Data Mining …

Everyone is familiar with the A-list perspective of the blogosphere: there are a handful of key individuals who wield much of the influence in terms of discussion, opinion, links and traffic. But what about the rest of us? How do we fit in? By taking the graph of the blogosphere and looking for groups of blogs which have strong links between them, we can shake out some of the communities that are either embedded in the core (the home of the A-listers) or which are loosely joined to, or completely separate from this central über-community.