Hi. We’re back. Sorry for the break but we’ve been off coding up lots of stuff. And of course, as with all software projects, things take longer than you think. But now we (Brad and Steve) are coming up for air and trying to get back to writing posts on a regular basis. No promises, however. 
Previously, we’ve mentioned our frustration with the problem of blog overload. Marc Hedlund’s discussion on “Tab bankruptcy” says it very well. So now, we’re ready to propose a candidate solution to this problem — some other alterntive to giving up:
We believe that you can decide what to ignore and what to pay attention to through visualizing a blog’s structure by making a map (graph) of its contents. We call this map a bscope.
Having a map gives you “bird’s eye view” helps decide what to do when faced with an overload of blogs in your rss feed reader. From that view, with the same information, the bird sees it differently.
How can that be applied to an RSS feed? Well, we see graphing as a part of the solution. Just like a map is only part of what you need to find your way.
What do we mean by this? Here’s a teaser for you. This is a sample graph of 100 blogs (based on a set from share my opml).
Hmmm…… “Curiouser and curiouser”
Next time we’ll talk about how to read a bscope and how we build them.
Back to coding more php….
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