IIW IX as viewed from Twitter
I’m not feeling well, but i can get to “Many Eyes,” so here are some visualizations of the whole corpus of IIW tweets.
The Wordle
The Wordle is useful to find good starting points for using a word tree visualization. (Many Eye’s “tag cloud” is similarly useful and additionally allows exploring the occurrences of use.) I started with “trust” below. You might change the starting word to “salmon” or “webfinger” to see the buzz about those newer initiatives.
Compare to IIW8’s Proceedings from this spring
The discussion about trust frameworks initiated by the Don Thibeau of the OpenID Foundation and Drummond Reed of the Info Card Foundation appears to have made a mark. (Unfortunately comparing twitter to session notes is definitely apples to oranges.)
After the cut, about the people tweeting.I’m not surprised that it looks like most of the tweets were during the Tuesday morning plenary. The unconference format is interactive, while the plenary format has folks moving their interaction to social media.
Top eleven tweeple, preceded by total number of tweets:
13 Steve_Holcombe (Steve Holcombe) 13 ragavan (ragavan) 14 chrismessina (Chris Messina) 15 paulosman (Paul Osman) 22 ryazwinski (Rick Yazwinski) 24 anilsaldhana (Anil Saldhana) 24 judico (judi) 25 mwhelm (mwhelm) 27 _nat_en (Nat Sakimura) 27 paulmadsen (Paul Madsen) 29 windley (Phil Windley) 75 DrErnie (Ernest Prabhakar)
The network graph is fun but time consuming to play with:
The scatterplot may actually be more revealing of roles and interaction patterns:
May 18th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
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