My Own Little Networks

Too bad it isn't labeled, but this site produces a graphic of your website and its connections around the web.

This is a picture of this blog.

Thanks to George Siemens and Yochai Benkler, I've really been delving into the idea of networks, their power, and their importance. Remote Access is a blog with about 100 subscribers and 150+ hits / day so it really isn't that huge. What would a much more important site look like?

One thing I notice when looking at the above graphic is the neatness of it, the discrete rings. There are few far flung branches off in the wilderness. I presume that because this blog is so focused on classroom life that most people who read it are teachers or educators of other stripes. A wider audience may show a completely different type of diagram. It would be interesting to see how the networks of other edu - blogs look.

This is the network of my classroom blog:

Post a graphic and let me know about it.

Update: There is a Flickr group of these images as well.

Comments

[Ewan McIntosh]

You'll like TouchGraph, which I mention from Will's Keynote in Edinburgh here:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/05/new_internet_li.html

It labels the links out from your blog (but does it label the links coming in, too?)

[Bob Hill]

I too came across this site. I mistyped a website into the box and the site still drew a graphic for a non-existent site. I mentioned it on my blog with a note of caution.