As I also briefly mentioned in the previous post (see: Kamangir is Back), I have started working on Project Profiler (see the development log here).
In short, Profiler attempts at discovering the map of the Persian blogosphere, through analyzing the connections between the Persian bloggers in different social networks, including Friendfeed.com, which I have been focused on for the last couple of months. This project will also use the reports now being regularly published by Project Didish.
As a short presentation, here, two preliminary graphs generated by Profiler will be posted. As of know, there are 717 entries in the database, each representing one Persian blogger. These bloggers have been discovered through friendfeed.com.
The first graph shows that from the 566 blogs registered in the database, 171 are on wordpress.com (30%), 122 are on blogspot.com (22%), and 58 are on blogfa.com (10%). Interestingly, about 186 blogs are on their own domains (33%) (also see the corresponding pie chart in the latest Didish report).
The second graph shows the ten services used by the most bloggers registered in the system. Red bars indicate filtered services, while green and magenta denote services which are accessible in Iran and those about which mixed reports have been given, respectively. The category “blog” is included in the mixed reports because many leading blogs are indeed filtered. More detailed analysis of this issue will be carried out in the coming phases of the project.
Profiler not only aims at producing a large detailed map of the Persian blogosphere, it will provide information about connections, usage statistics, and trends in this online society.