One of the emerging issues with traditional graphic facilitation is this: How best do we integrate the ideas generated in collaborative sessions into a dynamic, visual and usable format?
Digg Labs has created a mash-up between Digg posts (user-generated comments on news and blog posts) and a swarm-like, dynamically-generated network diagram.
(A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source--for example Google Maps, Amazon lists, Wikipedia, etc--into an integrated experience.)
From Wikipedia:
Digg is a news website with an emphasis on technology and science articles. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.
From Digg Labs:
Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories submitted every day, so good material can sometimes fly by before you even know it.
These interactive visualizations look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities.
Digg Stack shows diggs occuring in real time on up to 100 stories at once. Diggers fall from above and stack up on popular stories. Brightly colored stories have more diggs.The visualization has three modes: all activity, popular, and newly submitted stories.
Digg Swarm draws a circle for stories as they're dugg. Diggers swarm around stories, and make them grow. Brightly colored stories have more diggs.The visualization has three modes: all activity, popular, and newly submitted stories.
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