Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration
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Sermet Pekin writes:

I built an open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration–basically PageRank for the blogosphere. Your blogroll was the main seed source.

It recursively discovers new blogs by following citations and parsing RSS feeds, mapping out how blogs link to each other. Starting from a curated seed list (I used your blogroll recommendations), it can scale to hundreds or thousands of blogs depending on exploration depth. It supports different exploration strategies—breadth-first to explore widely across communities, depth-first to dive…

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