an interesting force-directed visualization demonstrating how two-thirds of the websites & blogs devoted to France's recent referendum about the European Constitution favoured the 'No' campaign. the original dataset contained 12.000 sites, of which only 295 sites commented on the referendum. the graph shows the hierarchy of hyperlinked connections between those blogs, & explores the potential influence of blogs on the referendum & its aftermath.

From the information aesthetics blog.. The original article can be found here in its native french.