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I built a Star Tree of blog resources at the end of 2002. That mini-directory is somewhat out of date already; it's always real work to maintain a directory (or taxonomy or whatever else organizational resource). It seems with all the energy going into the blog world that somebody out there might be interested in partnering with me to publish out maps of content about Blogs.
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Ramana Rao, the founder and CTO of Inxight is starting a quest to graphically map the current blogworld. He already runs a small sample visualization using a StarTree available at... [Read More]
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Wouldn’t it be useful to have some kind of tool which could mine the unstructured text of blogs and organize it in a Star Tree of some kind?
There are some attempts at providing this kind of organization from the MIT Media Lab and places like that.
The contemporary nature of blogs suggests search engines are not going to be useful for them, at least in their present form.
Posted by: Jan Theodore Galkowski | June 2, 2003 12:37 PM