Thanks a lot for your comments and to Nathan for publishin the article. The sketch is in a realy early stage, so the sources of data are not clear.

@Trace and @Danes i think the main points of tracking should be around thinks that already track you like technorati & feedburner, plus your content producers: twitter and rss… i knew there’s a lot of reactions missing here, that’s the reason why google is include: it obviusly will reflect reactions included in the previous systems, but also include a much broader vision of the activity around your content. I don’t know if this should change when adding new trackers (let’s say jaiku, or wikipedia), but for sure google will provide a broader search.

@Scott the main inner circle is reflecting the 100% of the activity around you… so if most of the content is tracked through technorati, that section will be bigger, representing it actual value. anyway your idea is really nice, focusing on colours to reflect previous states.

@Bram thanks a lot for your comments, is good to see that this can go up as anything useful to people. the idea was, as you said, to minimize the time of gathering all the information by ourselves, and let the information play new roles on the intersection points between the data collected.

@Joe definitely it looks like Simon :) maybe with more service tracking inside the inner circle it can look different. I have another version of this sketch in plain stats, without applying polar coordinates transformations around the main graphs.

Thanks you all for your comments, it’s really nice to see that FlowingData followers are so interested…

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Your visualization is an interesting way to display social media monitoring. I use Intelligence Feed, a combination of aggregated and filtered RSS stream (think Yahoo!Pipes, MagpieRSS, AideRSS and Dapper), to get a bird’s eye view of both my personal profile and brands I manage. Right now, though, they’re only displayed through Netvibes in a manner much less dynamic than yours (ie. http://netvibes.com/refresh)

Tracking these data is worth the effort, though, because by aggregating and filtering data, we reduce the time that it takes to manage our online presence. For instance, I can easily see relevant blog posts, and tweet it for my followers to see and talk about. This is because I can see all these data in one environment, without needing to switch between, for instance, a Twitter client and RSS reader.

I particularly love your notion of ‘inner’ and ‘outer circles,’ and visualizing how our presence makes an impact on the internet.

However, most of the efforts so far have been centered around gathering and filtering through external, third-party service (Technorati, and services I wrote above.) I’m interested in studying ways in which we can, like you said, “look for intersection points within.”

Thanks for writing an amazing article!

I like the post and your thinking though. This is just a suggestion.