Linkology on the Blogosphere
Pranam Kolari, 1:00pm 15 February 2006NYMetro has a report on Linkology on the Blogosphere. This is based on Technorati’s index of over 27 million blogs.
To discover how they [blogs] 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.
Edge colors reflect topic of the link. A cursory examination suggests that political blogs (in blue) show a relatively higher tendency of interlinking, which brings us to an interesting question - Are inlinks (only) a good way of ranking A-Listers?
Over a period of time these inlink based ranks are bound to bias the A-List (the way we define it now) to Political blogs. This also reflects in Technorati Top 100 viewed in the Wayback machine (November 26, 2002, December 5, 2003, November 30, 2004, April 1, 2005, today), as linked by Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere: Part 2. It appears as though David Sifry is right on the mark when it comes to mining the “Magic Middle”.
NOTE: Niall Kennedy has made higher resolutions of Linkology accesible.
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