Want to know what navalny looks like? Here you go. It looks like this:
and like this
Right, if you look at navalny not just as a cozy little personal blog, but as words, links, connections, and themes, then Harvard University's mega-algorithm says that this is what I look like. But actually, this is not just me, or even mainly me. It's you. Groups of readers broken down by type: nationalists, the democratic opposition, business, news, and so on. Obviously, the terminology is fairly arbitrary, but this is exactly the crude, prosaic way those Americans decided to describe the subtle matter of Russian blogs. I wrote earlier that I would be speaking in Washington at the presentation of this report. In my view, this thing is astonishingly interesting and changes our understanding of the Russian blogosphere in many ways. I'll definitely write about it in more detail when I get a free minute. Also, Lenta.ru has set up an online press conference with me on this topic. In the meantime, here's a link to the report itself (unfortunately, for now it's only available in English). And here is a link to an interesting article by Maxim Trudolyubov trudolyubov, where he reflects on this study: In the Russian internet, bloggers are not nearly as closed off. The two forces that most resemble politically opposite poles—"democrats" and "nationalists" (the labels are conditional)—link to each other far more often than "liberals" and "conservatives" do in the English-speaking internet. This, however, is understandable: most "democrats" and "nationalists" are oppositional to one degree or another, which means they have a common theme.