TouchGraph is graph visualization tools that has been used to visualize relationships between web pages and blogs. Try their GoogleBrowser. Here is what the graph of the TAPoR site looks like, View image.
BlogStreet : Visual Neighborhood uses TouchGraph to show the neighborhood of a blog.
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Harper’s Magazine for April 2004 has reprinted an essay by Bruno Latour on “The Last Critique” that examines the role of critique. Latour starts by noting how “social construction” has been coopted by the right to undermine calls to deal with global warming. The right uses critical arguments to call good science into question in a way not anticipated by critical theorists. The problem is a general one with the left – what do we do when our methods are used against us? What do we do when criticism and dissent become reactionary?
What I don’t understand is Latour’s turn at the end to Turing. He sees in Turing’s paper on AI a way forward for critique.
Continue reading Latour; The Last Critique
MacWarriors TrailBlazer is a project from Illinois that provides a browser (for Panther) that has a visual history. The visual history shows thumbnails of screens and a graph of your trajectory. Neat. Thanks to Matt and Slashdot.
As always someone else has implemented any good idea. WebCorp: The Web as Corpus is an aggregator like the TAPoRware Googlizer that we are developing. We do more on the post-processing, theirs has other strengths. What can we learn from this tool? (Thanks to Ian Lancashire for this.)
Google has just changed their interface. They now point to a “more” section with more services. Google Labs is one of the new services which has a number of interesting experimental projects including one that allows you to volunteer processing for academic use – like the SETI screen saver, but a generic service. Now they should try a Beacon-like volunteer archiving project. See my note Freenet and Beacon.
Vivisimo Clustering – automatic categorization and meta-search software is a meta search engine with a great outliner like interface that lets you move through lots of hits. They gather hits from other engines and cluster them into a hierarchy that can be browsed. The idea is obvious once you try it for searches where you want to manage lots of hits. Thanks to Matt for this.
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Artdaily.com – The First Art Newspaper on the Net has an extensive list of digital art on the web. Many of the projects are Flash toys.
Another site with links to good designs is The Best Designs.
Your Literary Masterpiece Was Delicious is post in a blog called Idle Words which discusses a cool visualization to SVG that Maciej Ceglowski put together. Another graph of words and characters done in perl and other packages.
A History of Computers is a site that takes a broad view of the history of computers. It includes a page on Ramon Lull and his significance, for example. There aren’t as many entries for modern computing advances, but a good spread over time.
Update: Thanks to Jacinda, I was alerted to the fact that the link above is not longer working. You can still see the site using the Wayback Machine.
StreamLine :: How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces has a nice diagram that explains blogs and pings. This is coutesy of Seb’s Open Research (Note: blog now disappeared). What is missing is how the blogspammers find you and spam your comments.