Welcome to the blogosphere (map)

Recent studies show that nearly 60 million blogs
there are networks, about 175,000 new blogs appear daily (about two blogs per second).

There are a large number of abandoned blogs that are not of interest, while active and frequently updated blogs, exiled with other resources, have been the subject of serious research, they allow specialists to track trends in blogs and identify the most popular topics of the blogosphere.

Media expert Matthew Hurst recently prepared a map of the most active and interrelated parts of the blogosphere from the collected data of blogospheric references for six weeks.
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1. The peak of popularity

Nearly 500,000 people attend <a
href = " dailykos.com " target = "_ blank"> DailyKos every day, which makes it one of the most popular blogs in the world. Links from DailyKos are a guaranteed way to drive traffic (and, therefore, advertising revenue).

2. Gossip about gadgets

A bright spot here is the popular site <a
href = " boingboing.net " target = "_ blank"> Boingboing, "Handbook of beautiful things" , which, oddly enough, just offers good links to online news, and also spreads gossip about gadgets and high technologies.

3. Show me your friends

This is a separate, closely related community of bloggers <a
href = " www.livejournal.com " target = "_ blank"> of LiveJournal, positioned as the largest social network.

4. I will show you the source ...

This blue ball represents a socio-political theme. The predominance of blue in this area shows that most of these connections are reciprocal, that is, a kind of metadialogues between bloggers who link each other with links. The white spot belongs to the browser <a
href = " www.michellemalkin.com " target = "_ blank"> Michelle Malkin.

5. Strawberry

These are the distant blue islands of bloggers who post the latest news and gossip from the world of pornography (often involved in selling it). Oh yes, and famous photos.

6. Singles

A group of enthusiasts who link to the central hot spot in the blogosphere.

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