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 adalah alat interaktif untuk memvisualisasikan topologi atau struktur lokal sebuah jaringan dengan menunjukkan bagaimana berbagai situs web saling terhubung mulai dari alamat URL yang dipilih pengguna. DJB menambahkan "Grafik di atas sebenarnya adalah peta yang sangat detail yang fitur statis dan dinamisnya paling baik dihargai secara langsung. Anda dapat mengubah pusat fokus alam semesta dan menyaksikan TouchGraph mengatur ulang semuanya dalam tarian planet seperti balet saat situs web yang terhubung jatuh ke orbit grafis. Bloghopping tidak pernah seperti ini!". Dan saya setuju dengannya 100% pada hal ini!

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.