ThoughtMesh Author's Statement
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Saved by 2 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-04-27
- Lspiro on 2008-05-28 - Tags publishing , tagging , visualization , scholarly_communication , digital_scholarship
- Ludigertruda on 2008-04-27 - Tags knowledge sharing , thoughtmesh , research_publishing
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we wanted a system that was distributed-
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Tag clouds are new organizational structures emerging in today's distributed publication communities, most famously in popular social networking sites like del.icio.us, Technorati, and Flickr. In a typical tag cloud, clickable words corresponding to user-defined categories mill or float about on a page, their position and prominence determined by an emergent count of the number of times they have been used rather than by some top-down authorial decision. Clouds allow for overlapping, not dichotomous categories. They visualize relevance as a swarming or bubbling rather than a roll-call or rank.
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signal-to-noise
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This would prevent the circular "rich get richer" bias of many interfaces,
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as I've argued elsewhere, clouds of influence are a much more nuanced way to recognize achievement in academic networks than journal "impact factors." Giving an essay's connections visual form could help evaluators understand the Big Picture of that author's influence within an academic subculture and the broader online community.
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