Hi here are some examples of mapping weblogs that might be interesting.

First off, one can map the location of the blog or more likely the
blogger as in the case of :
http://www.nycbloggers.com/
http://www.londonbloggers.co.uk/

I heard about these from a short story in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/technology/circuits/27GEE1.html

Interestingly, they both use the subway map as the geographic template.
Mapping websites by location used to popular back in the early days of the
web (circa 94/95) but as a way of indexing it does not scale. I wrote
about this in a short article a while back, 'Indexing The Web With
Geography',
http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_017/

An alternative is mapping the actual content of the weblogs. An example
of this is provdided by Semant-O-Matic (an experimental open source blog
search engine) which attempts a simple map of results
http://www.idlewords.com/semantic

Details on this are from the FAQ:

Viewing Results in Graphical Form
This bit is still under development. You should be able to mouse over each
story to see the first 300 characters of the post. Posts are color-coded
by blogger. The X and Y coordinates mean nothing in themselves, but the
relative distance between posts should reflect the semantic distance - so
that things that cluster together might be more relevant than points at
opposite ends of the graph. This part is getting replaced soon with a
better, happier, vector-graphics interface.


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cyber geography research
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