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Twisted Nether Blogcast » Blog Archive » Episode 6- Chicks Dig Kodos — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:06:34 +0000

[...] this has to be on of the coolest things I have seen in a while. Mania from Mania’s Acanica the mistress of Petopia put up a post about a certain map from the creator of El’s Extreme [...]

By: Breanni

Breanni — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:42:50 +0000

I just discovered Tim’s fascinating map this morning and I’m honored to be situated between you and Tim’s own island. I wrote up a little blurb for WarcraftPets.com’s news page as well. Indeed, your island is well-deserved, Mania. And Tim is right… it ought to be bigger! :-)

By: Deidare

Deidare — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:25:23 +0000

Well deserved by the way mania!

By: Deidare

Deidare — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:24:40 +0000

Hey we need an island for some time now, haha and we got it.

By: Yvelle

Yvelle — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:45:29 +0000

That map is really great! I saw so many familiar sites there. And congrats, Mania, for your well-deserved place on it! I’d like to think that the comment about some of the niche sites being “elite” sites might refer to the pure greatness of Petopia. :)

By: El

El — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:43:21 +0000

Suzi – that area of the map contains a lot of sites – warcraftmounts.com would certainly be one, although I suspect Petopia is more widely read. I tried to pick a few examples that show the diversity. Really hard though, because inevitably I missed a lot of sites in that corner, some of which are quite well read – BossKillers, Crafter’s Tome, Big Red Kitty, the list goes on.

(Actually, there seem to be a disproportionate number of hunter-related sites. I wonder why? Perhaps they level fast and struggle to find raid spots, so have a lot of time to read/write…? There must be more to it than that.)

I’m still scratching my head trying to find a more scientific/automated way to make these maps. People like Google and Quantcast are experimenting with “affinity” between sites (literally, which other websites a typical user of one site visits), but I’ve not seen any good visualisation of that data.

By: Suzi

Suzi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:15:31 +0000

Grats Mania! Wow, that’s pretty awesome that he went to that much effort to make that map. Glad you got on it – those 3 are my favourite niche WoW sites!

Just a thought. Would Mania include warcraftmounts.com also?

By: Volcan

Volcan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:09:50 +0000

Hehe that is perfect the guy who made it is a genius

By: Kristy

Kristy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:35:50 +0000

Dang, geez! Fantastic! Awesome! Very surprised. This is very, very nice for you! Woot! lol

By: Jayhawk

Jayhawk — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:07:27 +0000

A well deserved compliment =D