Mapping the Philippine Blogosphere

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief October 27, 2005 · 1 min read

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From one of Dean Jorge Bacobo’s (Philippine Commentary) entry about “Visual Maps of the Filipino Blogosphere” is the TouchGraph Google Browser.

TouchGraph is an interactive tool for visualizing the local topology or structure of a network by showing how various websites are interconnected together starting at a URL address that the user selects. DJB adds “The graph above is actually a highly detailed map whose static and dynamic features are best appreciated live. You can switch center of the universe focus and watch as TouchGraph rearranges everything in a dance of planets kind of ballet as the linked websites fall into graphical orbit. Bloghopping was never like this!”. And I agree with him a 100% on this!

I think the best place to start the Visual Maps would be PinoyBlog.com (DJB uses PCIJ but I think it’s politically biased hehehe). With close to 2,300 member blogs, you can clearly see where’s who in the Pinoy blogosphere.

Go and check out Dean Jorge Bacobo’s earlier post here and another related article “19 Clicks Is The Diameter of the Blogosphere“.

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18 Comments

Edward · 18 years ago

kuya, i added a link to your site. can you link me 2, even just for a month.

dukes-story . blospot . com

tas meron pa 2ng about WOMEN:

dukes-getthegirl . blogspot . com

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

Yup, it’s having problems with Firefox (freezes all the time). Looks like sa IE lang gumagana.

peter · 21 years ago

Same here.. I’m having problems on IE, doesn’t show up. Tried in firefox and it hanged. Anyway, I’ll try it on Safari.

Migs · 21 years ago

The Touchgraph site – a Java applet? – locks up Firefox and drives its CPU utilization to 75%. I’ll try this at home if it’s any better.

For a related project – Vizster for Friendster and social networks. May be more relevant since there are probably more Pinoys on Friendster than on blogs.

The Ca t · 21 years ago

yugz,
kindly check your e-mail.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 21 years ago

DJB, yes, been staring at that constellation all night. hehe..

I wonder though if we could count or even close approximate the total number of pinoy bloggers using this map. :D

About the “no blog” is an island. It is possible though that a person would create a blogspot account for personal use — does not link out to other blogs and no other blogs linking in. But I guess they’re a very tiny minority. Well I have one such. :D

Thanks for the other tips as well. Enjoying it.

DJB · 21 years ago

Yuga, No Blog is an island! Neat thing about TG is you can choose any URL to put at the center of the local blogosphere. Don’t know if you’re a stargazer, but it reminds me of constellations. I did check out what the “sky” looks like with pinoyblog.com in focus…good imitation of some Hubble Telescope shots of SuperNova 1987A. Hope you played with the double click feature too which reveals more and more sites connected to the center. Also try dragging the central site around to find out how “stiffly” it is connected to its linkers and linkees. Because PinoyBlog is a site popularity thingy, it is only loosely linked to its many constellation partners. But try doing the same drag expt on a site like PDI or PhilStar in the demagagosphere, and you get a “tighter” feel to their interconnection.