{"id":160,"date":"2003-01-02T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2018-03-31T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T05:27:10","slug":"blog-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Blog communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Mayfield writes about some nifty work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgnet.com\">Valdis Krebs<\/a> to map the network of relationships at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryze.com\">Ryze<\/a>, an online business networking group, and the weblog tribe on Ryze.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s some more analysis that would be really interesting:<br \/>\na) identify clusters of blogs &#8212; blogs that share a number of blogroll blogs in common (first filter out the most popular blogs).<br \/>\nb) use text analysis to identify the topics the clusters have in common by identifying words they use much more frequently than average.<br \/>\nThis would identify groups of New York bloggers, Java bloggers, warbloggers, etc. Groups wouldn&#8217;t be mutually exclusive; lots of people would belong to more than one cluster.<br \/>\nBlogrolling.com exports blogrolls in RSS and OPML format, so that might be a workable dataset. They have 6915 blogrolls with 108278 links.<br \/>\nThe math to do this is pretty far over my head &#8212; so this one goes out to the Lazyweb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Mayfield writes about some nifty work by Valdis Krebs to map the network of relationships at Ryze, an online business networking group, and the weblog tribe on Ryze. Here&#8217;s some more analysis that would be really interesting: a) identify clusters of blogs &#8212; blogs that share a number of blogroll blogs in common (first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog communities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-2A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}