I was gonna write about something else (like how to read a bscope) but I had this idea/question…….

We’ve been working on getting these graphs finished and running when I looked at the wallpaper view of the top100 from a few weeks ago, and then at the current view of the same top100 and they are different!

Before	After

Yes, of course they are supposed to be different, because as each blog changes, so does its graph. But the colors are different. Why is there so much more green? Green nodes on a bscope represent incoming links to a blog from another website. So… over time more sites are linking to these blogs.

What conclusions do we draw from the two graphs? We, B and S, are studying the two and scratching our heads (no wonder there’s no hair left) and we’re thinking…….. not only will the shapes of the bscope change with new posts, but the colors and interconnections will change as well.

The ability to see the entire set of blogs (call it a bspace?) or even multiple bspaces lets you ask the question of what is changing in the blogosphere. This is the kind of question that a birds-eye-view causes that just can’t be seen when using a traditional text blog reader.

That’s because you can’t cut through the clutter of the text.

More work to do!

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