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 et. al. are doing with their visualizations of blogs as Visual Settlements.
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Have no idea when this post will get online – Radio still doesn’t behave :(
Tags: blog communities, metaphorsArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/01/20.html#a1481; comments are here.
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