User:Fako Berkers/project2: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:35, 28 March 2011

Sniff, Scrape, Crawl

Wicked Wiki

I started the year with a scraper/tool that can investigate persons on Wikipedia. At the moment it can find collegues based on simularities in categorization. This is a great tool, because if you find one person interesting you are likely to appreciate the others. Investigating Ghandi for instance delivers some unknown Indian rulers and peace activists. I'm still working on improvements. You can read more here.

Attention Arena

I'm interested in how internet regulates our attention. Some subjects may be very interesting, but because the majority doesn't watch these subjects they fade away on the internet being replaced by what others are watching. Attention for some interesting subjects will disappear because of this.

I started to visualize this by putting two

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 I started the year with a scraper/tool that can investigate persons on Wikipedia. At the moment it can find collegues based on simularities in categorization. This is a great tool, because if you find one person interesting you are likely to appreciate the others. Investigating Ghandi for instance delivers some unknown Indian rulers and peace activists. I'm still working on improvements. You can read more [[wickedwiki|here]].
-===Youtube playlist===
+===Attention Arena===
+I'm interested in how internet regulates our attention. Some subjects may be very interesting, but because the majority doesn't watch these subjects they fade away on the internet being replaced by what others are watching. Attention for some interesting subjects will disappear because of this.
+I started to visualize this by putting two