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through the city
... let me find some nice reminders .. Related posts:Aspects of hybridity cinematized blog – Uncovered: The War on Iraq some news… let me find some nice reminders .. Related posts:.. and again: introducing some more ambivalence on this theme paradise nowlooking back on 2009 ….
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nice and easy – though systematizing differently
.. not intended to write on that – but as not having my usual internet set-up at the moment – I was that nicely surprised by delicious the new convenience in having the tags displayed and easy to select at the post-it site. Hopefully that will help someone like me to keep the own categorizational ...
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mapping strategies of our times
....relating to new tendencies emerging through influences of technics fits also this interesting post on maps at Designobserver: The Flickr map is, of course, a macro view of the world. The micro perspective of internet connectivity, its DNA if you will, is harder to get at — and why the map of Enron e-mail above, ...
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tagging changes categorical systems
Clay Shirky has a nice article on how the electronic world questions and changes categorization systems versus the emerging strategies of tagging. He establishes a fine line of explanation on how the seemingly non-systemic naming systems developed mainly through user adaption create new possibilities in adressing and connecting issues and themes. ... The signal loss ...
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mapping and relating mainstream news
Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. It comes along via pasta and vinegar who comments on it the following: These sort of map are more and more relevant with regard to the increasing amount of information we are dealing with (or at least infojunkies are ...
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.. and sozializing via GPS …
via near near future comes a tool Rebecca Anema has developed: Social GPS – a J2ME application runs on GPS enabled phones. It communicates with the GPS to find out your location and sends the data to the database to create a social map for the people connected to it. Related posts:The emotional houselooking and ...
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visualizing social networks – past and now
danah boyd published information on vizster, a project she developed together with jeffrey heer which allows people to use a playful mode of ethnographic exploration based on the Friendster social networking service. Another interesting appliance is provided by Paul Mutton utilizing visialization modes to show networking structures in Shakespeare’s plays. It uses a tool designed ...
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giving shape to information space
Considering the invisble net of data which influences the constructions of perceptible areas of each of us, searchscapes, a work by Juliana Sato Yamashita, tries to establish a tridimensional map of Manhatten relying on data obtained through the web. The objective is to compare representations of the city’s “physical spaces” and “information spaces”. Taking the ...
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hallucinogenic space
space in the age of non-place in this article in the recent issue of drain with topic on deterritorialization Ian Buchanan takes on a journey from his definition of postmodern uncoded, thus deterritorializing non-places on to the ‘over-coded’ space which tries to reterritorialize the disoriented ‘traveller’: Disorientation brought on by the disembedding process requires in ...