I cleaned up blogrollfinder.py a bit and ran it again, this time just looking one level deep: sites that are listed on blogrolls of people who are on my blogroll. This answers the question, Who are the people that you’re reading reading that you’re not reading?
The answer is enlightening:
| Name | Links |
|---|---|
| Dave Winer | 12 |
| Doc Searls | 7 |
| Jeffrey Zeldman | 5 |
| Lawrence Lee | 5 |
| Jason Kottke | 5 |
| Scott Andrew | 4 |
| Meg Hourihan | 4 |
| Evan Williams | 4 |
| Dori Smith and Tom Negrino | 4 |
| Glenn Fleishman | 4 |
| Lucian Millis | 3 |
| Alwin Hawkins | 3 |
| Eric Maynard | 3 |
| Meryl.net | 3 |
| MemePool | 3 |
| Louis Rosenfeld | 3 |
| Lost Remote | 3 |
| LISNews | 3 |
| Library News Daily | 3 |
| Steven Cohen | 3 |
| Jessamyn West | 3 |
| Gary Price | 3 |
| library_geek | 3 |
| Mike Sanders | 3 |
| Jim Roepcke | 3 |
There is a surprisingly strong contingent of library-related weblogs that I am apparently related to by blogroll and didn’t even know it. My mother would be proud; she was a librarian for many years. Guess it’s in my blood.
Update: On further inspection, it seems there was a bug in the script which counted everything on Jenny Levine’s blogroll twice. Still, it is interesting that she acts as a sort of window into a new, tightly interlinked community. Dedicated readers may recall that Google originally recommended her to me through a list of “related” links. Wild.
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