BlogPulse Newswire is a Readers' Digest for weblogs. It summarizes various topics bouncing around, graphing searches, links etc. What it displays, above all, however, is that this medium is entirely concerned with itself. The network structure lends itself to individuals being concerned about the interactions between others. If weblogs are an emergent system, their key is in these multiple interactions and BlogPulse is trying to pin down the resulting structure.

"It's apparent that blogging has matured quickly now that Dan Gillmor, former technology writer for the San Jose Mercury News, has now established the Center for Citizen Media (the content of today's No. 2 most-cited blog post). The center will have ties to both UC/Berkeley and Harvard and will promote the "emergent grassroots media" movement, says Gillmor."