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June 6, 2006

Comment Connundrum & Blog Graph

Greetings and salutations.

I've been struggling with comment spam for a while now. So, I ratcheted up MT's anti-spam filter. Everyone who should have been approved got sent to the "Junk Comment" holding bin, and two genuine spam comments got immediately posted.

Sigh.

So, if your comment doesn't show up, just wait. I'll see it eventually and when I do I'll make sure it gets posted.

And if you can't find your comment because of all the spam, just wait. I'll see it eventually and when I do I'll make sure it gets sent back to the fiery hell from which it originated.

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And on a completely unrelated note, here's a nifty web ap I found chez Scott-O-Rama: a program that analyzes your site and then renders the Websites As Graphs!

Here's the graph for Digital Digressions:

bloggraph1.jpg

Cool, ain't it?

Here's what each of the colors stands for:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

I'm still pondering what it all means. What do you think?

Posted by reparent at June 6, 2006 1:35 PM

Comments

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Posted by: Attic Man at June 7, 2006 1:14 PM

Super-cool!
As a graphics-and-maps person, I think it's neato. I put through a couple of pages on my own website that were heavy on one particular kind of tag, with neat results - more 60s minimalist floral print than graph. One, a page only made up of text links and some standard paragraph tags, looks like blue flowers with orange centers. The thing I like most about this web app is how it draws the image and how the image keeps moving slightly; makes it seem delicate and organic. Neato!

Posted by: Alice at June 7, 2006 10:08 PM

Posted by: Alice at June 7, 2006 10:09 PM

Yes, but do you understand what the lines represent, and can you explain it to the rest of us?

Right now, the best I can do is to use the frequency of each color to approximate a sort of gestalt analysis.

Posted by: Richard [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 8, 2006 2:57 PM

It's an interesting approach to analyzing a site ... I'd like to see something like this extended to social webs (e.g. on facebook) or semantic webs (e.g. tag clouds). Or vice versa, automatically building site clouds, etc.

Posted by: Steve at June 9, 2006 8:56 AM