One Hundred Blogospheres

Uttered by Anil Dash at a South by Southwest panel this year, SFist thought it was a great appraisal of the many, many social and interest groups that create their own social networks through blogs. Of course, you could always go Venn diagram crazy (SFist would like to think we're at the nexus of a bunch of different groups centered on The City), as the various groups blend. So your new dad-lefty political enthusiast-Buffy lover-who buys Apple-and lives in Los Angeles have on their blogroll a single mom-classic porn loving-lefty political enthusiast-WinTel-New York and a young punk-apathetic-Buffy lover-WinTel-in San Luis Obispo. Okay, we're not sure we understand that last sentence either. But it's deep, we swear.

Anil's gone and put together a bunch of observations on how individual blogospheres mutate and evolve, as well as interact with existing blogospheres. Remember that weird program "Life" on your Tandy? Or how about your fractal-generated WinAmp visualizer plugins? Think that crossed with high school social interaction patterns. Related, and also on our recommended reading list (there will be a pop quiz sometime next week), is Niall Kennedy's Wikipedia entry on the history of Moveable Type. And since it's Wikipedia, feel free to fact-check!