Really neat tool for exploring relationships in the blogosphere

John Battelle is a visionary with the idea of creating a tool much like the one used by Amazon, Yahoo and the like to group music artists together based on listener likes to that of Blogs. This revolutionary concept would help track point of origin conversations/posts as well as the life cycle as the blog grows. Stretching this further, all podcasts can have a similar tool/interface to expose people to similar casts. Right now he (John) is looking for people to help. He has contacted several key players doing similar type groupings and they are willing to help. If anyone knows a technical resource that can help the begining phase, I'm sure there is a venture capitalist willing to fund the concept.[Link]: "John Battelle's Searchblog: Blog Plasma."