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Boston.
In addition to the various vodcast-based means of staying up to date with political developments [4] in Australia and the world even while in the sadly news-starved U.S., I'm also a regular reader of Larvatus Prodeo [5] at the moment - one of the most consistently insightful Australian political group blogs. (The Prodeans are having a great deal [6] of fun [7] at the expense of the Canberra press gallery punditariat at the moment - very enjoyable.)
So, in that context it's very timely that my article on mapping the Australian political blogosphere using the IssueCrawler research tool has just been published in First Monday [8]. This analyses my David Hicks case study, some of the outcomes of which I've published here in the past [9], with a particular view to outlining possible methodological opportunities combining IssueCrawler [10] and Technorati [11]. I'm very grateful to Edward Valauskas and the First Monday team for turning the article around so quickly - beats print journals any time...
This article is something of a stepping stone to the chapter on the Australian political blogosphere which Debra Adams and I have proposed for the Accented Blogging [12] collection (and which we're currently writing). There are plenty more opportunities for applying network research using IssueCrawler and similar tools to the study of blogs, of course - I'm also interested in exploring the use of additional technologies such as Yahoo! Pipes [13] (as a means of pre-filtering the crawl seeds, for example) and IBM's exciting Many Eyes visualisation tools [14], which Josh Green [15] put me on to the other day (for further interactive visualisation of the crawl results). If anyone else is working in this area, I'd love to hear from you...
Links
[1] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/47
[2] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/9
[3] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/62
[4] http://snurb.info/node/671
[5] http://larvatusprodeo.net/
[6] http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/05/14/moral-panic-monday-iv-the-global-war-for-talent/
[7] http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/05/14/masterclass-vs-galaxy-of-love/
[8] http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/bruns/index.html
[9] http://snurb.info/node/634
[10] http://www.issuecrawler.net/
[11] http://technorati.com/
[12] http://adrienne.typepad.com/adrienne_russell/2007/01/call_for_book_c.html
[13] http://pipes.yahoo.com/
[14] http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
[15] http://convergenceculture.org/aboutc3/people.php#joshua
[16] http://technorati.com/tag/Australia
[17] http://technorati.com/tag/First%20Monday
[18] http://technorati.com/tag/IssueCrawler
[19] http://technorati.com/tag/Larvatus%20Prodeo
[20] http://technorati.com/tag/blogs
[21] http://technorati.com/tag/politics
[22] http://technorati.com/tag/research
[23] http://del.icio.us/tag/Australia
[24] http://del.icio.us/tag/First+Monday
[25] http://del.icio.us/tag/IssueCrawler
[26] http://del.icio.us/tag/Larvatus+Prodeo
[27] http://del.icio.us/tag/blogs
[28] http://del.icio.us/tag/politics
[29] http://del.icio.us/tag/research