Darren Shaw and others (Emerging Technology Services, IBM Hursley) contribute to the blog, raising the eight bar. It is written by group of techies working in and around IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK. They get together regularly for tea and to chat so they decided to start this blog to record highlights of their conversations and activities. They claim to be adding a bit of UK flavour to it. I spent a year working on a technical project in Staines, just outside London, so I will look forward to their interpretations.
Tomoaki Sawada pointed me to a post that Darren did on Blog Visualization at IBM. As Darren said, “showing pictures of the people commenting, scaled to represent the strength of the link between that person and the blog. More comments, in both directions, strengthens the relationship and makes the picture bigger. It’s also more personal, as each IBM blogger gets their own page with pictures of all their connections.” Tomoaki Sawada of IBM UK pointed me to this. There is a nice picture with the post which shows what he did. As he wrote, it is nice to see pictures of your main blog contacts all on one page.
Another tool for looking at the networking between blogs is iQuest. They have a software suite that can “analyze anything with words or symbols – articles, web pages, reports, memos, e-mails, telephone call logs, transcripts, message boards, blogs, survey responses and more – to show who is talking to whom, what they talk about, when they talk and where those conversations are taking place.” It contains a very useful visualization capability that also shows these relationships over time. A while back they did a visualization of who links to my blog and who links to these linkers and I could watch a movie of how these patterns emerged over time.
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