Three interesting themes from Techmeme

Reading techmeme this am over coffee, saw some interesting posts picking up on themes we've been tracking over the last few months.

Firstly, Nick Carr's note on the application of heavy maths from sewer contaminant analysis to the blogosphere network to define which blogs are real nodes (ie the "true" A list blogs) if you are looking at Tipping point impact. Somehow the analysis of blogs using sewer maths seems truly apt

The top 100 are listed here...must say a few surprise me, like Kathy Sierra's (she hasn't written for months), and no TechCrunch - but the methodology looks sound, probably needs a bit of tweaking though (We got into this whole area when we built the Zeitgeist-o-meter earlier this year).

Secondly, the first real shots in the "throttling war" from the Telcos who feel they are suffering from the "free rides" all the big bandwidth services get over their pipes. Deutsche Telecom is proposing a two tier internet, and proposing to charge a premium to bandwidth hogs. This one is not going to go away, as Telco's are not going to take the large, long term risks of serious capital investment in mo' pipes on the say so of flakey Web 2.0 co's with dodgy Ad-based models - they will want to see real money streams.

Thirdly, a very interesting pair of posts around navigating Web TV on Current.com (from Read/Write Web) and on using Web Video well. Web video is such a new field that any best practice is very useful, and we have opined before that the navigation experience of web TV is the "EPG meets Search" arena, and feel this will be one of the key battlegrounds for Web TV players - and that no-one is anywhere close to cracking it yet (or more accurately no one is certain what customers will really run with).