Curiouser and Curiouser! on visualization http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic visualization Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb TouchGraph GoogleBrowser Sat, 06 Jul 2002 14:35:07 +0100 <P><A href="http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/route.cgi?id=1575939">3. TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.00 (12.1 points)</A>. touchgraph googlebrowser ... TouchGraph ... The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser [<A href="http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/">( blogdex : recent )</A>]</P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><FONT color=red>»</FONT> Interesting to look at but I'm not sure of the practical applications for this yet.</P> <P>What does a visualization of these backlinks tell you?</P> <P>Why is it useful to be able to visualize these particular networks?</P> <P>Are there useful metrics that can be applied to give conrete information?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P></BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000101.html Klogs for project visualization Thu, 08 Aug 2002 23:01:45 +0100 <H3>Envisioning projects a la klog?</H3> <P>How can weblogs contribute to project visualization? </P> <P>Annotation. </P> <OL> <LI>Associate&nbsp;each project post with one or more tasks, issues, milestones, and deliverables on a given project. <LI>Enable a few extra attributes for a post: Red/Yellow/Green&nbsp;Priority (U.S. cultural bias).&nbsp; <LI>Create a view into a team's weblog posts organized by the <A href="http://www.4pm.com/articles/work_breakdown_structure.htm">work breakdown structure</A>, another by priority &nbsp;</LI></OL> <P><STRONG>PM is about the conversation </STRONG>more than formal modeling. It is how we come to appreciate project dreams and know project reality. We discover our colleagues' capabilities and limits. We negotiate commitments. We make the thousand mid-course corrections to the project plan. My <A href="http://dijest.editthispage.com/tools/pm/">project communication templates</A> help you script some of those conversations. </P> <P>But conversation is narrative and auditory. How do we get the best characteristics of project conversation into visual media? Into electronic visual media? </P> <P>Thanks to experience designer&nbsp;<A href="http://www.minid.net/archives/000588.php#a000588">Diego Lafuento</A> for the Tufte pointer. </P> <P align=right><FONT color=teal>&nbsp;[aka </FONT><A class=navigatorLink href="http://dijest.com/aka/categories/design/"><FONT color=teal>design</FONT></A><FONT color=teal>]</FONT></P> <P>[<A href="http://dijest.com/aka/">a klog apart</A>] [<A href="http://home.netcom.com/~luskr/weblog/radio/categories/kLogs/">Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs</A>]</P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>» This is an interesting idea which I need to think about some more.</P> <P>The idea of klogs integrating with other systems already has me interested and this adds a new dimension.</P> <P>This inspires another post.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P></BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000273.html Sing me a blog Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:18:16 +0100 <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992757">Radio Wishlist - Hearing blogspace.</A>. <P>From <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/">NewScientist</A>: <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992757"><STRONG>Musical approach helps programmers catch bugs</STRONG></A><STRONG>.</STRONG> Professors developed a system that automatically converts Pascal source code into simple "music".&nbsp;</P> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite>Can we mine RCS community servers, blogs and posts for&nbsp;metadata to compose a live music track? </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Help me tell posts/sources apart. Help wade through hundreds of feeds and thousands of posts in a newsreader. </P> <UL> <LI>Use popularity, link density, post length, freshness, Flesch and other readability statistics, comment thread length</LI></UL> <P>Help me find gems. </P> <UL> <LI>Connections with my blog, the relevance of this source's last 50 posts to my last 50 posts. </LI></UL> <P>This is not audio blogging so much as blog visualization. Cool. Something to do after DayPop and blog SNA become blasé. </P> <P><EM>I sing the blogspace electric.</EM></P> <P>[<A href="http://dijest.com/aka/">a klog apart</A>]</P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><FONT color=red>»</FONT> It's a lovely idea.</P> <P>How do you turn ideas into music?</P></BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000527.html