Some More Eyecandy from IssueCrawler

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "a little authority" according to Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received by a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "a little authority" according to Technorati; node size indicates the centrality of a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "some authority" according to Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received by a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "some authority" according to Technorati; node size indicates the centrality of a node. [SVG]

These crawls indicate a reasonably pronounced clustering; there seems to be a notable division between left-wing and right-wing blogs, with the former clustering around sites such as Road to Surfdom and Larvatus Prodeo, the latter around Tim Blair. It appears as if the left-wing clusters is significantly larger than the right-wing one; this may be an indication of the socioeconomic makeup of the Australian blogosphere (or of heavy Internet users in Australia more generally), but could also be a reaction to the long-term dominance of right-wing politicians on the federal level of Australian politics - if political blogging is mainly a critical exercise, perhaps there's less to blog about if you broadly agree with government policy?

Past 30 Days:

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "a little authority" over the last 30 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received by a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "a little authority" over the last 30 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates the centrality of a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "some authority" over the last 30 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received by a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "some authority" over the last 30 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates the centrality of a node. [SVG]

Past 3 Days Only:

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "a little authority" over the last 3 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received by a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "a little authority" over the last 3 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates the centrality of a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "some authority" over the last 3 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received by a node. [SVG]

Crawl seeded from posts with at least "some authority" over the last 3 days, according to Technorati; node size indicates the centrality of a node. [SVG]

Interesting to see that here, the left/right divide isn't anywhere as pronounced. Additionally, we also see the presence of a number of relevant non-blog sites at least on the periphery (Australian Labor Party, Greens, Rightsatwork). These are likely to have been linked into the blog discussion as sources of information rather than as active participants. Sites of the Coalition parties, and Australian Federal Government Websites, are conspicuous only by their absence, though...