info viz octane

Speaking of if:book, they’re running out another version of Gam3r 7h3ory. They want visualizations of the text, and, by visualizations they mean:

…some graphical representation of the text that uses computation to discover new meanings and patterns and enables forms of reading that print can’t support. Some examples that have inspired us:

- Brad Paley’s Text Arc
- Marcos Weskamp’s Newsmap
- Fernanda Viegas’ Wikipedia “History Flow”
- Chirag Mehta’s US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
- Kushal Dave’s Exegesis
- Magnus Rembold and Jurgen Spath’s comparative essay visualizations in Total Interaction
- Philip DeCamp, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Jethran Guiness, Deb Roy: “Gist Icons” (pdf)
- CNET News.com’s The Big Picture
Visuwords online graphical dictionary
- Christopher Collins’ DocuBurst (pdf)
- Stamen Design’s rendering of Kate Hayles’ Narrating Bits in USC’s Vectors
- Brian Kim Stefans’ The Dreamlife of Letters
- Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

This is what I like, see.  This is what bibliometry is growing up to be.

no ghostfeet in dragon country

Ran across this great little site at if:book… Turns out, I’m blocked in China too.

physical/virtual realities

Libraries gonna lead, or not?

This here is a stone-age version of where we’re going.  Format (and medium, in that sense) don’t really matter.  All that jazzy McLuhan stuff, forget it.  Physical and virtual slide into and out of each other, into / out of devices / platforms.  For chrissakes, you’ll half-be an e-book yrself.  Get over it.  It’s the “augmented” reality, the kirkyan world you’ll be working with.

So, start with lower-stakes.  Start with “books” rather than bodies.