Missed this while on my travels. Anjo, Lilia and Stephanie have been doing some interesting things analysing blog communities through terminology rather than links. [Anjo writes it up here, here and here.]

One of the upshots of it all is a map of a number of blogs organised by terminological similarity rather than links. (The key to the colours is: Knowledge Management (blue), Education (red), Internet Research (black), A-list (dark green)

So where are they going next with it? In the comments, Anjo suggests that:

The next step is to think! Two rather obvious directions are:

- Communities change over time.
- Does linking “predict” terminology, or does terminology “predict” linking?

Some things I’d be interested in are how the real world location of the bloggers affects their positions on the map, whether you can work out who the translators in the group(s) are, and where the link/language disconnects are (i.e. if you’re bang next to someone you don’t link to).

Like the way they’re heading a lot.

{And sounds like I missed Lilia’s birthday, so belated happy returns!]