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The PresidentialWatch08 map is composed of the 297 most visible and influential websites and blogs - out of a complete dataset of over 2000 sites - using Linkfluence™’s proprietary crawl technology.
The map includes both social media and mainstream media outlets. The sites are divided into four different categories, or communities (manually labelled):
- Conservative
- Independent
- Mass Media
- Progressive
The PW08 map’s default view is set to display all the categories at once (Conservative, Independent, Mass Media, Progressive). You can select the individual communities you’re interested in and more carefully analyze the links existing between them - most notable to see who links to whom, and what their level of authority is within their community.See the notice for more practical details on map navigation.
As shown in the map’s navigation bar, a node’s color indicates the community it belongs to, and a node’s size indicates its authority degree (overall number of inbound links) or its Xeno degree (number of inbound links coming from nodes belonging to other categories).
The more links a node receives from other nodes shown on the map, the bigger it appears on the map. Note that the link count is based solely upon links coming from nodes on the map. Links coming from websites located outside of the map are excluded. Based on this approach, we can determine the level of authority attributed to a given site within these communities. This approach may occasionally favor bloggers who splog (spam-blog) others, artificially generating inbound links to their blogs by an abusive use of such techniques as trackbacks. Given the size of the map’s set of websites, we were able to make sure such artificial results were not present.
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