This referred someone to my blog yesterday, and I am utterly fascinated now by the sheer elegance of it.
We Feel Fine
It’s a visualization of the last few hours of the blogosphere (I hate that word, really) which searches for mood words in people’s posts and then generates a dot for that post. Colors are coded [...]
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We Feel Fine
Posted in science, tagged blogosphere, blogs, infoviz, mood, shinies, twitter, visualization, wefeelfine on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Serendipitous Search
Posted in geekery, tagged boingboing, browsing, digg, flickr, geekery, visualization on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Pescovitz of BoingBoing points to this article and thesis on how and why we browse.
“Specifically, Ottoson focuses on “serendipitous searching,” what he defines as “open browsing for anything that awakens the person’s interest.” It would be interesting to compare Ottoson’s research on real world searching with serendipitous searching online.”
Just as an opening, I’d argue [...]