Valdis Krebs is speaking on Social netowrks analysis. Picture here. Valdis showing diagrams that are examples of Social Network Maps. Here is an example from his site. Now Eszter Hargittai is talking about the links between and among Political Weblogs. Sunstein’s theory (link courtesy of Eszter – thanks) is that there should be little interlinkage between blogs of different political pursuasions. The opposite theory is there is a conversation between the sides of the issues. They did a 120 size sample. Today’s sample is 41, did full text and blogroll analysis for three separate weeks, Before the DNC and RNC, during the week before the election, and march 13-19 2005.