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BlogPulse Conversation Tracker

When a blogger publishes a post and other bloggers link to it, the post becomes part of a conversation. The initial post is the “seed” of the conversation. What happens next is fascinating. Posts linking to the seed are themselves linked to, and so on. From the seed post grows a conversation graph. The nodes of the graph are posts and the arcs of the graph are permalink citations from post to post.

What’s missing from the blog world is a tool for assembling snapshots of weblog “conversations”. The BlogPulse Conversation Tracker creates a threaded view of the conversation graph. To create a threaded view, it performs a depth-first traversal of the conversation graph, starting from the seed post and visiting each node only once.

(via Micro Persuasion)