NetDynam 2.0

Every once in awhile I like to just sift through the grist that is being processed on the great wide interweb and take a gander at trends and events that feel like they are going to be important building blocks in the near future.

To this I add a first level of links that allow further exploration of what this technology is about and what it is linked to:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/24645/page1/

So we have a new way to manipulate data that allows a different insight to emerge from massive amounts of information.

The television series CSI and its geographical offshoots have always pushed technological advances with their fancy computer graphics, image enhancing and hand or voice controlled computer displays. Now we see the next steps. One truism that has prevailed from the early days of computer use is that the greater the capacity of the system the larger and more sophisticated projects than can then be undertaken. There’s a problem in the programming industry with its much larger programs and applications where the coder/developer can no longer hold the whole picture in their mind. These two tools alone have implications for that entire paradigm.

The charge into Cyberspace has been blunted by technology that is not up to the word and idea visions of William Gibson et al nor the movie maker’s spin ala the Matrix.

Technological advancements are accelerating and convergence is a growing force. My smartphone is the end result of this convergence. The former incarnation required a large physical box connected to a wire based network, a camera, a video camera, a library, a typewriter, an entire postal system, a boombox, a tape recorder, a bookstore, a video store plus many, many more separate systems and infrastructures.

A lazy Sunday that has brought some new insights to my daily ruminations. To sum up I wish to drag you a bit sideways into my mind space and I offer as a final tidbit this piece:

http://spiffy.ci.uiuc.edu/~kline/Stuff/internet-rant.html/

Okay, there are flowers in my yard too but not so edible.

There is an hour or so of fun to be had following this story around, it’s new and trendy:


http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples

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I’ll leave you to decide about what Stephen said.


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Another perspective but process.

Myspace and Facebook are collecting participants on huge scales that various mediums before them took a lot longer to accomplish.

I’ve just stumbledupon, my new favorite hobby by the way, a reference which is niggling in the back of my mind making me feel this is part of the answer to what Twittering is going to evolve into.

http://www.jacketflap.com/megablog/index.asp?Year=2009&Month=03&Day=05&postid=314226

I’m looking at the word clouds and this sort of fits in sideways. Maybe I should have done a word cloud myself but I wanted people to look at it, think about it and perhaps extrapolate a bit on tools of the future.

Okay, I’ll share my creative vision of this example such as it is:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/723222/Twitter_Literary_Agents

I like this little echo feature in that it gives a very quick impression about what is up and about on ND2.0 with nod to volume as a discriminator.