One of the many uses for Bscopes is the discovery of what we call ‘Conversations’. Our use of the word is more similar to the way Technorati uses the phrase, than to the way that TechCrunch uses it. (Feel free to agree or disagree and add your own comments to this post. We could use a good flamewar over definitions… we haven’t had one since comp.lang.* got overrun by trolls).
We think of a blog conversation as multiple authors writing about the same topic, referring to each other by hypertext links in their posts. A while back, Jeremy Zawodny complained about having difficulty tracking these kind of conversations through the Blogosphere. It has not been easy.
Now, Bscopes can help discover conversations. A Bspace graph shows visually what can be difficult to see through the clutter of the text of the posts. The goal of a Bspace is to give you a birds-eye view of a part of the Blogosphere.
The Bspace below is a great example. I have three blogs tagged with ‘Leadership’:
This Bspace clearly shows that two blogs cross-referencing each other, while the third is entirely separate. I had not been aware of this before. In fact, it was invisible to me until I created this Bspace.
Time now to start our own meta-conversation on the topic of conversations. Write a post and link to this one. (We’ll certainly graph that). Or leave a comment on this post. Or both. Or neither.
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