Editing Blogosphere (section)

===Mapping===
[[File:blogosphere map.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Displays interconnections throughout the all blogs|The blogosphere as a network of interconnections]]
In 2007, following six weeks of observation, social media expert Matthew Hurst mapped the blogosphere, generating the plot to the left based on the interconnections between blogs. The most densely populated areas represent the most active portions of the blogosphere. White dots represent individual blogs. They are sized according to the number of links surrounding that particular blog. Links are plotted in both green and blue, with green representing one-way links and blue representing reciprocal links.<ref name="Discover">{{Cite news |date=2007 |title=Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere |url=http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/map-welcome-to-the-blogosphere |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20191031220004/http://discovermagazine.com:80/2007/may/map-welcome-to-the-blogosphere |archive-date=2019-10-31 |access-date=2025-04-09 |work=Discover Magazine}}</ref>

''DISCOVER Magazine'' described six major 'hot spots' of the blogosphere. While points 1 and 2 represent influential individual blogs, point 3 is the perfect example of "blogging island", where individual blogs are highly connected within a sub-community but lack many connections to the larger blogosphere. Point 4 describes a sociopolitical blogging niche, in which links demonstrate the constant dialogue between bloggers who write about the same subject of interest. Point 5 is an isolated sub-community of blogs dedicated to the world of pornography. Lastly, point 6 represents a collection of sports' lovers who largely segregate themselves but still manage to link back to the higher traffic blogs toward the center of the blogosphere.<ref name="Discover" />