josh on/future farmers, creator of the awardwinning theyrule.net, has released a similar project that maps connections between politicians and lobbies. political friendster takes up the friendster look and feel to visualise the ties between say ralph nader and g dubya bush for instance. its a huge and ugly swamp out there…
our favorite american intellectual noam chomsky has started a blog @ zmag.org. finally, i might add! i remember google searching for a chomsky blog years ago… here it is: turning the tide.