Research by Anne Helmond and Esther Weltevrede

1. Mapping the Dutch
Blogosphere*
Anne Helmond, Digital Methods Initiative,
University of Amsterdam
* Work in progress by Anne Helmond and Esther Weltevrede

2. Mijn name is Anne
and I’m a blogger
Photo: Guido van Nispen

3. and a researcher

4. Master thesis:
Blogging for Engines.
Blogs under the In uence of Software-
Engine Relations.
PhD research:
Cross-platform syndication politics
within social media.

5. A history of the Dutch blogosphere:
1995 - 2005

6. Frank Schaap,
‘Links, Lives, Logs: Presentation in
the Dutch Blogosphere’, 2003.
Frank Schaap, ‘Links, Lives, Logs: Presentation in the Dutch Blogosphere’, 2003. Into the Blogosphere:
Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs < http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/

7. linklogs
Claim: Two types of blogs in the
early Dutch blogosphere
lifelogs

8. Current Dutch blogosphere:
platformlogs

9. platformlogs

10. Research: Mapping changing blog
practices in the Dutch
blogosphere. A shift from linklogs
> lifelogs > platformlogs

11. How?
Analyzing the linkstructure
of a blogosphere

12. Method
1. Startlist URLs*
2. Archive collection with Internet Archive
3. Create hyperlink networks (IssueCrawler)
* Sources: Arie Altena, Gert-Jan Lasterie, Frank Meeuwsen, Merel Roze, Frank
Schaap. In de future: Webloglijst: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://weblog.lijst.nl/
Nedstat top 1000 weblogs’ statistics: http://webstats.motigo.com/s?tab=4&link=3&id=837798&country=NL&category=3016

13. startingpoints
http://alt0169.com http://users.skynet.be/boekblog http://www.ikbeneenspammerd.tk
http://babygrandpa.com http://web-log.nl http://www.jaggle.nl
http://bieslog.vpro.nl http://weblog.lijst.nl http://www.janmarijnissen.nl
http://bit.ly/gotblog http://weblogqueens.nl http://www.kamerbeek.nl
http://blogs.skynet.be http://weblogs.vpro.nl/wimdebie http://www.l-rs.org
http://bloodyhell.nl http://webmarketing.web-log.nl http://www.leiden.pvda.nl/weblogs/marije
http://chris.nl.nu http://wimdebie.blogspot.com http://www.letmestayforaday.com
http://curry.com http://www.10e.nl http://www.maanisch.com
http://dit.is/smoel http://www.2525.com http://www.martinbril.nl
http://dutchproblogger.com http://www.aboutblank.nl http://www.merelroze.com
http://cnn.sgm.nl http://www.alamut.com http://www.meukia.nl
http:// abber.nl http://www.arnongrunberg.com/blog http://www.michaelabanks.com
http://fokkehannah.nl http://www.autoblog.nl http://www.neukia.nl
http://foresthill.wordpress.com http://www.bicat.net http://www.nicodijkshoorn.com
http://frankwatching.com http://www.bieslog.nl http://www.nqpaofu.com
http://geenstijl.nl http://www.blog.nl http://www.openhaard.net
http://kapingamarangi.be http://www.bloghelden.nl http://www.perk.nl/morewherethat
http://marketing.pagina.nl http://www.blogo.nl http://www.pivotlog.net
http://marketingfacts.nl http://www.bright.nl http://www.projecta.net
http://merelroze.com http://www.buffie.be http://www.proli c.org
http://nobodyhere.com http://www.burorenkema.nl http://www.reprorecht.nl
http://proli c.org http://www.camarados.com http://www.ronaldgiphart.nl
http://ransporn.com http://www.camathome.com http://www.sargasso.nl
http://retecool.com http://www.cedar.nl/pro http://www.sayeverything.com
http://sargasso.nl http://www.decontrabas.com http://www.stronk.net
http://sikkema.net http://www.dutchcowboys.nl http://www.taalbank.nl
http://stemhok.nl http://www.edial.nl http://www.tuulk.net
http://thenotsodailycrap.nl http://www.egoweb.nl/smoel http://www.vandenb.com
http://tonie.net http://www. abber.nl http://www.vkmag.com
http://users.pandora.be/ludo.van.hove http://www.frankwatching.com http://www.woordsoep.nl
http://zo.nu

14. Hyperlink network tool:
IssueCrawler
The Issue Crawler is Web network and visualization
software and consists of crawlers, databases, analysis
engines, and visualization modules. The purpose of
the software is to locate and visualize issue networks.
It relies on co-link analysis, a scientometric (or
webmetric) technique based on citation analysis.

16. Dutch Blogosphere
18 May 2010

17. zoom +

18. zoom ++a

19. zoom ++b

20. zoom +++

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22. zoom ++++

24. platformlogs

25. platformlogs
Susan Herring, professor of information science at Indiana University, sees it this way:
“What the statistics point to is a rise in Facebook, a
decline in blogging, and before that, a decline in
personal Web pages. The trend is clear, she said —
Facebook is displacing these other forms of online
publication.”
New York Times, 14 May 2010

26. platformlogs

27. Linkstructure Dutch blogosphere
in 2010: social media platforms

28. Further research
• Create snapshots of the Dutch blogosphere
with the Internet Archive archive collection and
analyse hyperlink network per year.
• How do linking practices change and which
clusters emerge? When do the social media
platforms arrive?
• Diagnosing the current condition of the early
Dutch blogosphere.

29. Loglijst in
Internet Archive

30. NL Blogosphere
deceased blogs
rip links + test

31. kthxbai!
anne@digitalmethods.net
+1 esther!