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!
October 13, 2008 – 1:11 pm
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 [...]