Visualising the UK journalism-blogger network
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 21:52
As Robin Hamman points out, there are all sorts of personal connections between the journalists named in Press Gazette’s UK journalism blogroll feature today.
Because many of the bloggers named in the piece also use the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us, it is even possible to visualise these connections using the amazing (and addictive) Del.icio.us Network Explorer social network analysis tool.
The dark nodes in the network above are people named in connection with the Press Gazette piece. I’m the green dot in the middle (only because I started exporling the network with my own user name), and Robin Hamman is the orange one.
Jem Stone is the large node at the top with links to many of the others. The author of the Press Gazette feature, Graham Holliday is to Robin’s 10 o’clock position, and Richard Sambrook is at Robin’s 3 o’clock.
Further exploration of the network reveals some other important nodes in the network, whose involvment in the jounralism blogger community is largely centred on their del.icio.us use: Sun communities editor Ilana Fox and Trinity Mirror’s director of regional digital media, David Black. You should really be subscribing to their del.icio.us links’ RSS feeds.
Update: Ditto Alan Connor, Alistair Brown, and Bruce Combe.
On Flickr, you’ll find an annotated version of this:
Entry Filed under: BBC, Blogs, Flickr, Guardian Media Group, Guardian Unlimited, Journalism, Press Gazette, Social network analysis, Sun Online, Trinity Mirror, del.icio.us, del.icio.us Links
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1. cybersoc.com&hellip | 9 February 2007 at 1318
Uk Journalism Blogger delicious network analysis
2. noodlepie&hellip | 9 February 2007 at 1345
journalist’s blogs - that would look very different. Unfortuantely the Press Gazette does not have a web version of this…. grrrr…. However, ‘Content Editor’ Martin Stabe has all the links. Martin also has a fascinating, if baffling, graphic of relations between many of these folk, myself included. Three points related to this. Firstly, social bookmarking and the networking of social bookmarkers is one of the best ways, maybe the best way, I gather information on niche topics I’m interested in, mostly
3. Adrian Monck - News on th&hellip | 9 February 2007 at 2128
[IMG ]And now some news about us…as Sir Trev used to say. Martin Stabe has some fascinating 70s-style table decorations which show some of the connections between everyone in Press Gazette’s journo-bloggers list. It scares the hell out of me…and if you’re reading this, you’ll know the names.
4. Home — AMERICAN.COM: A&hellip | 12 February 2007 at 0516
[IMG ] Monday, February 12, 2007 Visualize your DNA. . . Remove greenhouse gases, win a prize. . . Visualize your social networks. . . China’s Olympian translation transformation. . . Visualize your intentions. . . * * * Friday, February 9, 2007 Why power corrupts. . . Perhaps income disparity isn’t growing. . .
5. David Black&hellip | 15 February 2007 at 2107
Martin Stabe » Visualising the UK journalism-blogger network
6. cybersoc.com&hellip | 27 February 2007 at 1201
Uk Journalism Blogger delicious network analysis
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