I recently saw a talk from Morningside Analytics, who have done lots of work in terms of "mapping" blogs along geographic and thematic lines. They have done quite a lot of work around blogs covering the US system, for example
http://morningside-analytics.com/ Just sprung to my mind Have a good day Steven 2009/6/12 Matt Wardman <[email protected]> > Can I float an idea? > > There's a lot of Geographical technology around in MySociety, and I > wonder whether anyone has considered doing a census of political (and > maybe other) blogs, to give an idea of what is where etc of the sites > out there? Could it be linked to partial Postcodes of location and > area of coverage? > > I'm not suggesting it as an official project, but possibly as a side > project if anyone is looking for one. > > I'd see a key benefit as helping people find local commentary, which > fits in with the "rebuilding grassroots" politics which most of us > support. > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > -- ==================== Steven Flower substance. 3rd Floor Fourways House 57 Hilton Street Manchester M1 2EJ skype/twitter:stevieflow 0161 244 5418 http://www.substance.coop
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