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februari 16, 2004
InfoVis: Look at Blogosphere
Weblog visualisation uses spatial metaphors like that of the world map or the underground lines of a city. Something so apparently unlinked to localisation requires it in order to establish a reference(?).
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What still fascinates me is the fact that the type of visualisation chosen for something apparently so unlinked to localisation as a weblog (that, in principle it doesn’t matter if it’s located in Cienfuegos or in Singapur) is precisely an urban and spatial visual metaphor like the underground map is. Although the underground map is an example of representing connectivity, something very central to weblogs, the adscription to a particular station is a very spatial reference.
Posted by hakank at februari 16, 2004 11:17 EM Posted to