"The Blogosphere” is a term describing the collective relationship based on the interconnections of blogs existing together, part of a larger community.
The result can be quite stunning, though it has little to do with design at all, but based purely in data of cyberspace.
Matthew Hurst, a scientist at Microsoft's Live Labs and co-creator of
Blogpulse, a blog search engine, used data from Blogpulse to render these images.
"Each one represents the “blogosphere” and was designed to show the relationships between weblogs. Within the maps, each “node” represents a weblog and the links between them represent the existence of citations e.g. where A cites B and B cites A – there is a reciprocal link. The maps are then laid out by inspecting the reciprocal links within the graphs and adding in those nodes (blogs) that are linked close to each other."
Read the full article at the Creative Review BlogMatthew Hurst's website
