Where I fit in the blogosphere

This is an old one, but I was looking at this interactive map of the blogosphere (inspired by discovering an old Harvard Business Review piece on social networks during my spring-cleaning) and I realised why it was so hard to find dsng.net in the map. I'd been looking among the crowd of Singaporean blogs (Xiaxue, Cowboy Caleb etc.) at the bottom right corner, but it turns out the software lumped me somewhere a bit further afield - I'm a little light-blue dot south-west of the big agglomeration. So I guess that's my place in this nabe.

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Elia Diodati said…
May I immodestly point you to my follow-up post to this, which Matthew Hurst himself referred to in a later post on his blog...
1 January 2007 at 13:53
Anonymous said…
Everyone's got a place
But where do I fit in ...
1 January 2007 at 23:11
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