Comments on: Blogocracy in America

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:10:12 +0000

Oh is that how it works! I’m not a native of Seattle, but I guess they must have lured me here because I am more than funny enough. Thanks David. Two, eh? Poor ol’ Seattle…

By: PZ Myers

PZ Myers — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:36:34 +0000

Hey, I’m a native of Seattle. They kicked me out because I wasn’t funny enough.

By: David Tiley

David Tiley — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:33:50 +0000

Damn Ms Ophelia, now you’ve set me a project.. http://www.defectiveyeti.com/ http://www.izzlepfaff.com/ And of course I can’t find any more. But I know they are out there! ps – in my small self-justifying search, I surely did see a lot of baby snaps.

By: Matt McIrvin

Matt McIrvin — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 00:41:30 +0000

The techblog explosion was in 1999. And many of the most popular post-Sept. 2001 politics blogs existed before then.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:25:07 +0000

“And why are there so many funny people in Seattle?” Are there? Who? Where? Can I have their phone numbers?

By: David Tiley

David Tiley — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:32:36 +0000

The “dark matter” of personal blogging is a lovely metaphor. To tangle the situation even more, I suggest the blogospheres behave differently in different cultures. Australian blogging has these strange indentations and mobius moments when staunch opponents cross over to sport, rock and roll or just tecchie stuff, and become endearingly co-operative. I suspect your Canadian neighbours have a distintive blogosphere – certainly its members do rear back and identify themselves culturally. The Brits remain a complete mystery to me. And why are there so many funny people in Seattle?

By: Martha Bridegam

Martha Bridegam — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 07:29:44 +0000

DeLong started a conversation in the same place a few days ago.

By: eszter

eszter — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 05:35:02 +0000

We’re using SNA (social network analysis) in the project I mentioned earlier. But we don’t have the kind of sample you’re talking about, ours is much smaller. Nonetheless, I think it will yield interesting results. We’ll keep you posted.

By: Jason Kuznicki

Jason Kuznicki — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:29:28 +0000

Blogshares is a rather poor way of judging a blog’s popularity. It’s not at all like the Iowa Electronic Markets or even like fantasy stock market games. In Blogshares, a single player can manipulate the value of a blog rather dramatically with just a few transactions, and the system barely corrects for it at all. Something like Blogshares would be fascinating, but as it stands, the game just isn’t what it ought to be.

By: Lance Boyle

Lance Boyle — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:01:50 +0000

Nowhere is the metaphor of the blind wiziers and the elephant more accurate. The meta-whatevers are a good place to begin maybe, of which CT is sort of one. But even that. It’s so big. It’s like generalizing about the American public – only possible in the broadest and simplest terms. This may be the most truly egalitarian public space we’re capable of without telepathic mind-meld. It’s precisely the non-cataloged open-ness that makes it so.

By: Dan Goodman

Dan Goodman — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 21:26:12 +0000

On LiveJournals: Please note that not all LiveJournals are personal. There are LiveJournal communities devoted to politics, synesthesia, etc.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 20:49:00 +0000

Funny, I just posted several quotations from Tocqueville at B&W a couple of days ago. But it wasn’t that one, so I can’t claim the prize. Oh, no prize? Okay, I can’t claim the glory then.

By: Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 20:17:33 +0000

All of this data should of course be correlated with the Blogshares price of the various blogs being studied. My loving co-blogger, Robb Schuneman, has seen his net worth increase by over 600,000% in the last month on Blogshares. He claims it’s a good way to find out about up and coming blogs. Perhaps some economics bloggers should take on this project.

By: First reaction

First reaction — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:50:59 +0000

Burp!