Show me the vectors!
A fun space to think about it if you’re into both design and the Internets is the visualization of folksonomical relationships — tags, the relationships between tags, and the relationships between the data they tag. Anyway, I ain’t no expert, I’m just the nuts and bolts variety of software guy, but I’m always intrigued when reading about this stuff.
- Dave Weinberger (notable most recently for Everything is Miscellaneous) with his take the new Technorati
- One of my favorite conference talks, Shirky on this problem
- Some attempts at showing this kind of stuff
- Randomly, Tufte, one of my heros
- And last but not least, a decent book from a few years ago, by a Brooklynite no less, that I have to assume is the inspiration for Weinberger’s title.