Through Lilia Efimova, I knew what Anjo Anjewierden was up to regarding visualizing blog content. When she was in town Lilia showed me Anjo's BlogTrace application, the subject of two papers. I've been hacking away at a similar concept, called a BlogScape, that's a little lighter on the analysis, although long term I'd like to incorporate many of Anjo's ideas. Here's to either a little friendly competition or enlightened collaboration.
One thing that's obvious, getting this to scale up to lots of blogs and webfeeds is going to take a lot of work.