A Mapmaking Social
Posted by goodmind on August 7th, 2008
Visualizing a complex process is typically the best way to understand it. By the same token, visualizations can also reveal a greater degree of complexity than expected. This appears to be the case with mapping social media usage;
Andrew Shuttleworth, a social media junky living in Japan, thought it might be helpful to try to map his social media usage. The result is a staggering view of how information we put on the web flows (via ReadWrite Web).
On his blog, Shuttleworth reflects on the endeavor and concludes that;
Overall, it was very helpful to see an overview of how my online information flows…[it shows] the complexity consumers are dealing with in the Web 2.0 world, and it will be interesting to see how the leading services help us deal with this. Facebook is of course the best example to date.
But why wait to see how it all turns out? Maybe if more people map and share their own social media usage, similar to Shuttleworth, someone with a programming background will be able to take this behavioral data, and develop an acceptable solution sooner rather than later.
We’ll be playing cartographer over on Dabbleboard, a free online whiteboard, and we’ll try to post our own map by the end of the day. Feel free to create and send us your visualization as well, and we’ll add it to the collection.
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