Comments on: BBC – Subject (Tag) Cloud http://www.craigbellamy.net/2006/11/17/bbc-subject-tag-cloud/ digital humanities, web 2.0, eResearch... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:27:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Andrew Garton http://www.craigbellamy.net/2006/11/17/bbc-subject-tag-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-11311 Andrew Garton Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:50:25 +0000 http://www.craigbellamy.net/2006/11/17/bbc-subject-tag-cloud/#comment-11311 i saw a presentation of a 3d navigational tool much like this quite a number of years ago. it was a lot more effective. it was an MIT project that david cox had visited during his first visit there. there were two forms of content being used, the end result being a cube like space that one could explore through horizontal and vertical axis, including forward and back motion. content used for the trial included 1) stock market data, and 2) common words, terms and phrases appearing the entire works of shakespeare. it was so much more impressive than what the BBC have done with a flash engine... there is no possibility of going "back" once one has gone forward. perhaps they have taken the weasel term "going forward" to an extreme, meaning that there is no going back once we're on the forward trajectory... -ag. i saw a presentation of a 3d navigational tool much like this quite a number of years ago. it was a lot more effective. it was an MIT project that david cox had visited during his first visit there.

there were two forms of content being used, the end result being a cube like space that one could explore through horizontal and vertical axis, including forward and back motion.

content used for the trial included 1) stock market data, and 2) common words, terms and phrases appearing the entire works of shakespeare.

it was so much more impressive than what the BBC have done with a flash engine… there is no possibility of going “back” once one has gone forward. perhaps they have taken the weasel term “going forward” to an extreme, meaning that there is no going back once we’re on the forward trajectory…

-ag.

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