My friends at the Harvard Berkman Center have an interesting post on what the Iranian blogosphere looks linke on the eve of the election.

Based on our monitoring of the Iranian blogosphere on election eve, it looks like Mousavi has broader support in the online blog community than Ahmadinejad. (For a broader understanding of the different attentive clusters in Iran check out our new online interactive Iran blogosphere map). The below maps show who is linking to websites associated with the candidates. It’s pretty interesting to see the contrast between Ahmadinejad emtedadmehr.com), whose links are very concentrated in the Conservative Politics cluster, and Mousavi mirhussein.com), whose links come from all over the map, not just the reformist politics group.
I met Bruce Etling and John Kelly at a Berkman event in Germany where they presented some fascinating findings on the Arab blogosphere (not least because it reveals that Al Jazeera is one of the most cited sources). After lots of data-mining and human tagging, they're able to produce these amazing visualisations that cluster blogs into similar genres, views and so on.
More on their Internet and Democracy blog.




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