Comments(1)Newspapers uncut
Lovely idea from City Comforts in response to some umbrage taken by Lance Knobel.
Considering the effectively unlimited storage capacity afforded by servers, mainstream media could publish far more letters as well as, of course, its own unused copy. For example, a reporter may write a good 2000 words. But solely for reasons constraints of the printed edition, the article is edited to 500 words. Why not publish the whole thing as an part of an expanded edition of the “paper?” Its “outtakes.”
Breakdown of Organisations
Sounds like Ross Mayfield has some fascinating dinners. How about this for a snippet?
“we’re seeing a fundamental shift in how we think about aggregating human effort … Big companies are going to be the last to get this…How do you change the DNA of large organizations?” To which Michael Patsalos-Fox, who heads McKinsey’s operations in North America, replied: “Maybe that’s just an impossibility…Maybe the corporation as we know it will actually break down into networked units of some sort.”
Y Viva Espana
Off to sunny Spain for a week starting today. So a very early happy Christmas to everyone. Or happy winterval. Or whatever you’re meant to say. Have fun!
Tag Social Network Visualistion
Just quickly - have finally gotten round to updating the mapping your blog mind post of a couple of weeks ago and uploading some code so you can do it yourself (if you’ve got MT and if it’s even remotely interesting!).
Empirical tags experiment
Looks like Prof Chuck and his graduate student might be about to do an interesting experiment.
“a study where we compare information retrieval times and errors when people are using 2 kinds of info organizations: traditional hierarchical/taxonomic categories versus tags.Between groups: We are thinking of having subjects come in and sort 100 photographs into categories or tag 100 pictures. Then, a few days or one week later, they would have to retrieve a subset of those pictures. Of course we would control the amount of time spent on the pictures.”
It got me thinking about maths proofs of the same problem. Presumably, you could do some statistical analysis of the problem? And that might let you know something about the relevant pro’s and con’s, of say how many tags to use?
(This all then made me realise how much maths I’d forgotten or never knew, but anyway, here goes some thinking out loud…)
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A Revised Tube Map
Oskar Karlin has done something wonderful. For his London College of Printing course, he had a go at redesigning the London Underground map. After worrying about how impossible a job it was to improve on a design classic, he decided:
“I knew couldn’t just do a normal re-design; something had to be added. I started thinking what’s different in the world now from when the map was designed and one thing that are different today is time. No one has any time left any more. Time is money. Time is everything and so on. Today you never tell anyone how far away in miles you live, but in minutes or perhaps hours if you’re unlucky. So I decided to create a re-design based on time instead of distance (normal maps) or simplicity (tube maps). By combining geographically accuracy with simplicity and time I started out with measuring the time it takes to travel between each station in the whole system.”
Great stuff.
Us, Them and the Internet
One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’.
Source: Douglas Adams
Mapping your blog mind revisited
A while ago I posted some thoughts about creating a mindmap of your blog. I’ve spent the last couple of evenings fiddling around with tags, a little easy php and Ucinet, some SNA software. I thought I’d post the rough and ready pics now, and do some more explaining when I’ve more time tomorrow.
A 3d visualisation of my blog tags
A 2d visualisation of my blog tags
Highlighting one tag (information overload)
[UPDATE]
If you want to have a play around with this sort of stuff, here’s what I did.
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