He Said/She Said
I know it’s been a few days since I last posted a link from IA and you’re all jonesin’. Happily, there was a link to the very cool cyclone.soc today.
The project maps textual conversation taken from the political and religious newsgroups to the isobars of a dynamic, interactive weather visualization of hurricanes – whose complex structures are used to visualize the conversational churn and eddies of the newsgroup conversations.
I think it’s very cool that they’re showing just how much people talk right past each other in political or religious conversations. A cool next step would be be to show some class of conversation where this doesn’t happen. Now they just need to find one….