Map of Political Blogosphere- June 2008

Presidential Watch 2008- Map of Influence
Gateway Pundit is here:

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You can check out the map HERE.

The Presidential Watch ’08 Map was released yesterday:

The PresidentialWatch08 map is composed of the 297 most visible and influential websites and blogs – out of a complete dataset of over 2000 sites – using Linkfluence™’s proprietary crawl technology.

The map includes both social media and mainstream media outlets. The sites are divided into four different categories, or communities (manually labelled):

• Conservative
• Independent
• Mass Media
• Progressive

In terms of methodology, we initiated the process by focusing on a set of a few hundred websites and blogs well-recognized by search engines and other sites related to US politics. Then, we collected the URLs of all sites located just one click away from our initial set – which amounted to tens of thousands of websites.
Why was this step important? Because when it comes to networks – and the web is one giant network – there’s a rule that says that what’s similar to a given node in terms of content will stand close to this node in terms of location. Working with a set of websites large enough, one can collect all the other important websites dealing with the same topics using the “one click removed” idea.

Thanks to a series of metrics, both topology-related (i.e. how many sites link to a particular site) and semantics-related (i.e. are the words used of political nature), we were able to single out over 2,000 websites that constitute the core of the US political webosphere. From these, we extracted the most link-relevant 297 sites.

Here’s another view:

Cool, huh?

Karl explains that Linkfluence’s proprietary crawl technology was used in the mapping.

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Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016. In 2023, The Gateway Pundit received the Most Trusted Print Media Award at the American Liberty Awards.

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