Personal Democracy Forum 2008

HAVE COMBINED ANTHONY & MATTHEW Because of day-of-event changes in schedule the chronology on ConFab doesn't work!


anthony hamelle
linkfluence - http://linkfluence.net/
visualizing the political blogosphere

measuring influence - measured by inbound links "like minded" websites

anthony has characterized mememorandum as RED (ie, "conservative"). huh?
could it be because they have labeld libertarian/technology blogs as 'red'? could it be the ronPaul syndrome? I don't think of memeorandum as anything but an aggregator.

this is not unlike blogpulse

developed president watch, that maps 533 websites talking about the presidential race
See diagram here: http://presidentialwatch08.com/



matthew hurst
microsoft labs

site http://datamining.typepad.com/

content - time - location

measuring reciprocal links

data clustering

In Matthew's model: blue is livejournal and red is blogspot


Tweets from the session:

good data visualization session ... for folks who like that. (count me in). matthew is showing how tech/political blogs interact.

matthew: blog attention on hillary/obama switched in january, ahead of other polling

now looking at oil from barrel cost to record profits and now on offshore drilling - shows trends in terms and mentions

VERY good illustrations



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