Politicos are More Social than Designers
Technology Review ran an article about blogosphere and social network traffic visualizations which featured pretty and interesting pictures as well as insights into what’s worth measuring in social networks. (The full article isn’t yet available to non-subscribers in its full format.) The picture below visualizes a number of things including, apparently, the relative ego size/socialness of political junkies and designers.
The two regions are held together by popular blogs with ties to both subject areas. The size of the circle representing a given blog is proportional to the number of other blogs linked to it. Hurst notes an apparent difference in culture between the two regions: pink lines, which represent reciprocal links, are much denser among the political blogs than they are among blogs focused on technology.
This looks amazing.
This makes me want to resubscribe Technology Review just to get to this article. Their articles are a bit of a hit-or-miss for me though so I guess I’ll wait.
Meanwhile, I just noted this morning that you have been blogging a lot lately. I’ve move you up to my Daily feed.
Cheers,
SML
I’ve had the same experience . . . was bored of it for a few months and then got two killer issues. I will try to be worthy of an SML feed.