Blog network as an impressionist painting
Since Lilia is having difficulty posting to her blog while traveling, I am going to take the liberty of blogging a thought she had as we walked around the Art Institute of Chicago's Impressionist collection.
A single blog post is a spot of color in a Seurat painting or a dash of color from Monet. A single weblog taken as a whole over time might paint a small picture or it might reveal some color gradations - more likely it will reveal many patches of a larger canvas. But when you stand back from that single post or that single website, the picture begins to reveal itself in the writings of all the other bloggers (and websites and forums) with whom the individual interacts. I believe this is what Anjo Anjewierden is doing with his visualizations of blogs as Visual Settlements.
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Jack Vinson :"cit"Since Lilia is having difficulty posting to her blog while traveling, I am going to take the liberty of blogging a thought she had as we walked around the Art Institute of Chicago's Impressionist collection. Read More
Oops, I forgot to add "with Lilia" to the previous comment. Sorry about the confusion.
I am, of course, open to discussing the Visual Settlements idea with each and everyone. But as I developed it after reading Lilia and Stephanie's paper on Virtual Settlements, I would first like to discuss with them.
Ever since BlogWalk2 I thought of the possibility to adapt the Open Space technology for being used online. Of course, it wasn't the same - a lot of its special flavour would have been lost, but still... Read More
Ever since BlogWalk2 I thought of the possibility to adapt the Open Space technology for being used online. Of course, it wasn't the same - a lot of its special flavour would have been lost, but still... Read More
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Jack, Glad to know Lilia made it to Chicago. The "Visual Settlements" idea is much deeper than you suggest (and please take out the et al. in the post). I would like to discuss privately.