Blogviz is a flash driven visualization model for mapping the transmission and internal structure of top links across the blogosphere.
It explores the idea of meme propagation by assuming a parallel with the spreading of most cited URLs in daily weblog entries. Blogviz is currently a portrait of blogosphere’s topic activity during the first 64 days of 2005. Nevertheless, the model was developed to easily incorporate different timeframes. Blogviz will continue to expand in the future, to the possible point of including real-time data. The interface displays each topic as a diagonal line from the first appearance of the topic to the last, charting the time in which each blog posted about the topic. Blogviz collects blog information from blogpulse.com, blogdex.net and technorati.com. It was developed by Manuel Lima as a second year thesis of the Master of Fine Arts - Design and Technology (MFADT) program at Parsons School of Design
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