From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 11:49:18 MDT
Great link, Anders!
Last month while enjoying Douglas Rushkoff's presentation at the H2K2
conference, it dawned on me that a neat add-on to current instant
messenger applications would be the ability to create dynamic social
network diagrams based on your buddy list and the buddy lists of those
on your buddy list.
Has anyone heard of any such application?
I know Apple is planning to include a feature called "rendezvous" in
their next major version release, which dynamically adds people to your
buddy list who are on your WLAN segment.. but that's not quite enough.
It would be really great to have those diagrams. :)
-crw.
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> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:28:47AM -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
>>
>> If you haven't yet, you might want to check out the man they call
>> the Da Vinci of information display, Edward R. Tufte and his books:
>>
>> The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
>>
>> Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
>>
>> Envisioning Information.
>
> Yes, Tufte is worth a shrine. His books are *beautiful* and contain a
> treasure trove of wonderful ideas for visualisations. He has been a
> great source of inspiration for me.
>
> Apropos visualisation:
> http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu:7850/JoSS/article.html has a great review of
> the history of visual analysis of social networks, with some interesting
> ideas. I especially like the concept of making a graph with two kinds of
> nodes (in our case it would be people and threads) which could then be
> placed in two different layers. So much to explore!
>
> As for my work being post or webpage of the month, maybe we should have
> a new category: implementation of the month. The informal award goes to
> the best or most interesting implementation of something extropian -
> software, courses, activism, companies or other things that promote or
> participate in the extropian evolution. This way we can promote both
> more RL implementation, and the creation of new ways of expressing
> ourselves in media beyond the web and email.
>
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