That is really amazing.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-224949 Lorelle VanFossen Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:14:40 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/#comment-224949 A few years ago, I wrote an article on <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/11/25/can-you-visualize-the-web/" title="Can You Visualize the Web?" rel="nofollow">how to visualize the web</a> and I found a sense of the interconnections you mention better than I could by visualizing the blogosphere, though it is as much a part of the interconnections of the web - in fact, more so. Blogrolls, links, reviews, commentaries, blockquotes, resource lists, link lists, all are part of the strands that connect one site to another to form the original concept of the "Web". "Seeing" it is a bit harder, but the mathematical and artistic graphics I found in my research gave me pictures that I could hold in my head that helped to paint the concept of that web in modern terms. Fascinating subject. A few years ago, I wrote an article on how to visualize the web and I found a sense of the interconnections you mention better than I could by visualizing the blogosphere, though it is as much a part of the interconnections of the web – in fact, more so.

Blogrolls, links, reviews, commentaries, blockquotes, resource lists, link lists, all are part of the strands that connect one site to another to form the original concept of the “Web”.

“Seeing” it is a bit harder, but the mathematical and artistic graphics I found in my research gave me pictures that I could hold in my head that helped to paint the concept of that web in modern terms. Fascinating subject.

]]> By: Jeremy Steele http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-224930 Jeremy Steele Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:10:23 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/22/where-is-the-blogosphere/#comment-224930 The blogosphere is in my basement... I am holding it hostage until I get paid 100 million dollars.... errr 100 billion dollars! ;) The blogosphere is in my basement… I am holding it hostage until I get paid 100 million dollars…. errr 100 billion dollars!

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