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Google Search Plus Your World; seems to be the next big move in a long and painful war

Philip Man | 14 January 2012, 7:49 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

So, what is going on on the interwebs? Well, in the social and search segment, things are getting heavily mixed up. Google finally uses its monopoly to push Google+ with its Search Plus Your World. Basically, the search results will get personalised even more than before, based on your G+ account. These personalised results will appear in the organic search results. Next to that, if you search for a person or brand, Search Plus Your World will show G+ accounts before Facebook Pages or Tweets. I can hear you say ‘duh, obvious move’, however, lot of people act surprised and start panicking. Strange.

Narrative Structures in Data Visualizations to Improve Storytelling

Philip Man | 03 May 2011, 9:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Interactive data visualization has emerged as a complete new field within journalism. Large editorials like The New York Times, The Guardian, the Economist, the Washington Post all have special teams dedicated to data visualizations only. However, in the recent years, the storytelling potential of data visualizations has been debated.

What Data Visualization Can Learn from Game Design

Philip Man | 19 April 2011, 9:38 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

When reading articles and books on data visualization, the focus is often on ampiflying cognition by using external (visual) aids. In this blogpost I attempt to conduct a kind of meta-analysis on data visualization by looking beyond the content of the visualization and concentrating more on the intrinsic motivations of the user.

Data Visualisation: World’s Facebook Friendships

Philip Man | 14 December 2010, 4:29 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Wondering what a visualisation containing a few dozen million friendships on Facebook would look like?

Paul Butler thought of the same and took a shot. He says that visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. Local friendships was of…

War 1.0: The Internets Fight Back. Pirate Bay Helps His Friend Wikileaks

Philip Man | 08 December 2010, 12:47 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

It may be clear that Wikileaks is under heavy attack. Established (governmental) institutions are doing everything they can to boycot Wikileaks by cutting every source they have such as internetservers and even money funds. Including is Paypal who has deleted the Wikileaks account in an attempt to silence and destroy the site.

The Internets fight…

Is Google Going To Ruin The E-reader’s Party?

Philip Man | 19 October 2010, 9:15 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

“Books are among the most beautifully engineered, and human-engineered, components in existence, and they will continue to be functionally important within the context of man-computer symbiosis.”

The above quote is from Joseph Licklider stated in his famous article ‘Man-Computer Symbiosis’ written in 1960. However, seeing how increasingly more books are getting digitized and the number of digitally published books is still growing, it is save to say that his romantic paper vision did not come true. Yet, he did understand the importance of the computer

Tweet, Tweet, Twitter Journalism

Philip Man | 13 October 2010, 7:50 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

The role of the journalist has been changed, or some would argue that it is not there anymore. How is democracy functioning with all the social media around us? Twitter is a powerful tool for politicians to get in contact with the public, but where is the journalist?

Please publish my thesis and make it true

Philip Man | 07 October 2010, 2:55 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

We were told to start a Wikipedian adventure. Create an account and contribute to the knowledge of the world. The English Wikipedia has almost 3,5 million entries, so coming up with a term that no one has thought of writing about seems to be a great challenge. Luckily for me, I have been writing and thinking a lot about a specific way to study the personal data retrieved from social networking sites, which is called post-demographics. It is a new way, beyond the occasional demographics, to assess and define people and guess what, no Wikipedia entry has been made for it!