Comments on: You should look at this

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:20:25 +0000

I agree. I’m fascinated by the blogosphere! I also sometimes hear people talk about the Internet as the ultimate maintainer of democracy. For example, in her April column in the Digital Journalist, Beverly Spicer wrote:

So far, nearly everything about the actual possibility-space which computers have created indicates they are the end of authority and not its beginning.” In other words–and I hear it said often–the Internet is going to save the world.

I think there’s truth in this. We all know that the rich are getting richer. But the rest of us have this very profound mechanism for connecting with each other.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:40:36 +0000

What a fascinating communication network. Just think of all the millions of thoughts and feelings that makeup this blogosphere.

By: lindsay

lindsay — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:05:12 +0000

It’s called the blogosphere, which I have always thought was interesting. Is it a sphere around the internet, if the internet is the equivalent of a planet? Or is it a layer of our intellectual atmosphere (although some parts are less than intellectual)?

When I first heard of the “blogosphere” I immediately thought of Gary Larsen’s Far Side cartoon of clowns floating in a circle around the Earth. The caption was, “The Bozone Layer.”

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:58:07 +0000

I wondered that, too.

I wondered what the lines represent really and why the map turned out to be curved like a planet.

It’s interesting, though, because the internet is a place - almost like a physical place. In some ways, it almost is like another planet.

By: eimster

eimster — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:39:27 +0000

It’s interesting to me that Matthew Hurst would (automatically? intentionally?) design his map look like planet Earth. Why? Why round? Is the only way we can imagine or translate something new by modeling after something we know?

By: deborahbyrd

deborahbyrd — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:07:14 +0000

Warren, thank you.

I think some people think I linked to this map of the blogosphere because it’s cool to have a map, but really I am interested in the shape of the blogosphere itself. As if it’s a physical place, because it might as well be …

By: warren cardinal

warren cardinal — Mon, 07 May 2007 01:56:30 +0000

You can also “walk” the web - starting at your site - at http://www.walk2web.com