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blog mapping

Blogmapping. Ross has three good posts about a social network mapping project he's doing jointly with Valdis Krebs. By now surely my readers have all heard about it - he got blogged to death. Two more thoughts: some people link more consistently to others, which indicates closer relationships. The strength of ties could be reflected in the visualization, perhaps using node proximity or thickness of lines. And a better blog map might be built out of the blogging ecosystem dataset, which I believe is available for download. [Seb's Open Research] 

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BBCi monopoly?

The BBC's virtual monopoly must end (must it?). Is the BBCi website far too big and monopolistic? Editorial from 'The Guardian' discussing whether the BBC's website, funded by the British license fee is taking the thunder away from commercial websites worldwide trying to achieve the same results in advertising run market place. There is some logic to the argument -- when e-marketing revenues are dwingling how can some sites compete with this bohemoth? On the other hand, if they were achieving the same results people would be going to them instead, and the BBC's website is very, very good in some places, indispensible in others. [MetaFilter] 

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