Patterico's Pontifications

6/23/2008

Map of the Political Blogosphere

Filed under: Blogging Matters — Patterico @ 9:51 pm



If you want to get bloggers to link to something, talk about blogs. This is a site that purports to provide linking information about the 297 most influential political blogs. Apparently your circles are bigger if you are linked by more sites, and your position on the map (right or left) is dependent on the character of the sites that link you (the more uniquely conservative your links, the further right your positioning).

If I understand it right.

Here’s the pretty map, with this blog’s position:

patterico-in-political-blogosphere.JPG

Smack dab in the middle of the conservatives. Seems about right.

12 Responses to “Map of the Political Blogosphere”

  1. Heh. You’re to the right of Michelle and me.

    See-Dubya (d75aff)

  2. So left/right (varying the value on the ‘X’ axis) defines liberal/conservative. Got it.

    What is the ‘Y’ axis supposed to represent?

    (Bonus points for an answer that annoys Cyrus Sanai.)

    Drumwaster (8ad883)

  3. It looks like a fractal. Some really smart mathematician might be able to explain the significance of it.

    JVW (ce519b)

  4. Heh. You’re to the right of Michelle and me.

    Yeah, this thing is all messed up.

    Then again, she deals with a lot of lefties who link her to mock her — and the map doesn’t distinguish between that and links with approval.

    Patterico (cb443b)

  5. The graphic resembles a Mandelbrot set. As for the ‘Y’ axis, if you reference the Nolan Chart form of political compass, it measures the libertarian/populist value.

    Icy Truth (3ac258)

  6. OK, I’ll take your word for it. But I have a suspicion that it is a project brought home from pre-school and is now on the refrigerator.

    Pat Patterson (f44efe)

  7. Bactria on a petri dish.

    Perfect Sense (b6ec8c)

  8. More than a Mandelbrot, it looks like a piece of chewing gum that’s just been stepped on.

    sierra (cb14a5)

  9. According to this, Huffington and The Nation are as politically balanced as USAToday?

    Can you say worthless effort?

    harkin (f8877d)

  10. Funny how the Star Tribune, Reuters, CNN and the like get a yellow dot which I guess is supposed to mean it is a balanced news source. They are a little more fairer with the conservative blogs which causes the blogs to overlook the mischief.

    j curtis (c84b9e)

  11. Doesn’t it also look as though this site is smack dab in the middle of the State of Mississippi?

    nk (11c9c1)

  12. your position on the map (right or left) is dependent on the character of the sites that link you (the more uniquely conservative your links, the further right your positioning

    Do they determine whether the linking sites are conservative by their position on the map also? If so then the computer program would be stuck in an infinite loop.

    Gerald A (b9214e)


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