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FeedVis: a deeper tagcloud for edublogs

Tagclouds have value, but, as I’ve written before, they’ve a number of shortfalls as well.  I’ve just finished my attempt to remedy some of these problems: FeedVis.  It’s an animated tagcloud that lets you compare word frequencies accross different time periods and authors, then check out the posts that used the words.  The demo is [...]

PrezDebatr 2.0! Beta!

Google is transforming the way we watch a political debate.  This Google Blog post demonstrates how viewers of the VP debate earlier this month made Google searches like “clean coal” and “define:maverick” spike as candidates spoke.  Without question, these viewers are experiencing something much richer than what would have been possible fifteen years ago.
But why [...]