Where is LGF?

that is really cool

Godfrey Zillabong!

That is SOME influence!

Pretty nifty. Looks almost fractal.

This is the Ptolemaic map of the blogosphere obviously...

Jackson Pollack?

Where are the globular clusters?

Gawd, what are they loading on there? The entire Internets?

BHO's site is just left of the center?! AP's is in the center?!

I wonder which bot this was.

The blogosphere is flat and LGF is the center!

And there's LGF- in te middle of it all- as I would expect.

Interesting to see who's on the fringes, and I see some of our other friends in the mix too. Way to go, lawhawk!

re: #10 MandyManners

BHO's site is just left of the center?! AP's is in the center?!

I guess mybarackobama.com has become "very influential" given all the links to it from LGF threads, huh?

we are the borg . . .

all will be assimilated . . .

resistance is futile . . .

Found it, no way to share I guess, vertical center, horizontal a little to the right, red of course, large dot, with a zillion links, pretty good seats, actually.

You spilled Science all over my laptop screen, and it looks PRETTY...

Seriously though, seeing networks mapped out like this gives a taste of just how complex human interaction really is.

More proof of evolution as we mind-meld on the web! ;-)

All your blog are belong to us.

That's a pretty interesting way to show the connections between blogs. Definitely something to use going forward for tracking purposes to see how blogs gain influence.

re: #23 Syrah

All your blog are belong to us.

Plus we got Jerry Ryan.

re: #18 taxfreekiller

the first blog big bang

In The Beginning, there was DARPA...And DARPA created the Servers and the Cables and said 'Let there be Internets.'

And there was Internets.

And DARPA looked upon what it had made and found it Good.

Ugh. Jared Polis advertises on Firedoglake. Colorado needs to know that he is a huge left-winger.

re: #23 Syrah

All your blog are belong to us.

I saw the bumper sticker of that translation the other day.
Man, hadn't seen one in years. Always a giggle.

Well, just completed my first wireless backup to an NTFS share using Time Machine. Worked great.

Our node seems very large!

re: #25 lawhawk

You're right in there in the mix too!

/Excuse me- I'm still chuckling at bj being way out on the fringe.

that's beautiful. i like all those primary colors and the periwinkle inside a few of the yellow circles .

re: #22 quickjustice

If the current shape of the internet is any indication, we are steadily devolving, our brains atrophied on a steady diet of Lolcats and Fark

I'm not sure this takes into account the fact that The Villiage Voice says we're 50% more evil.

re: #36 Roentgen

I'm not sure this takes into account the fact that The Villiage Voice says we're 50% more evil.

Only 50%? Damn, we've got to try harder.

What I noticed:

wsj.com is painted reddish.... indicating a conservative "infopit".

www.iht.com is painted yellow... indicating a plain old "infopit".

Something tells me that the decision to color sources is... well, colored....

re: #37 jcm

We've got a job to do.

Looks like an amoeba in a gay pride parade. Here's a straight one.

[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]

this is a must read, the new york slime should be treated like the ANTI SEMITIC RAG IT IS. the wobblies had the black cat we yidden and friends should unleash the 'schawartz a katz' total disrespect towards the new york slime.

re: #37 jcm

Only 50%? Damn, we've got to try harder.

re: #32 snowcrash

Our node seems very large!

You mean like Barbara Streisand large?

(oh, you said "node"...)

There was a "game" in the older versions of Damn Small Linux that created a 3D space visualization of the OS as a constellation resembling stars and planets that you could fly around in.

It looked a lot the image above.

Hey, assuming this was done by bots mining the site, can we get our spot on the plot to move? Everybody: post "Love Obama" 10 times in a comment right now, after which we'll recheck the plot.

Zombietime is between Hewitt and Powerline.

re: #32 snowcrash

that ain't a node.... that's a banana....

(apologies to Jimmy Durante)

Proof positive that we are devolving to the primordial slime whence we sprang! (And you thought being descended from monkeys was bad!) ;-)

I dont think it's position as much as inbound links? maybe.

Lawhawk is in there.

It's a very impressive confusogram at first glance.

Interesting too to look at the color of the links as well as the end points. E.g., the relationship of brussels journal to LGF vs VDH to LGF.

Some blogs have almost all outgoing links, and of course most major news sites have mostly inbound links. LGF appears to have a few more inbound links than many political blogs.

re: #51 Syrah

I am? I can't seem to get the search feature operating. I can browse, but not search... could be a function of slowness..

Thanks for the heads up. Where should I be looking?

I've found Opinionjournal and Volokh. Firedoglake is a huge blue zit. They must count the number and vulgarity of the obscenities to assign blue colors and sizes.

re: #54 lawhawk
I saw you right of center, a little south of center.

What is WCBS TV doing way out there to the lower right?

i think i saw that print on a polyester '70's shirt in an antique clothing store.

Left, right or center, we are all interconnected in a cosmic web, dude.

re: #41 yochanan

If only all the Jews in the New York metro area would boycott the Times!
And how much does the unremitting propaganda delude them?

re: #54 lawhawk

Just found it. Pretty neat.

It's Little Green Footballs all the way down!

ronpaul! south by south/ southeast, fouth dot.....Waaayyy out of the main flow!

I think that is a Jackson Pollack.

re: #54 lawhawk

I was just poking around.

Look in the Redish region ;.D

By Wizbang.

Look East south east from wizbang.

Where's Kos? Is there a seach function?

I loaded the page and then scrolled over the dots and as soon as my cursor stopped it hit LGF. Is that sign?

How long should this take to load?

Hi all,
Awesome map. I found it too, it it right next to Michelle Malkin, To the right of it. Cemter of the map, just in to the right. It is a pink spot. If you click in the area ans then scroll in w/ mouse wheel, it zooms in.

Mine is still loading, about 5 minutes now Should I just start over?

I see when littlegreenfootballs.com is selected, that the left column shows

Category: Conservative Infopit
Authority Degree: 655
Xeno Degree: 93

I grok the Infopit, but what are the other thingys?

Daily Kos is on the far left side of this image ?

re: #69 swamprat

Where's Kos? Is there a seach function?

Search thingy is at upper left area, but it's small.
KOS is a rather big blue dot (with yellow surround) a little left of center.

Looking around on the left side, I ran across the burnt orange report,
([Link: www.burntorangereport.com...] which notes the sharp rise in applications for concealed gun permits in Texas, and draws a strange conclusion about it: Apparently people are scared, so they're getting concealed carry permits. Who's at fault?
"So much for the Republicans making us feel safe while leading the state."

Gee, LGF is the nucleus of a big, hairy amoeba.......maybe it's the big amoeba in that Star Trek episode, where it was eating the galaxy......Spock, are you in there?

re: #77 jaunte

Looking around on the left side, I ran across the burnt orange report,
([Link: www.burntorangereport.com...] which notes the sharp rise in applications for concealed gun permits in Texas, and draws a strange conclusion about it: Apparently people are scared, so they're getting concealed carry permits. Who's at fault?
"So much for the Republicans making us feel safe while leading the state."

I get a bad link.

Same reason gun show attendance is high, and purchases are high. Folks are getting licensed and stocked up in case worst happens in a BHO admin. It's one thing to restrict new licenses and purchases. It's quite another to confiscate legally held firearms and license already in the hands of citizens.

For that very reason I'm making a number of purchases.

re: #77 jaunte

Found the link...

It's also a stunning example of graphic design. Infographics to be specific. Wonderfully elegant. Gorgeous really.

re: #79 jcm

Maybe this one will work:
[Link: www.burntorangereport.com...]
Yes, I'm with you on that, for the same reasons. I talked with some of the
people at Carter's Country and Academy sports, and they say that sales are way up over last year because of the BHO possibility.

re: #82 jaunte

Maybe this one will work:
[Link: www.burntorangereport.com...]
Yes, I'm with you on that, for the same reasons. I talked with some of the
people at Carter's Country and Academy sports, and they say that sales are way up over last year because of the BHO possibility.

I don't think it's a fear of armed conflict. Just that with BHO and a (D) congress, firearms restrictions are almost certain. Regardless of the SCOTUS decision on the DC case (looks like it will be out Wed.), new laws will be enacted, and license and certain classes of weapons will be restricted. It will then take time to test the new laws in court, meanwhile the laws will stand.

re: #38 freetoken

What I noticed:

wsj.com is painted reddish.... indicating a conservative "infopit".

www.iht.com is painted yellow... indicating a plain old "infopit".

Something tells me that the decision to color sources is... well, colored....

I noticed the same thing.

Most of the news sites are colored yellow (...and fitting when you think of the yellow journalism that is put forth as 'truth-ish') for 'infopit'. Its widely known that most journalists have a heavy leftward tilt as do their publications.

re: #46 HelloDare

Zombietime is between Hewitt and Powerline.

Funny, that's where I am when not on LGF :-)

If you run the magnification slider (near top left) about halfway to the right (or more) all the sites appear to get labeled with their URLs. Then with mouse you can navigate by grabbing and dragging.

Look what Al Gore did.

Oh this is classy. Andrew Sullivan is listed as one of the "conservative" in the mapping. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that guy took a HUGE left several years back.

As noted already, the site has some serious problems in deriving utility from the linkification factor, versus the political "tone" of the listed sites. While it's a cute toy, it's not very informative. The "discoverthenetworks" site's toy is less pretty, but far more informative.
The most significant problem in both, however, is the reliance on a Left-versus-Right "spectrum." It's too damn misleading.

{ Assume the usual emoticons. I'm harmless. }

re: #45 Roentgen

Hey, assuming this was done by bots mining the site, can we get our spot on the plot to move? Everybody: post "Love Obama" 10 times in a comment right now, after which we'll recheck the plot.

Why should I bother to type "Love Obama?" Should we actually Love Obama? If so, I would Love Obama even more if I knew more about this Obama I'm supposedly Loving. Perhaps I need to Change my outlook to Love Obama. I do Hope that Change is possible, but not the Change that Obama Hopes will take place. I would certainly Love Obama more if he would Change some of his leftist policies, but there seems to be little Hope for that.

I suppose I will simply be left with my Audacity to Hope that Obama can Change so I can Love him more.

What a brilliant site to play around in!
Thanks, thats just soooo cool!

(Will spend a lot of time on this ...)
((Of course, only when there's nothing happening at LGF!))

To Love Obama or not to Love Obama,

That is the Love Obama Question.

Whether tis nobler to have once to Love Obama or Love Obama Girl, whether the righteousness of his deeds will make you Love Obama more for the possibility of change, there is a time and a place to Love Obama.

Now is not the time to Love Obama.

When is the corrent time to Love Obama?

When all the handwritten signs have gone home, when there is no material with the words Love Obama left.

Do I Love Obama?

Heck no.

/Banner Bunny (no relation to Hulk Bunny)

I found a way to reveal certain of the hidden features. Here's my take on it anyway... :-)

[Link: www.damaverick.com...]

There's a search function for sites to the left of the map, so you don't have to mouse your way 'round.

Other notes:
#38, 84: While iht is yellow, nytimes is a liberal infopit, as is the latimes.

#88: andrewsullivan.com is listed as conservative,
BUT
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com is liberal,
(which is close to historical).

Generally: typing "I love Obama" won't change anything; it's really more a function of the incoming and outgoing links.

LGF is closely flanked by The Anchoress and SisterToldjah, hah, all your scienceguys is blongs t'us ;)

Where is Kos on that? Looking, looking, looking...

Just curious.

To be honest, I dont even know what the image tells us. Can anyone enlighten me please?

Plus we got Jerry Ryan.

Yeah, thanks to her we have Obama....

What I noticed:

wsj.com is painted reddish.... indicating a conservative "infopit".

www.iht.com is painted yellow... indicating a plain old "infopit".

Something tells me that the decision to color sources is... well, colored....

Especially since NPR and TNR are yellow as well. But they do have Newsweek and the LAT as light blue.

My God, it's full of stars.

Thought this was interesting about where this site is located

Hostname presidentialwatch08.com
Country France
City Roubaix Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais
IP Address 91.121.8.66

Nothing about the site being in France except this [Link: linkfluence.net...]
Just interesting