http://www.discoursearchitecture.com collecting instances of communication formats and digital culture Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:42:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en These are incredible. Stefanie Posavec visualized Kerouac's On The Road in a really clean, incredible way. Using variables of sentence length as well as topic categories of her own construction, she can give you a bird's eye view of the book. And she has used the same dataset in several ... http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=18 An article about Helium.com, a site that pays a authors for individual pieces, basically creating a market for spec writing, linking buyers and sellers. Similarities to ohmynews.com? Evidence that small rewards for knowledge sharing can work? Standards? Quality? Comparisons to code sites that assess demand for a script, then commission ... http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=17 from: http://whereistand.com/Help/AboutTheCompanyWhereIstand is an online community that organizes Internet content by opinions and affiliations for searching and comparing. Driven by our members, whereIstand's mission is to reliably present the stands taken by public figures and organizations as well as encourage users to weigh in with their own opinions. Using our comparison engine, whereIstand users can ... http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=16 I stumbled across this designer's blog in the course of research for a project. I really like her prediction about Facebook. I am of the opinion that Facebook is the next Myspace, which was the next Friendster, and on down the line (was AOL the first of this genre?!). At ... http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=15 Semapedia.org is a project that allows users to tag places with a cell phone scannable barcode. Cue DIY geo-tagging... http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=14 What a great site! They have a number of things happening, but most interesting is to look at their Global SchoolHouse Projects Database. They have a series of projects occurring at any one time, so it's pretty easy to look at several examples of live collaborations that are happening across ... http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=13 An interesting Open Source application that allows you to model a set of data into a social network map. I have not yet had a chance to tinker with it, so I don't know how extensible it is. Have a play http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=9 A pretty complete decision tree of which technology to use for which need: wikis, commercial groupware, videoconferencing, blogs, IMs, or email Also an interesting example of questions used as the guiding format for this case scenario diagram. URL: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/when-to-use-email-when-not-to.html http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=7 this is to see whether all categories are appearing. this post will be deleted http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=6 A cool mapping site with a few different maps to switch through. From the site: Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated every 3 hours with current weather satellite imagery. URL: ... http://www.discoursearchitecture.com/?p=3