Archive for the ‘World’ Category

Twingly Screensaver

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Twingly Screensaver is an interesting visualisation of blogosphere activity. It renders a turning globe with blog activity spiking out from different parts of the world. It reminds me a bit of Mapped Up.

Traditional feed aggregators are still a lot more powerful for churning through news than this. But this kind of visualisation could be useful as an adjunct for trend watching. They should really allow you to keyword filter Twingly Screensaver.

(It requires Windows and OpenGL but works OK in Parallels.)

Your Question to the World

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Dropping Knowledge is an interesting idea that aims to let citizens of the world raise their issues, stepping around governments. Anyone can ask a question, raise an issue. Allianz is backing it so there could be some practical follow up on ideas. I asked:

How do we balance the self with the public?