Blogging for teaching and learning

Thanks to the folks at datamining.com, here is an interactive snapshot of the blogosphere… taken in 2005. Check out the other “maps” that are there as well.

Here too is another visual representation of the blogosphere, made by physicists at Tel Aviv University. <quote>It is a mathematical representation of the pipes, routers and other bits of hardware that ferry data across the web. At the map’s red (gooey?) center there is a cluster of a 100 networks operated by massive corporations like ATT and Google. It’s purple crunchy outer shell is small ISPs. The trouble with being on the periphery is that you must travel through the congested center, sort of like making a plane change in Ohare between NYC and LA. </quote>

So… yes, it looks oh so inefficient…but through such tools as tagging, it is becoming less so. Here is an example of tagging and a digital photo repository to illustrate that point….

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