"Looking at the *newsroom* of bloggers:
Columbia grad student and smart person John Kelly is describing how his project does statistical analysis on bloggers and clustering/affinities and then links that with attentive clusters to understand information flow and movement within news organizations and the blogosphere--in 5 languages(!) Russian, Arabic, Persian, Scandinavian and English--He's describing the political bloggers in English on both sides, and looking at the values and Middle-East focused bloggers on the right, and then the inside the Beltway, feminist and African-American bloggers on the liberal side. Kelly's project is analyzing the semantic structure of tagging and who uses specific tags--and which tafs are *biased*--via "moonbats" and "wingnuts"; "Milblog" and Islamofascist."
"Unique as a snowflake the shape of each blogosphere has to do with different things."
Susan sez: I would love to get ah his data and see the actual studies; right now, there is so much information being shared it's going past as a set of showy card tricks.
Looking at how bloggers look out at other sites and links--a visual map--the clusters of outlinks and what is linked to--dominate relationships and clusters are revealed and you can see where the linking centers are--this data is great, but the talk is rolling over me a little, other twitters think there are too many small dots on the slides ("eye exam").
Susan sez: I wish John Kelly could tutor me in his stat magic; I love this kind of research. If I got to play, I'd ask him to see if he could build a predictive model of what is viral for specific segments. That floats my boat bigtime.
Finale: He mapped the bloggers and the org--but Miz Squinty here can't see a damn thing.
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