Future of News: Seeing News Conversations

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Presentation at the Princeton University Future of News workshop about data visualisation, journalism and interactivity. It takes a look at current visualisations of networks and attention of social media tools such as Twitter, last.fm and Digg and how they might be used to improve interaction on news sites.

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SEEING NEWS CONVERSATIONS

Helping everyone find wisdom in the crowds

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

Arthur MillerLondon Observer

November 26, 1961

Can our communities and conversations scale?

Make the mass manageable, interesting and even entertaining

Help people find conversations

Help people find each other

Higher Ed’s Helping Hand

Thanks for photosPhotos from Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution licence

Conversation by Parastoo

Hookah and conversation by prakhar

Crowded. People/SQft ratio- 1.5/1 by akaalias

Crowds by by James Cridland

From icanhascheezburger.com

leef I alonze by Brad

Kevin Anderson, Guardian blogs editorkevin.anderson@guardian.co.uk

http://blogs.guardian.co.ukhttp://strange.corante.com

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