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ICWSM 2010 Liveblog, Day 1

Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-10) We will be liveblogging (when possible) from ICWSM 2010, going on now! Keynote: Bob Kraut, CMU implications for community design -offline theories of socialization helpful, not definitive -online communities can build in good socialization practice -e.g. WP welcoming committee Two Types of Commitments to Groups [...]

NodeXL TwitterScope: social media science in a bucket

by Dru! Can useful observations be made by studying the social media sea one bucket at a time? NodeXL has data import “spigots” for pulling social networks out of several social media systems including Twitter, YouTube, flickr, and email. Twitter networks of follows and followers, reply and mentions can be extracted based on either a [...]

Boardtracker adds AuthorLine visualizations to threaded discussion search service

Boardtracker is a search engine and reporting service for threaded discussions. Recently, the BoardTracker folks implemented a visualization of author activity overtime that was inspired by work Fernanda Viegas and I did in 2003/2004 called “AuthorLines”. AuthorLine visualizations represent the weekly rates and nature of contribution from a single author over the span of a [...]

Visualizing the connections among twitter users who tweet “oil spill” with NodeXL

The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a topic of great concern to many people in twitter. This is the map of connections among people who tweeted the term "oil spill". There are lots of isolated authors,…

Data Bank or Data Pimp: choosing the future of social media repositories

or ? Are social media sites data banks, secure repositories of personal assets, or data pimps, soliciting intimate exposure for profit? I think these services need to choose. I notice that the setting for who can see what in various systems…

Contrasting “ashtag” with “ashcloud” Twitter networks with NodeXL

The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland has created disruption of air traffic around the world and particularly through Northern Europe. A similar eruption of tweets has followed, focused around a series of hastags including "#ashtag", "#ashcloud", and "#volcano". The #ashtag…