Daily Shaarli
February 8, 2006
Half-Life 2: Fakefactory Cinematic Mod
"I have been coming across many del.icio.us tools to visualize usage during my daily researching hours. So many, that I have decided to start making note of the ones I come across. From the span of about two weeks, I have been collecting as many as I coul
The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now we’re looking to a new set of tools to aggregate and remix microcontent in new and useful ways.
The artwork is an interactive map of more than 33,000 words. Each word has been assigned a color based on the average color of images found by a search engine. The words are then grouped by meaning. The resulting patterns form an atlas of our lexicon.
The notion is that the Internet is becoming less of a place we "go to" and more of a layer atop our entire everyday reality. As a result, the term "cyberspace," coined by William Gibson in 1984, just doesn't seem relevant anymore.
"First you google, but then what?
Why is collecting and sharing, beyond photos and email, so hard?
Why can't I put all my favorite stuff in one place?"
"The hard work that RSS does allows us to keep up with many more Web sites in much less time. But it also allows us to share information that we weren’t sharing before, allowing others to remix our content in new, useful ways."
In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What comes back from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?
Blogjects - a neologism Julian Bleecker came up with for objects that blog - exemplify the soon-to-come 'Internet of Things', i.e. a network of tangible, mobile, chatty things enabled by the miniaturization, the ubiquity of consumer electronics and a perv
"...refers to the collaborative but unsophisticated way in which information is being categorized on the web. Instead of using a centralized form of classification, users are encouraged to assign freely chosen keywords (called tags) to pieces of informati
"I think the most interesting aspects of Web 2.0 are new tools that explore the continuum between the personal and the social, and tools that are endowed with a certain flexibility and modularity which enables collaborative remixability"
a novel treemap data visualization approach that uses Voronoi tesselations
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.