Visual Settlements

Hat tip to Alex Halavais.  Visual Settlements are a cool way of viewing blogs developed by Anjo Anjewierden.  The image is his blog analyzed against a defined community of blogs focused on knowledge management.  Here's his explanation:

• Size of a blob is determined by the number of words in the post. Bigger blob, more words (in fact: every pixel represents one word).
• Colour of the blob is determined by whether there are links to others (grey), links from others (green) or no links (red). All with respect to a community of KM bloggers determined by Lilia and Stephanie 
• Position of the blog is determined by the chronological order (oldest posts are in the center) and by self-linking (if a post self links back to an own post, it will appear close to the original post).