visualization
Test: Live Blog with CoverItLive
What you see below is a test of the live blogging tool CoverItLive. It looks promising indeed:
Of course this was just a test run without anything to cover, so it’s all dummy copy. I’d be curious to hear what you think about it, though: Would you like this kind of format, or rather stick to […]
Traditional media goes mobile streaming: Gannett & Mogulus?
As Techcrunch announced today, video streaming service Mogulus just got a big of extra cash ($10 million). What interesting here is who that money is coming from: Gannett, a major U.S. based publisher and very much a traditional media outlet:
[Garnett] publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA TODAY, and nearly 900 non-daily publications. (…) The company […]
Can you trust the information in Wikipedia? Wikitrust tells you.
A very interesting project going by the name Wikitrust (part of the Wikipedia Quality Initiative) analyzes if information on Wikipedia is trustworthy. In order to do this, Wikitrust computes both the authors’ and the individuals words’ trustworthiness. The more contributions an author made and the more edits they survive, the better; in case of words, […]
Obama Berlin speech word cloud
Tim Bonnemann (Plansphere) ran Barack Obama’s Berlin speech through Wordle. A neat way to visualize the speech:
Netiquette in one picture
A lot of smart stuff has been written about netiquette and behavior in social networks, blogs etc. But when all is said and done, it boils down to this:
Photo by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (aka Designswarm)
Presentation: “What the f**k is social media?”
Always a big fan of neat visualizations, particularly of complex topics, I found I really liked this 101 on social media by Marta Z. Kagan. Titled “What the f**k is social media“, Marta gives a quick, easy-to-understand rundown of the basic terminology paired with well-presented thoughts on why social media matter:
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Video: White Label eCampaign for U.S. President
In this fun little (supposedly viral) video campaign by the marketers of vanksen culturebuzz you can get personalized campaigning coverage for your candidacy for U.S. president. Consider it a viral meta e-campaign. The one I created below shows the groundswell support for Dr. Jekyll.
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Global map of Open Educational Resources
Heather Fond (blog), director of iCommons, created this map of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the most notable activists and organizations in the field. This is pretty awesome - check it out:
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I just added Creative Commons International - who else is missing? If you know any organization or activist, please add them to […]
State of the Web Summer 2008
The State of the Web Summer 2008 is a neat visual summary of what has happened this summer on the web so far, in 11 steps by Matthew Inman. I like.
Bits exist to be copied / LIFT Talks
Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management, here filmed at LIFT ‘06. As always it’s a great talk.
(update: I removed the embedded video because it automatically started to play. Please click here to watch Cory […]