Blogging about blogs and human behavior
Some people might agree with me that Metropolis magazine is one of the best design magazines out there. If you don’t agree, please share something better. I’m always looking for new ideas.
But in the last online issue, Metropolis featured a few websites that have broken into my top favorites folder of websites. I’m not big for sitting and reading a lot, or searching all over the place for news, information, or stories. So when I can get a bunch in a “one-stop-shop”, I love it. And I have to love it for this blog to see if I can change this new-to-me website. love-lines
And just because I haven’t read the ideas behind these other sites, I’m just going to list them and check them out. But here’s the big idea first…
Lovelines is an exploration of human desire.
Through large scale blog analysis, Lovelines illuminates the topography of the emotional landscape between love and hate, as experienced by countless normal humans keeping personal online journals.
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Process.
Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour’s most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10×10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
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Phylotaxis is an exploration of the space where science meets culture.
Its structure, derived from the Fibonacci Sequence and closely related to the Golden Ratio, is one of nature’s most elegant. The Fibonacci Sequence is the set of numbers where each number is the sum of the previous two numbers. This simple sequence governs phenomena as diverse as the petal arrangement of roses, the breeding patterns of rabbits, and the shape of our galaxy. It is also evident in the design of the Great Pyramids, the composition of the Mona Lisa, and the construction of Stradivarius violins.
Cool? kind of interesting? do you love it?
