Archive for the ‘visualization’ Category
The Iranian Blogosphere Mapped
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Intelfusion posts on the Harvard study of the Persian blogosphere. Found at Jeffreycarr on Twitter.
(I figured that so long as my margin was temporarily messed up on Explorer from Cameron’s text file – why not go with a big visual? In for a penny, in for a pound! Should be ok on Firefox etc.)
An Amazing Web Tool
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Much like Zenpundit himself.
On a serious note, I really enjoyed the presentation of Sliderocket by Dave Davison at Thoughts Illustrated. Sliderocket would appear to be a huge leap in dynamic presentation quality that should interest anyone who has do public speaking or briefing (Tom, Steve, John, Shlok…).
Signing up for private beta….
Lie Detecting the Mediasphere: The Scoop on RealScoop
Friday, March 21st, 2008Theofanis D. Lekkas, a longtime Zenpundit reader who comments here occasionally under the handle “TDL“, is in the process of launching a fantastic Web 2.0 start-up, RealScoop.com, currently in Beta. In a nutshell, it’s a mediacentric Youtube mashed up with a voice-stress analyzer lie detector. Any celebrities or politicians you love, hate or love to hate ? See what topics send them off the Richter Scale. A few examples:
Senator Barack Obama
Vice President Dick Cheney
Former Governor Eliot Spitzer
And on a lighter note, Tom Cruise on a deranged rant about psychiatry
This is all in good fun and I wish Theo every success with RealScoop.com but there are interesting implications if this platform were to become as ubiquitous as is youtube or yahoo. Imagine, being a politician or public spokesman and knowing that your every word simply isn’t going to be parsed but run through a voice stress analyzer and transformed into a virally formatted visual clip. How would that change your media strategy ? Your deposition strategy? Being a laconic, strong, silent type might actually come back into style.
TDL may have hit on something here. Feel free to send him any comments when you peruse RealScoop or leave some here – he’s interested in your feedback.
Amusing – John Robb and I featured at Flowing Data
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Blogfriend Charles Cameron spotted this post by Flowing Data that has visualizations of social networking on Twitter.
