by: David Armano
Yet another stab at the blog levels of influence idea. There are multiple ripples overlapping, happening in a three dimensional space—in real time. If this were animated, the ripples would not dissapear, but radiate. However more recent ripples would come into focus as new thoughts, conversations, and interactions happen over time.
Influenced by:
"it's a model - but one that should recognize a lot of other overlapping ponds. {worm holes might be another analogy)."
Craig Lefebvre
"One thing that I did wonder in your diagram was whether it was true that there was only one pool of influence… "
leisa.reichelt
"The sphere (blog) has a pulse from the inside, various sizes, various intensities and frequencies... making ripples, or making waves."
mindblob
"My guess is that it's more 3D than that (with time as another axis?) but this is a really good start"
Seth Godin.
"One conceptual problem I have with the ripple concept is ripples disappear, where as the ripples in the blogosphere form permanent records of memes and ideas."
karl long
"The influence sphere is constantly changing."
Toby
"It strikes me that topics simultaneously appear across the blogosphere ... in a zeitgeist kind of way -- resulting in the emergence of conversational topics that begin, leap and skip from one blog to another.
Gavin Heaton"
Original Post: http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/08/influence_rippl_1.html
Wow, I am humbled that you put my suggestion into action.
This displays the complexity very well and, without depicting every possible circle, and makes the point of the intersecting waves of influence/convergence.
Now for someone trying to influence these networks the task becomes much more visual. As I mentioned before, think about where the "worm holes" are between networks (the connectors) and then who are the most influential people within the network of interest - they are not necessarily going to be the same people.
Next thing you know, we're communicating with networks and not just individuals (network marketing vs broadcast models).