Matthew Hurst of Nielsen BuzzMetrics created this map of some thousand or so of the web's most popular blogs It's one of several maps of the internets featured in an article from this week's Chronicle of Higher Education. About this image:

The size of the circles on Mr. Hurst’s map indicates the numbers of links to the blogs. The colors of the circles show the type of blog software used or on what kind of server the sites are hosted, telling technology-oriented researchers the more popular servers and software. The map indicates that the most linked-to blogs focus on technology and social-political commentary.

Link (hides behind a paywall in about a week). The map's designer, Matthew Hurst, has launched an internet-map gallery on his blog where he'll post more like that: Link. Here's a neat one of the LiveJournal-o-sphere: Link.

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