That's me, in the tiny red circle toward the bottom right.
That mysterious picture is a graph showing the interconnections of a subset of blogs on my bloghost, Typepad. It was created by the keeper of a blog called Data Mining, which looks very compelling even beyond the Typepad graph. I can't say I fully understand what a "graph of the largest connected component of only Typepad blogs" actually is, but if you visit Data Mining's post featuring this graph, you can click on any dot - including the dot I circled above - and find your way to some unexpected corner of the Typepad blogiverse. I discovered Data Mining's excellent Typepad graph in the GOAT logs - evidently someone clicked on my little dot and found his or her way here. I hope that person wasn't too disappointed.
An interesting feature of the graph is that blogs with similar subject matter tend to lump together. I think this is because the lines on the graph represent interlinks between blogs, and blogs tend to link to other blogs having similar subject matter. I actually found my blog nestled in a section of the graph that contains mostly law blogs - I think that is due to a couple of trackback links I have to Patently-O that seem to direct one or two readers a day to my little old GOAT.
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