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Flopping Aces On The Map

Posted by: Curt @ 5:34 pm in Blogging, Politics

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Very cool map put together of the 297 most influential political websites and whadda ya know…Flopping Aces made it into the list. (h/t Hot Air)

Apparently the size of the circle is the amount of inbound and outbound links. The area your circle is in relates to where your links come from. More conservative links and you go more right and vice versa.

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CentFla

Wow, why can’t I stop looking at this?

June 23rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm

jainphx

I say you belong higher, I mean where else can you get politics with a smile.

June 23rd, 2008 at 6:52 pm

MataHarley

Uh… how can you tell, Curt. Altho *very* happy FA made “a map”. But is there a search function to see names? Because it’s like looking at MikeA’s “dizzy Obama” photo trying to find FA there!

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UPDATE: Found the “search” function. Looks like FA and HuffPo are about equal in “influence”…. gasp! LOL

On the flip side, No Quarters doesn’t even register. No wonder their rumor mill isn’t making it to solid ground.

June 23rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm

luva the scissors

i think it looks kinda cool, whoever thought of doing that had a great imagination.

June 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm

MataHarley

…or a digital sharpie, lots of time and even more drugs….

June 23rd, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Mike's America

Poor Mike’s America… such a small speck of red so far off to the right it doesn’t even show up!

And since Mata H made the request….

June 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm

bbartlog

Pretty neat. Do the up and down directions correspond to anything? Doesn’t seem like it (lewrockwell.com and amconmag, who are in fairly close agreement politically, end up on opposite sides).
I think that the color coding may have been done by hand. Also it seems to have some issues positioning blogs with few links - for example, http://www.becker-posner-blog.com is waaaayyy over on the right, even though it doesn’t seem particularly radical.
Other interesting points: look where http://www.mikehuckabee.com ended up. Also http://www.johnmccain.com. Huckabee is one of the farthest left of the ‘red’points - John McCain a little further right but not much. Compare the position of http://www.usmc.mil, way over on the right.

June 24th, 2008 at 6:31 am