Vanity Fair Unveils Blog Chart

Vanity Fair has created an innovative chart of the current American blogosphere.

Blogopticon features blogs with subject matters such as news and journalism, politics, showbiz, and social media.

The chart has two continuums - tone and content - with tone ranging from Scurrilous to Earnest and content going from News to Opinion.

Creators Matt Pressman and Keenan Mayo say they created the Blogopticon in order to provide a simple guide to the sprawling blogosphere.

They write: “In an effort to make some sense of it all, Vanity Fair has charted the most influential or amusing blogs about politics, gossip, Hollywood, media, and miscellany, and located them on two basic continuums: tone and content.”

Among the journalism blogs featured are Jeff Jarvis’s Buzz Machine, Poynter Online’s Romenesko blog, and Cyber Journalist.