Presentation at the Princeton University Future of News workshop about data visualisation, journalism and interactivity. It takes a look at current visualisations of networks and attention of social media tools such as Twitter, last.fm and Digg and how they might be used to improve interaction on news sites.
2. “A good newspaper, I suppose, is
a nation talking to itself.”
Arthur Miller
London Observer
November 26, 1961
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7. Can our communities and
conversations scale?
Make the mass manageable,
interesting and even entertaining
Help people find conversations
Help people find each other
21. Thanks for photos
Photos from Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution licence
Conversation by Parastoo
Hookah and conversation by prakhar
Crowded. People/SQft ratio- 1.5/1 by akaalias
Crowds by by James Cridland
From icanhascheezburger.com
leef I alonze by Brad
22. Kevin Anderson, Guardian blogs editor
kevin.anderson@guardian.co.uk
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk
http://strange.corante.com