Sunday, April 28, 2002

my new entry on the meatball wiki JonSchull MeatballWiki | RecentChanges | Preferences | Indices | Categories I'm interested in information visualization issues and think the world is ripe for the development of a general tool for the making data patterns visible. More on this in my "Macroscope Manifesto" Have used graphviz a lot, interested in TouchGraph, AtlasOfCyberspace, etc. Hey, welcome! --Well thanks. By looking at revisions I see that that must have been SunirShah. (Should that have been obvious?)--JS' I'm interested in genes, memes, brains, ideas, software, etc.--systems that develop through differential propagation of sucessful variants. I think this is the Big Story and we desperately need a Big Picture. So I've gotten interested in information visualization issues and think the world is ripe for the development of a general tool for the making data patterns visible. More on this in my ["Macroscope Manifesto"] Have used graphviz a lot, interested in TouchGraph, [Atlas of Cyberspace], etc. Wikis in general, and this MeatballWiki in particular, seem like good laboratories for exploring these issues. Some my thoughts on this kind of thing are at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EvolutionVisualized http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VisualizeTheWiki Wiki:VisualTour LinkGraphView So I'm starting to think about functions that could be well visualized. RecentChanges http://sunir.org/apps/visits.pl (Page Visits to Meatball Wiki) IndexingScheme lists a bunch of good candidates. Including VisitedLink and VisitingLink LinkGraphView (and CategoryInformationVisualization) And of course, like everyone else, I have some ideas about what might make Wikis better. WebLogs?. There should be an automatic weblogging feature for each person. That is, while I'm happy to have my wiki-writing refactored beyond recognition, I'm also interested in maintaining a diary-like record of what I was trying to say. What I will do today, for example is turn this entry into an entry on my own weblog at http://radio.weblogs.com/0104369/ But that feels like something that could be made "automagic". I see some discussion of something similar at WritersLog. Outline Support There should be a way be to show or hide sub entries (like this paragraph and the previous one beginning "There should be a way..." Conversations would be easier to track if subtle font colors, for example, were used to automatically color code authorship, of, say a single-authored sentence. CategoryHomePage MeatballWiki | RecentChanges | Preferences | Indices | Categories Edit text of this page | View other revisions | Search MetaWiki Last edited April 28, 2002 10:11 pm (diff) Search: comments? [] 10:55:09 PM     CarpetBaggers go home ...Even as cable modem companies are knocking hundreds of thousands of subscribers offline, untethered forced-leisure gangs are committing random acts of senseless wirelessness, armed with cheap-like-borscht 802.11b cards and antennae made from washers, hot glue, and Pringles cans. The Community Wireless movement is a fantastic example of how something unreliable can be cool, useful, self- sustaining, and utterly devoid of revenue potential. Wireless ISPs like Mobilestar charge a small fortune for network access at airport lounges and Starbucks in a handful of cities, and are still going broke, while a ride in a taxi through midtown Manhattan with an iBook will yield a new open network at every stoplight. Mobilestar's $60/ month gets you a service that is only slightly better than what a mass of public-spirited (or security-impaired) WiFi users have accomplished without even trying. It's just too damned expensive to provide the kind of reliability that stress-feeding mobile execs demand. Meanwhile, the cranky, kludgey world of open 802.11 base-stations gains ground every day. It'll never be good enough for people who use phrases like "mission-critical," but it'll be just fine for the rest of us. ... comments? [] 9:58:21 AM

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